Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] for long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This way it will stay lively for long periods and look much more natural to the fish . |
| 2 | He smoked a lot which hit the hard-worked lungs while the boils surged up out of a weakness in nutrition which , together with the ill-starred Jenkins bones , augured ill for long life and clean living . |
| 3 | His view , however , is implicitly gradualist — ‘ a temporal progressive sequence of changes within an evolutionary lineage ’ — and there is no indication of the extensive palaeontological literature of the past decade suggesting an alternative punctuational view , that species may evolve relatively rapidly and then remain unchanged for long periods . |
| 4 | The identity , however , is converted into a theory of the determination of the price level by assuming : ( a ) that the money supply is determined by the monetary authorities ; ( b ) that the number of transactions is fixed in the short-run because of the classical presumption that the economy operates automatically at full employment ; and ( c ) that the velocity of circulation is also fixed in the short-run because it depends largely on institutional factors ( such as whether workers are paid weekly or monthly ) which themselves tend to remain constant for long periods of time . |
| 5 | Secretive , hard to flush , remaining motionless for long periods . |
| 6 | It was noted in 3.5 that long-term participant observation , as a consequence both of the relationship of trust which is built up and of a person 's inability to remain vigilant for long periods , has the effect of blurring the distinction between covert and overt observation . |
| 7 | Even so , important posts in Dutch diplomacy had sometimes to be filled by second-rate men or go unfilled for long periods . |
| 8 | Because of the time it took to travel , clothes had to stay packed for long periods , and the number of changes needed throughout the day and evening necessitated quantities of clothes which were packed in different shaped dressing cases , boot boxes , hat boxes , umbrella cases , trunks and suitcases . |
| 9 | Catfish tend to stay stationary for long periods making them ideal subjects for photography . |
| 10 | He said it was not usual for patients to be left alone for long periods of time and organisation on the ward involved was usually very good . |
| 11 | At 3 ° C , feeding begins but the animals still remain immobile for long periods . |
| 12 | Unoccupied offices and meeting rooms left unused for long periods need not be heated to the normal level . |
| 13 | If people are kept awake for long periods of time , their drowsiness lessens in the morning and comes on with increased severity in the evening . |
| 14 | A heron stood motionless for long minutes before grandmother-footstepping its way : step — freeze — step — freeze — step — freeze stab ! |
| 15 | Scott stood motionless for long moments , sucking in deep lungfuls of air . |
| 16 | Fen violet seed can lie dormant for long periods until conditions are right ; disturbed peat caused by scrub clearance — or the trampling of cattle . |