Example sentences of "[verb] [ex0] [be] a long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The couple caring for the baby in their Middlesbrough home realise there is a long way to go . |
| 2 | I want to have this man drive me in his car all night long , for us never to arrive anywhere … but if we should then let the gates swing silently open , let there be a long gravel drive , let it be like when the young master comes home from school . |
| 3 | In a study of miraculous images of Mary which weep , the author , Father Hebert SM , after saying there is a long history of these writes , ‘ There has never been such an outpouring of tears as there has been in this century … more explicitly during the ten years , 1971–1981 , particularly so in Italy and in the United States ’ . |
| 4 | I still think there 's a long way to go and there 's a very , very variable standard if you take motorway service areas . |
| 5 | Police say this year overall car crime 's on the wane in the county … but they admit there 's a long way to go |
| 6 | Rodgers knows there is a long way to go before the big one in December , but he has the makings of a strong , hard pack and the chance of additional talent behind them providing injury does not intervene . |
| 7 | There is also the pressure of time , when he knows there is a long list of cases still waiting to be tried at that particular circuit . |