Example sentences of "[verb] [be] a long [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Phil Farrand says it is brilliant … it has been a long slog and has meant a lot of hard work |
| 2 | It has been a long time since the women 's game has been so open ; hopefully it will continue . |
| 3 | This is a very beautiful music , serene , noble , discreet , poignant , composed , grief-stricken , understated , sublime — it has been a long time since I discovered anything quite so touching . |
| 4 | There has been a long debate as to whether Severn Mill was operated as a tide mill , the general opinion now seeming to favour this idea . |
| 5 | It had been a long day and she had absorbed a lot of information on the subject that was uppermost in her mind . |
| 6 | It had been a long time since we last saw one of those , so we bought ice cream , sat in the sun and wrote postcards at the Reykjahlid shop . |
| 7 | It had been a long time since he had felt like that . |
| 8 | It was a dream , it had been a long time since Hari had seen her mother smile for the death of her husband had knocked all the spirit out of Win Morgan . |
| 9 | Because of the ancient feud with the Dwarfs , it had been a long time since any High Elf had set foot on the Old World . |
| 10 | It had been a long time since anyone had enjoyed rubbing cream into her back . |
| 11 | She reached for her silk dressing gown and pulled it on ; she felt good , it had been a long time since she had awoken feeling so alive . |
| 12 | It had been a long time since she had had to stop herself simply blowing away an enemy that she found herself unable to either maim or restrain . |
| 13 | It had been a long time since I — ’ He broke off . |
| 14 | It had been a long time since she had felt this way . |
| 15 | It had been a long time since she 'd laughed , joined in a joke , been silly just for the hell of it . |
| 16 | It had been a long time since she 'd met anyone even remotely interesting , and whatever this man was he certainly was n't remote ! |
| 17 | Ahead , on a right-hand bend , was the farm , but it had been a long time since a chicken had shat in that yard . |
| 18 | It had been a long time since the mental barrier between herself and the watching audience had been broken … |
| 19 | She did not know what sort of oddness to imagine , but they had been a long time and there had been peculiar noises . |
| 20 | He thought again about his parents , but it had been a long time and he became angry with himself because he could no longer picture their faces like before . |
| 21 | Cold winter maybe , but it had been a long summer that ended that afternoon , from Powell , through the May Events and , at the end of August , the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia , which had again pulled the demonstrators on to the streets , but on this occasion down to Notting Hill and Olympia , the homes of the Czech and Soviet embassies , and an ill-timed eastern bloc trade exhibition . |
| 22 | Well we went off and got off at Peel which was the other with the all bandaged up and she said the chemist advised me to go to the police and er so she said that 's why I 've been a long time because I 've been to the police and reported it . |
| 23 | ‘ I know it 's been a long day but I want you to drive to Sion tonight . |
| 24 | IT 'S been a long time since Sister Jacques-Marie took her clothes off for public viewing . |
| 25 | It 's been a long time since a league game was played at Molyneux against Stoke . |
| 26 | But first of all I 'd like to congratulate the officers on the report er I 'm sure that those people who have been reading the reports and officers of the County Council for some years er will have probably er , er it 's been a long time since they 've read one that 's been expressed in such strong terms . |
| 27 | ‘ It 's been a long time since I 've been in the semis of a Grand Slam tournament . ’ |
| 28 | It 's been a long time since you left us , but you 're more than welcome though on your return and do n't be so long before you come again . |
| 29 | ‘ It 's been a long time and I am not going to rush it . |
| 30 | Well I think that 's a good way of putting it , absolutely , I mean er As as I say but it it is erm I think it 's been a long process and to get I mean it 's taken nearly two years since the |