Example sentences of "[vb base] a long [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The agronomists ’ reports on the spring-sowing campaign reveal a long list of mainly unfulfilled bureaucratic resolutions passed down from Moscow . |
| 2 | More often than not the victims have serious medical problems , show a long history of social inadequacy , or are clearly suffering from mental illness . |
| 3 | internal business shuttles but a lot of them are long haul passengers who could n't get a direct flight to their nearest regional airport and with the nineteen ninety three directive liberalising the E C erm or European Union Airways , more and more passengers from the North and the Midlands are going to take a shuttle to Europe not to Heathrow , they are going to fly from Ringway or East Middlesbrough t to Europe and catch a long haul from Charles De Gaulle or Frankfurt and indeed Amsterdam which you probably know is now advertising itself as Britain 's third airport . |
| 4 | Cut a long strip of fondant to wrap around the bottom edge of the ship . |
| 5 | It is my experience that whenever I try to combine shooting and ferreting I wait a long time for the chance of a shot , then there is something else to be done . |
| 6 | Is he aware that even when people are examined , are found to have cataracts and wait a long time for the operation , some of them — such as a 91-year-old constituent of mine — are told that Royal Oldham hospital , which has been granted trust status , does not have the money to provide the necessary medicines and has money to help only the elderly ? |
| 7 | Indulging in litigation may mean that you have to expend substantial sums of money and wait a long time before achieving victory ; to lose could prove very costly . |
| 8 | Consider a long addition of , say , some thirty numbers . |
| 9 | Because I 'm because John Gummer 's responsibilities extend a long way into things like housing and stuff as well do n't they ? |
| 10 | In the hills that side a long valley on the way to Sæbol there is another emergency hut . |
| 11 | Embedded in his initial instructions to Joshua concerning the actions the people are to take on the seventh day we find the clause , ‘ … when they make a long blast with the ram 's horn ’ . |
| 12 | And everybody was getting a bit bored with it cos as it dragged on this is s seven months when you know a long time to be I never thought it would have gone this as long as that when we started off with it . |
| 13 | Fill a long glass with ice , a chunk of cucumber , pieces of orange and lemon and a sprig of mint . |
| 14 | Pass a long piece of string through each hole and tie the ends of the string to a carving fork , so the meat can be suspended in a pan without it touching the bottom . |
| 15 | The problem simply Mr Mayor is that during the morning peak period traffic enters the city via causeway , going erm I think erm this traffic that 's coming over the is joined by local traffic from roads leading off causeway and the result of that is that er on many occasions er we get a long tailback of traffic er waiting to turn right at the junction of causeway and road . |
| 16 | compose a long essay in English from a choice of subjects by 1 December following the first summer course ; |
| 17 | We … turn to the right and find a long line of Loose Boxes extending to the Forge … |
| 18 | Many folks go a long way up the Bulger to fix a high runner and top-rope the move , but this is a bit naughty , and it wo n't help you on the upper slab . |
| 19 | These facts go a long way towards explaining why the bream is not generally recognised as a hard-fighting fish . |
| 20 | These may seem trivial examples , but they go a long way towards helping teachers assess the success of different parts of the school in which they work and , ultimately , that of the whole institution . |
| 21 | To meet the needs of piston-engine operators worldwide , a small number of specialist concerns thrive looking after the precious radial engine that go a long way towards making the DC-3 and DC-6 such economic miracle workers . |
| 22 | Good selection procedures and thorough briefing sessions go a long way towards making an overseas assignment a success . |
| 23 | Those local authorities that are investing in the necessary shredders and mechanical mixers are finding that the savings of landfill charges go a long way towards paying for the environmental gain . |
| 24 | The reader should be aware , however , that recent years have seen the enactment of a number of important statutory forms of liability in particular areas of exceptional risk which go a long way towards avoiding the likelihood of protracted litigation inherent in the ill-defined nature of the rules of strict liability at common law . |
| 25 | ‘ Your own stories go a long way towards doing that . ’ |
| 26 | The regulations , which go a long way towards updating the older health and safety laws , cover a wide range of basic health , safety and welfare issues . |
| 27 | These religious tensions go a long way towards explaining why the party divide cut so deep into society : political strife during the first age of party did not just affect the political elite at the centre and a minority of the more affluent and better-educated classes in the localities , but all sorts of people , including those of fairly humble backgrounds , women as well as men , were caught up in the party divide . |
| 28 | The political and economic origins of this approach to soil conservation go a long way to explaining it . |
| 29 | Now , diver deployment systems are accepted as normal offshore practise , and go a long way to making commercial diving safer . |
| 30 | Three books on Clive Sinclair 's £125 colour computer , the ZX Spectrum , go a long way to dispelling both impressions . |