Example sentences of "[vb base] [prep] long [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have found that the pupils designated as having moderate learning difficulties that I have worked with can : concentrate for long periods of time ; sustain protracted investigations ; be systematic ; reason logically ; find patterns and relationships ; make and test predictions ; generalise ; record and explain their findings . |
| 2 | In Teheran poor peoples wait in long lines in the snow for paraffin . |
| 3 | If properties let on long leases to tenants of the highest covenant are sold for cashflow or balance sheet enhancement the substance of the group will have been sacrificed for short-term advantage . |
| 4 | It only considers properties let on long leases to blue chip companies . |
| 5 | Now , when I read about Long John in Squire Trelawney 's letter , I had been afraid he might be the one-legged seaman that old Bill had talked about . |
| 6 | Nor could Unionists , who had flocked to the colours in 1914 , accept for long inequality of sacrifice when the nation 's greatest need was manpower . |
| 7 | In form they look like long worms with two small horny shells at one end . |
| 8 | In fact , these two warts are so enlarged that they look like long swellings behind the animal 's eyes , covered with pores through which the poison seeps . |
| 9 | Front doors open onto long balconies with iron railings covered in damp washing and snotty little kids dribbling on your head through the bars . ’ |
| 10 | Older people who have fewer than eight main meals each week , or who go for long periods of the day without food , are considered to be especially at risk . |
| 11 | A shorter half-life of lymphocytes expressing the lower- M r isoforms has also been observed in sheep , whereas cells with a ‘ naive ’ phenotype persist for long periods in mice after adoptive transfer . |