Example sentences of "[vb infin] [art] [adv] long [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | → When you think of Fender 's seeming unwillingness to bring the reissues of the Indie-cred Jaguar into this country , Jim , I think we 'll probably wait a very long time before a Bass VI emanates from anywhere other than the Fender Custom Shop — a facility available to the wad-carrying fanatic . |
| 2 | Much of the training was carried out in colleges and the 8-hour course , plus travel , could make a particularly long day for those attending . |
| 3 | A good resolution before you exchange contracts would be to stand back and have a really long look at the wood ! |
| 4 | After all , Germany does have a disturbingly long tradition of attempts to expand and dominate militarily the European continent . |
| 5 | Also , if , by the end of the day , he had not left the house without her permission , she would read an extra long story to him . |
| 6 | These can go a very long way to mollifying those individuals whose journeys are lengthened by traffic-affecting measures . |
| 7 | I was just going to say , I think what you say on full employment , erm , elsewhere they 're keeping wages and pay up is n't it , erm , and I 've known a couple in Telford again , that there 's work there , a new company it 's perfectly easy to take on all the good skilled labour they want , then they say they feel they 're very guilty because they 're poaching it from across the road , the British company has probably been two wages so that the jobs , it does mount up , so I do n't , I , I would like to know more about erm , what the low pay unit would really do to help us , and I look at this eight thousand two hundred and eighty pounds , and I think that would go an awful long way in the Mr Chairman , in helping to keep that going , which creates all the people who leave and get jobs , and good jobs , and get skills , and erm , I , I , it may be if there 's going to be a big budget , eight thousand pounds is not very much , but I , but when you think an individual project like that of course , any sort of traineeship , it 's a lot of money . |
| 8 | The Gaullist conception of state broadcasting would prove an unconscionably long time in dying-in May 1986 Communications Minister Léotard still referred to the need to reduce state control — ‘ la desétatisation de l'audiovisuel ’ . |
| 9 | CANBERRA may seem an awful long way from exchanges on the floor of the House of Commons over the European Monetary System . |