Example sentences of "[conj] [vb pp] [prep] long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were executed or sentenced to long periods of forced labour . |
| 2 | The British War Cabinet fully recognised the implications of this , and the likelihood that many would be executed as traitors or sentenced to long terms in prison camps . |
| 3 | This will divert forests from disputed uplands where foresters are frequently held up or defeated in long battles with environment groups . |
| 4 | Culyer et al ( 1988 ) stress that ‘ care will have to be exercised to ensure that very sick and elderly patients are not treated or cared for long distances away from their homes and families ’ . |
| 5 | ( 1988 ) stress that ‘ care will have to be exercised to ensure that very sick and elderly patients are not treated or cared for long distances away from their homes and families ’ [ … ] |
| 6 | An older horse may be quite fit , maybe having been hunted or hacked for long distances . |
| 7 | Drug doses also tend to be higher and given for longer periods . |
| 8 | The sharp bright sunshine , accompanied by cold winds and interspersed with long periods of heavy rain , had at last given way to real spring weather , warm sunshine and feathery showers . |
| 9 | While disgraced former officials during 1989 continued to be convicted and sentenced to long prison terms , particularly in Uzbekistan [ see pp. 36898 ; 37129 ] , in January 1990 , however , three defendants were acquitted on the grounds of " violations of legality " by investigators . |
| 10 | A clamour of conflicting emotions warred within her while her treacherous body arched greedily to every movement he made , answering each speaking gesture as fluently as if used to long practice . |
| 11 | Even fresh food , if stored for long periods , will lose its vitamin content . |
| 12 | Baits need to be anchored well on the bottom and left for long periods and leger tactics are more likely to succeed than the float . |
| 13 | If an aggravation occurs i.e. an intensification of the original symptoms , at the end of treatment , then the doses must be reduced in quantity and repeated at longer intervals , or stopped altogether to see if the symptoms will continue to disappear by themselves . |
| 14 | Every item of clothing you wear , especially your shoes , should have been tried and tested on long runs to ensure there is no danger of an unsuspected seam causing you to chafe . |
| 15 | Most conversational uses of Creole by British-born speakers are short , and embedded in longer stretches of British English . |
| 16 | In the 1970s he was detained without charge or trial for five years and tortured and held for long periods in leg-irons . |
| 17 | Oeppen has continued to investigate the structure of projection models as applied to long runs of data from the past . |
| 18 | However , when observed over long periods , many species are found to be generalist in that individuals of them are capable of taking advantage of ‘ specialist ’ interactions at any one time : the ‘ anachronisms ’ show this , as do the generalized pollinators on islands where plants have ‘ left their pollinators behind ’ , e.g. a cetoniid beetle , Mauseolopsis aldabrensis , visits 58% of all flowering species , native or introduced , of all colours and morphology , on the coral atoll of Aldabra off the African coast , but it shows a remarkably high degree of constancy in its foraging flights . |