Example sentences of "[noun] be [prep] [art] long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My parents were from a long line of good people with a strong sense of duty , living at peace with their neighbours , quick to be helpful when it was in their power , understandably a little feudal in their outlook , with a cautious eye on the squire for whom they worked , liking a glass of beer or homemade parsnip wine , and not above a bit of rabbit poaching . |
| 2 | ‘ The turning point was on the long starboard tack at the start of the second beat , ’ said Conner 's tactician , Tom Whidden . |
| 3 | The only memories are of the long walk down from Parkhead Cross where we get off the bus we 've taken along the Gallowgate from the centre of town . |
| 4 | He may have realised earlier than most of us that the King was in the long run unfitted to be King . |
| 5 | The external threat to it of the restoration of Roman Catholicism through foreign invasion was in the long run less serious than that posed by the Puritans from within . |
| 6 | While the issue of means was left unresolved , clear teaching in regard to the issue of ends was in the long run probably more important . |
| 7 | The recoil peak is on the long TOF side of the argon scattering peak . |
| 8 | Later one of the day boys , on his way home after being kept in , saw an empty bottle of Smirnoff 's in the long grass near the drive . |
| 9 | In the modern age , institutions outside the family have been created to administer public affairs and women were for a long time expressly excluded . |
| 10 | Built by Colla MacDonnell in the sixteenth century , it clings to a narrow promontory , and although there is not much left of the castle itself , its magnificent position is worth the long haul back up the cliff path . |
| 11 | His hair was on the long side too , and she was almost sure he bleached the ends . |
| 12 | This hypothesis was for a long time a subject of much contention in anthropology and is not even now entirely laid to rest , but the meagre historical record we possess can not possibly support such an assertion . |
| 13 | His great courage at the time eventually earned him the Military Cross , but the harrowing experience was for a long while foremost in his mind and symbolized by the walk back to his commanding officer over a mass of dead German and British soldiers in which his feet scarcely touched the ground . |
| 14 | She remembered that John 's only rehearsal place at the time was in a long room above a sundry warehouse in Lower Moseley Street . |
| 15 | The mainstream of early French political socialism was for a long time essentially petit bourgeois , in its absence of rapprochement with trade unions , in its party organizational form , and in the social background of its parliamentarians and membership . |