Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | Immediate cord clamping may deprive the infant of placental blood , and previous reports suggest that a long delay may lead to adverse effects due to hypervolaemia . |
| 2 | Similarly , Pound and her colleagues ( 1985 ) found that a long history of depressive illness in a mother , or a combination of depression and personality problems , was associated with problems ( especially of sleeping ) in her children . |
| 3 | on er , on er , oh he sold that a long time ago , he 's built a bungalow now they live |
| 4 | His figure , which was based on a tally kept by victim support groups , was criticized by other experts , who argued that a longer period would have to elapse before such a large number of people could develop cancer . |
| 5 | It was dismissed by other experts , however , who argued that a longer period would have to elapse before sufficient people developed cancer . |
| 6 | It sought a socialist majority in its own right , but most of its leaders believed that a long period of education and propaganda would be necessary before that majority could be secured . |
| 7 | It can be seen that a long list of students ( or any other units ) could be used for a random sample by this means simply by numbering from beginning to end , and this could be done with an automatic increasing numbering stamp . |
| 8 | The neatness comes afterwards ; it gets imposed when a long and laborious and very untidy process is shortcircuited by the observation ( which Dostoevsky himself may never have made ) of a direct link between Stavrogin and the underground man . |
| 9 | He did not believe that a long period of purdah was necessary , and the general rule that such a record could not be published until thirty years after the event was indeed ridiculous , since it has been honoured only in the breach . |
| 10 | That has now been achieved and , although we know that a long road awaits the negotiators , it is refreshing to see the leaders of the Palestinian people at the conference table and to watch their demeanour as they approach the massive problems . |
| 11 | On slaughtering days all the gates were carefully locked and a long wooden ramp placed against the cellar steps . |
| 12 | After a year 's postdoctoral research , including a short spell in Sweden on a British Council award , Worswick decided that a long term career at the bench was not for him . |
| 13 | You will be notified if a longer delay is expected . |
| 14 | You will be notified if a longer delay is expected . |
| 15 | You will be notified if a longer delay is expected . |
| 16 | You will be notified if a longer delay is expected . |
| 17 | It is to be hoped that a longer , sequential text will eventually be discovered : a piece of poetry or prose would test the hypothesis conclusively . |
| 18 | As the men at the windlass rope heaved and a long timber started to rise up and swing , the wheel on the pulley squealed like an injured dog and the man stationed at the top of the wall took a stickful of thick grease from a pot , leaned out , and worked it into the axle . |
| 19 | West gave that a long look but eventually ducked , deciding that East ‘ must ’ hold the ace of diamonds . |
| 20 | She was just about to investigate when a long , shuddering breath from the man at her feet reminded her that it might be as well to remove herself from the scene before the winded assailant recovered enough to take his revenge . |
| 21 | I chose not to buy it that day , so I was interested to see whether a longer look at it would change those initial impressions . |
| 22 | The game has moved on so dramatically that the introduction of only one serve and a longer court has even been mooted . |
| 23 | Soviet officials calculated that a longer time frame would assist the USSR to stabilise a viable and desirable regime in Kabul . |
| 24 | Franz Dornseiff — a German scholar who proved his courage and independence in difficult times — tried hard to persuade us that it was in fact authentic Greek poetry of the sixth century B.C. He also tried to show that a long description of the Jews attributed by Photius to Hecataeus of Miletus was really composed by this late sixth-century writer , and not ( as is generally admitted ) by the younger Hecataeus of Abdera who lived after Alexander . |
| 25 | It recognized that a longer period of detention might also be required in a ‘ small minority ’ of cases concerned with ‘ grave offences ’ . |
| 26 | If I 'd of been there I 'd of flogged that a long while ago and got rid of it |
| 27 | It was clear from the sentences imposed on the other defendants , one of whom was sentenced to three years ' imprisonment , that the sentencer considered that a longer sentence would have been appropriate if the appellant had been over 21 . |