Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | The blooms are carried on long stalks and are over an inch across . |
| 2 | No marriage can survive over long distances in the long term , especially if all the effort culminates in the eventual failure to obtain that elusive consultancy . |
| 3 | The Gnomes had gone to considerable trouble ; Culdub and Bith had sat up long hours and consulted books and chronicles and there had been much burning of late candles and worried scurryings to and fro between the Gnomes ' houses in the little mountain village . |
| 4 | They fill their crops and then fly back long distances to feed their young . |
| 5 | This makes the diet difficult to sustain over long periods and management requires the services of a specialist metabolic team . |
| 6 | Unlike their counterparts in the longue durée , they were seen not so much as steady constraints with which societies had to contend over long periods , but as patterns of change which were themselves part and parcel of social life . |
| 7 | Here at last was the starting point for a science that would attempt to explain the present state of the earth and its inhabitants in terms of natural processes acting over long periods of time . |
| 8 | Using grey fondant trimmings , roll out and cut out long strips , 1cm ( ½ inch ) wide , to go around the base of the bus . |
| 9 | Avoid an east-facing situation to prevent frost damage and cut back long growth immediately after flowering . |
| 10 | But then the cells at the tip begin to shoot out long filopodia which make contact with the wall and contract pulling the future gut further in . |
| 11 | From the plinth you look down long rows of white crosses and plain headstones on the far side of the memorial ; some say inconnu , others ‘ A Soldier of the Great War ’ . |
| 12 | It is because collecting the refuse of houses in close proximity , such as terraced houses in the city of Sheffield , costs only one third of what it costs to collect the refuse of houses in the posh south-west of Sheffield , where the houses are spaced out and the collection men have to walk up long drives . |
| 13 | Er I think er it 's easy to talk about taking off two and a half percent here and there , I could probably put forward a number of reasons why it could add on two and a half percent , five percent to the figures and indeed I 'd be very disappointed if at the end of the day , we did n't achieve er greater reductions because once you get out long distance through traffic , er whose prime purpose is to move from A to B as quickly as possible , once you do that it gives you the opportunity then of bringing in the sorts of measures to improve pedestrian safety , er to slow traffic down , introduce traffic calming , which you ca n't do on primary routes . |
| 14 | On the motorway the Safrane rides excellently and is well able to flatten out long amplitude undulation while being equally successful at suppressing smaller bumps , such as expansion joints . |
| 15 | The committee also recommended that the government clarify the rules covering the supply of heat and energy so that anyone planning a CHP scheme would not need to carry out long negotiations with the electricity industry . |
| 16 | Technology made it possible , for after all the major means of transporting bulk produce over long land distances , the railroad , was hardly available before the 1840s . |
| 17 | Fewer students were prepared to undertake the commitment to submit written work on a regular basis , or to study over long periods , and although the number of Article 24(a) Tutorial Classes rose from fourteen in 1947–48 to thirty in 1951–52 as a direct result of the District 's programme for action , the totals for Article 24(b) Sessional classes declined from forty-one to thirty-two over the same period . |
| 18 | Later eighteenth and nineteenth-century cellars are prime candidates for tunnel status ; they are usually stone built in the form of barrel vaults which give the end walls the appearance of plugs which seal off long tunnels — a common feature of such myths . |
| 19 | They require little attention beyond cutting back long canes by about a third in early spring , just as growth begins to stir , and then trimming back any remaining side shoots to no more than three buds , taking out old wood that becomes dark and barky to promote new growth from the base — and , of course , removing the flower trusses as they fade . |
| 20 | Taking one multi-coloured piece at a time , roll out long tubes with your fingers for snakes . |
| 21 | Beside him , his colleague DS Finn was adding to the pollution , blowing out long streams from his Marlboro . |
| 22 | Especially in exposed positions , it is sensible , for example , to trim back long stems and tallish growth in order to reduce the sail effect in wind and the resulting problem called ‘ wind rock ’ . |
| 23 | They were escorted down long corridors — cooled by fans , for the weather was still very warm-by a senior aide , who was French , and by his aide , who was Algerian . |
| 24 | They danced in front of her as she went up Long Field , following Joe and the horse and heaving old broad bean haulms into the cart . |
| 25 | taken on long pole alternating between maggot and caster . |
| 26 | Cattle were no longer taken on long drives , but were delivered by rail and cattle drives were then made illegal . |
| 27 | Unpulsed whistles carry over long distances , which may explain their frequent use among spinner and bottlenose dolphins , who often form large groups , and the absence of these sounds among the less social species . |
| 28 | Mass strandings usually involve whales which migrate over long distances . |
| 29 | One of them is the law of return ; another is diversification — as against any kind of monoculture ; another is decentralisation , so that some use can be found for even quite inferior resources which it would never be rational to transport over long distances . |
| 30 | As Steve Gold pointed out last month , IBM does its best to roll out long lists of third party software houses that are developing OS/2 v 2 software , but I do n't see much , if any , for review . |