Example sentences of "long [subord] [pron] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I know you mean well , love , ’ he wrote , ‘ but Maureen and Chris have managed for so long because they have kept it so low key . |
| 2 | A wag in the crowd quipped that it is so long since they have been in evidence , police enquiries are being hampered because no one can name or describe them . |
| 3 | If they do , it may not be long before we have to pay the price . |
| 4 | Going on again on the tenant farmers , I actually think that er we are very good landlords and I think our our our tenants would rather us keep us as landlords than the private sector , in actual fact we will have no doubt a debate quite soon on that issue when the government makes us sell off all areas of of er th our interests and that one , I will tell you this , I think that some of the members all sides of the fence every side of the fence , have been passionately behind the tenants , if if they 're gon na be sold off by now they 'd have been sold off , but I think it wo n't be far long before we have to take education first , social services first , the elderly before er your side with your government to come forward and say to us we do n't want you interfering with anything like that and being bold business , get rid of , but that 's another debate that will come up later on . |
| 5 | Children are learning to read long before they have any formal reading tuition . |
| 6 | Currently the most widely known ( and also most widely criticized ) theory on the subject is that of Noam Chomsky who has pointed out that , although children have to learn the meanings of individual words from their elders ( which would make language a phenomenon of culture ) , they seem to know how to string words together so as to distinguish sense from nonsense long before they have acquired any substantial vocabulary . |
| 7 | problems in the development of language and communication , including poor comprehension ; inability to express speech or no speech ; inability to understand non-verbal gestures , and a tendency to repeat or ‘ echo ’ the remarks of others , often long after they have been made . |
| 8 | Bad policies in the past may continue to cause problems , long after they have been replaced by good ones . |
| 9 | Ann adds : ‘ Even if we lose the appeal and the girls have to see out the full term in prison , I shall still be campaigning to prove their innocence long after they have been released . |
| 10 | Consequently , norm development occurs over very long periods , and often very old behaviour patterns are preserved long after they have ceased to be relevant . |
| 11 | Although libraries may classify new stock by the latest edition of DC , earlier editions remain important because many libraries are reluctant to reclassify , and thus leave stock classified according to earlier editions long after they have been superseded . |
| 12 | Even quite old children will sometimes be seen at the breast , long after they have begun to eat an adult diet , sucking not so much for sustenance as for emotional consolation . |
| 13 | ‘ And it is not just a one off thing — it must be a programme that is still in place long after we have a democratic government here . ’ |
| 14 | That may sound emotional , but we are mere custodians of the game , which will be there long after we have departed . |
| 15 | Francois Dupeyron , first-time writer-director , is a natural talent ; his images linger in the mind long after you have left the cinema . |
| 16 | If you are going to be lightly humorous , skimming like a butterfly , then you will be ill served by a plot that is impossibly ingenious or a plot that has at its centre something too grave to be dealt with light-heartedly when , long after you have embarked on the actual writing , the moment comes to reveal all . |
| 17 | ‘ Because they will be in Nice long after you have gone away . |
| 18 | They will be in place long after you have gone , like guardians of the future . |
| 19 | It was as if nothing special had happened the night before — no more than a bad dream that stays at the back of your mind long after you have woken up . |
| 20 | Long though I have lived , I never understand better as years pass . |
| 21 | So long as we have language , he argued , we simply can not conceive it . |
| 22 | ‘ Nothing is enough , so long as we have no hand in government . ’ |
| 23 | Mr Skinner insisted : ‘ There will always be a need for socialism , whether in Britain or anywhere else , so long as there are millionaires living in the lap of luxury and other people living in cardboard boxes , so long as we have a system which allows the poor countries of the world to hand over $50m to the rich . ’ |
| 24 | So long as we have heat , water , and reciprocal motion , then we shall also have ‘ horse power ’ . ’ |
| 25 | Whatever we want from our lives now — the Booker Prize , a recording contract , a promotion , a Porsche convertible , the girl at the Virgin Megastore checkout desk — we can not possibly have coveted it for as long as we have cherished dreams of football glory , dreams which have remained fundamentally unchanged since childhood . |
| 26 | ‘ The game against Marseille will now be a battle but so long as we have someone like Andy Goram behind us , we feel solid . |
| 27 | Ailing animals , so long as they have a solvent owner in two , are our bread and butter . |
| 28 | So long as they have neighbours within 12″ the Snotlings are not affected by the psychology rules and they do not need to take break tests when they are beaten in hand-to-hand combat . |
| 29 | Notwithstanding the views that have found favour with others I consider this to be a reasonable construction of the statutory provisions and I am comforted in the fact that , apart from an attempt to tax airline employees , which was taken to the special commissioners who decided in favour of the taxpayer , this has been the practice of the Inland Revenue in applying the relevant words where they have occurred in the Income Tax Acts for so long as they have been in force , until they initiated the present cases . |
| 30 | It is not a recent development ; there have been mentally handicapped people for as long as there have been people , and efforts to cope with their presence have been proceeding since the last century . |