Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] be [art] long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A refugee from the Colette-Willy ménage of the early nineteen hundreds , from what promised to be a long stint of sterile work as Willy 's secretary and as yet another among the throng of that extraordinary man 's unacknowledged collaborators , the young Marcel Boulestin fled the malicious gossip , the dramas and scandals in which these two now legendary figures were for ever involving each other and their friends . |
| 2 | The first of what promised to be a long series of show trials of former senior officials of the ousted Ceausescu regime ended on Feb. 2 when a military tribunal in Bucharest found Emil Bobu , Manea Manescu , Ion Dinca and Tudor Postelnicu guilty of " co-authorship of genocide " in connection with the killing of demonstrators in Timisoara , Bucharest and elsewhere at the start of the December 1989 revolution [ see pp. 37104-05 ] . |
| 3 | We appear to be a long way from finding effective means of primary prevention of attempted suicide . |
| 4 | Even though Climent and Bardolet appear to be a long way in front — over 250 points — Meeke explains that Spain uses a European-style co-efficient scoring system . |
| 5 | ‘ I want to be a long distance lorry driver or one of those dispatch riders in London , that would be quite exciting . |
| 6 | There needs to be a long term education of cyclists and I sincerely apologise to those walkers who have had any bad experiences . |
| 7 | No , but I thought you seemed to be a long while getting the bugger out . |
| 8 | Despite the confident appeals , the bat seemed to be a long way away from the ball |
| 9 | Oh it , it was n't there seemed to be a long time you know before they turned one out to make , because it was a very long process rebuilding an aircraft , es especially as the situation was at Walsall . |
| 10 | ‘ It 's going to be a long night , ’ he said , and he turned to Creed , who had just walked into the room , and smiled . |
| 11 | It was going to be a long night , as I also had to finish an already over-due essay on Swedish expansion in the seventeenth century ( it would have to be a goodish one , too ; an earlier remark — made in an unguarded moment during a methodically boring tutorial — ascribing Swedish territorial gains in the Baltic to the invention of the Smorgasbord with its take-what-you-want ethic , had not endeared me to the professor concerned ; nor had my subsequent discourse on the innate frivolity of the Swedes , despite what I thought was the irrefutable argument that no nation capable of giving a Peace Prize to Henry Kissinger could possibly be accused of lacking a sense of humour . |
| 12 | It was going to be a long night . |
| 13 | Going to be a long journey I would think cos it 's an hour and a half from here to Scarborough on the bus . |
| 14 | It 's going to be a long session . ’ |
| 15 | Waterville Valley and the World Cup finals in late March was going to be a long haul . |
| 16 | Dozens of boxes of documents were taken into court at the start of the complicated trial , a trial which the jury were warned by the judge , is going to be a long haul . |
| 17 | ‘ I always knew this was going to be a long haul . ’ |
| 18 | It 's going to be a long struggle getting established and until I am I do n't see how … ’ |
| 19 | It was going to be a long day . |
| 20 | Freak ‘ I knew it was going to be a long day . |
| 21 | ‘ Going to be a long day , ’ said the Immigration man . |
| 22 | But it was going to be a long day … |
| 23 | " When it was clear that identifying him was going to be a long job — if , indeed , he could ever be identified — the coroner issued a burial certificate . |
| 24 | I think it 's going to be a long summer with a lot of killings . ’ |
| 25 | And it 's going to be a long time before it 's going to be possible , so therefore we still have to use animals , I see no way round it . |
| 26 | " It 's going to be a long time before we get another chance , though , is n't it though ? " |
| 27 | Although … well , it does look as though it 's going to be a long time before they can leave hospital , ’ she added sorrowfully . |
| 28 | I think that it 's a very long term thing and until the attitudes of both men and women and boys and girls at schools who come up here change , and that 's going to be a long time |
| 29 | Erm Oh dear this is going to be a long list of things I was supposed to do but did n't . |
| 30 | Green had already spent so long on his maps , carefully recording every field and alley-way , that Laurent could see it was going to be a long task , and also that the end result would be large and quite expensive . |