Example sentences of "[is] long [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's long and shiny and it takes me ages to do it . |
| 2 | He says it 's long and slimy and hides in the water waiting for anyone who might fall in . ’ |
| 3 | It 's hard and it 's long and it 's going to separate the men from the boys . ’ |
| 4 | It 's long and straight and takes for ever but eventually we get to the outskirts of Newbury . |
| 5 | It 's long and spacious too , which is good for extra-tall campers . |
| 6 | Whether it 's long or short , you can add an unexpected twist to your hairstyle in next to no time |
| 7 | And so his knell is knolled ’ ; by Malcolm , ‘ The night is long that never finds the day ’ ; by Macbeth himself , ‘ Send out more horses , slurr the country round , /Hang those that talk of fear . ’ |
| 8 | Have your hair trimmed every 5–6 weeks , even if it is long or you are trying to grow it . |
| 9 | If the procedure is long or the dressing is painful analgesia may need to be given by injection ½ — 1 hour before the dressing . |
| 10 | If a sentence is long or otherwise difficult , mimic one phrase at a time , beginning with the last one , then adding the penultimate one , and so on successively till you can manage the whole utterance . |
| 11 | The actual rate of return on a futures position depends both on whether the position is long or short , and on the amount of margin that has to be paid . |
| 12 | The immediate-return system is most likely to be found in localities in which the growing-season is long or year-round and in which ambient temperatures make the storing and preservation of food difficult for peoples at the palaeolithic level of culture . |
| 13 | Contrast with macron , showing the vowel is long as in fa(-)te . |
| 14 | It is long and deep , the flesh pulled off the meat . |
| 15 | You can see that the preparation is long and complex , but now it is virtually over . |
| 16 | Yet Justin 's list of what Plato said aright is long and serene . |
| 17 | The list is long and varied and what you choose or the combinations you try will depend on what you want your event to achieve . |
| 18 | The list of people buried here is long and includes Judah Loew ben Bezalel ( Rabbi Loew d.1609 ) , a philosopher who was interested in the supernatural in traditional Jewish teaching , and whose notorious golem or artificially created servant , was said to lie in pieces in the attic of the Old-New Synagogue ; David Gans , the first Jewish historian to write a history of the gentiles which was published in Prague in 1592 ; Josef Salomo ben Elias del Medigo de Candia ( the Wandering Jew ) , who was born in Crete , studied at Palermo , was a pupil of Galileo , and finally practised medicine everywhere from Cairo to Prague ; Mardochee who founded a most important printing press in Prague and who was one of the founders of the Brotherhood of the Dead who until this century kept vigil at the cemetery . |
| 19 | Shoulder blade is long and well laid back . |
| 20 | The body is long and slender , with a pointed head and it has a long pointed snout that forms a ‘ bill ’ . |
| 21 | The pubic louse is broader than it is long and the four hind legs are equipped with claws with which it hangs on to the pubic hairs . |
| 22 | Equally , do not despair just because the path ahead is long and uncertain . |
| 23 | The ears are very hairy and the switch is long and full . |
| 24 | The body is long and deep and it is a dual-purpose type with a good milk yield ( there is probably some Friesian blood as well ) and fine-grained , marbled meat . |
| 25 | And because the bay is long and shallow , like a peapod , with an average depth of only 9 m , it can not absorb heat well . |
| 26 | It is long and the bottom slopes downwards . |
| 27 | So let us hope that the association is long and fruitful . |
| 28 | The High Street is long and traffic free , many of the shops are in picturesque wooden buildings which line the street , making the whole scene really attractive . |
| 29 | The cinematic trail to Unforgiven is long and winding , and the expression that crops up most often in describing the movies that constitute it is ‘ elegiac ’ . |
| 30 | The journey is long and , occasionally , stirring ; but it is also very much the same at any one point , especially crossing Kansas , Colorado and Utah , where the landscapes become numbingly familiar . |