Example sentences of "[v-ing] to [art] long [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | He would like to open an informal , family-run restaurant in the country one day , so he can eventually imagine returning to the long hours of hotel and restaurant work . |
| 2 | As an Irish prime minister once said after listening to a long debate between his cabinet colleagues : ‘ I understand how it works in practice . |
| 3 | ’ Erskine May ’ states clearly that amendments may be made in Committee even if they are not within the Bill 's scope according to the long title . |
| 4 | Foucault notes that , at the same time as the Annales school and others were constructing a history according to the long durée , in the history of science , philosophy , and literature , attention was turning in exactly the opposite direction , that is away from vast unities towards phenomena of rupture , discontinuity , displacement and transformation , towards different temporalities as well as architectonic unities . |
| 5 | The tour was disappointing but looking to the longer term future of Scottish rugby it was certainly not a disaster . |
| 6 | Looking to the longer term , the Company has outline plans for a later phase of developments which will include platform improvements and a visitors ' viewing gallery in the workshops but at the moment all efforts are focused on phase 1 . |
| 7 | ‘ Looking to the longer term , I believe these reforms will significantly encourage the development of larger discoveries , such as West of Shetland , where a higher rate of return is necessary to balance the increased risk and costs of operating in a more demanding deep-water environment . ’ |
| 8 | We could not detect a significant immunological difference between drug users who seroconverted with bacterial pneumonia and those without , but owing to the long sampling interval the lowest CD4 counts were not necessarily measured . |
| 9 | The major factors requiring the enactment of legislation on liability for nuclear incidents were the risk of widespread damage , possibly involving losses of millions of pounds , from a single emission of ionising radiations and the possible injustice in the Limitation Acts owing to the long periods which might elapse between the impact of ionising radiations on the plaintiff and his suffering ascertainable damages . |
| 10 | Round the back you would step out on to a paved patio , leading to a long garden overlooking a field . |
| 11 | Viciously beaten and sexually abused , he sustained series injury leading to a long round of hospitals , major brain surgery and permanent disability . |
| 12 | ‘ The public is becoming aware of the strong likelihood of an increase in interest rates and are turning to the longer fixtures . ’ |
| 13 | They refrained from responding to a long series of statements by senior Chinese officials which contradicted both the letter and the spirit of the Joint Declaration - including an assurance , for example , that the post-1997 Hong Kong press would be free for ‘ as long as it did not publish anything detrimental to China 's national interest ’ . |
| 14 | ‘ She has never done this before , ’ Felipe said worriedly , pacing to the long window and back . |
| 15 | The counts were made in one , arbitrary , direction ( corresponding to the long axis of the fragment ) and transitions involving short-wave cones were excluded . |