Example sentences of "[pron] be a long [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the same time , I 'm a long way from being young enough to imagine , as you do , that marriage is the answer to all life 's little problems . |
| 2 | I 'm a long way from that , though . |
| 3 | Unluckily , however , I was a long way from her at table . |
| 4 | The bulk of this chapter has been taken up with a discussion of the relationship between the undergraduate curriculum and just two of Lawton 's eight ‘ cultural sub-systems ’ — the social and the economic although the latter has led us into areas which are a long way from the purely economic , and seems to yield a useful typology of undergraduate courses . |
| 5 | My father had a and he said it would be forty seven , say it would likely be forty seven , but that 's forty seven is two year eight month away , which is a long time for me to keep it going . |
| 6 | Rotary committee chairman Tony Dennett said : ‘ The lunch is an ideal opportunity for us to provide hospitality to these students who are a long way from home . ’ |
| 7 | If you keep him quiet you are a long way down the road to achieving some success at Leeds . |
| 8 | ‘ You are a long way from Achnacarry , Piper ! |
| 9 | As I said , I 'm never often out , and if you 're a long way from home it 's always good to have some place to drop in to . |
| 10 | But it 's hard on Tour when you 're a long way from home and the only creature comforts you have are a television , a telephone and a McDonald 's around the corner . |
| 11 | You 're a long way from home here , right ? |
| 12 | ‘ And you 're a long way from being a saint , are n't you ? ’ he drawled mischievously . |
| 13 | If things go drastically wrong and you 're a long way from home and need to call for help the most effective way is with an orange smoke flare . |
| 14 | when you go into the villa , A you 've , got to have a car because there 's not a shop and B you 're a long way from the airport and if you get taxis you 're talking about fifty pound a touch from the airport , so that 's twice , so there 's a hundred pound gone already |
| 15 | She 's a long way from any source of supply and if there 's something that has to be specially made , or is too bulky to fly out — a new engine , for instance … ’ |
| 16 | She was a long way from believing him . |
| 17 | Though she was learning to cope , she was a long way from being over Guido yet . |
| 18 | It is also significant that the steam turbine and the pneumatic tyre were the only major British innovations of this period ; in the new industries she was a long way behind Germany and the United States and by 1914 was falling behind even in the older industries in which she had first established her supremacy . |
| 19 | She was a long time in answering . |
| 20 | Add to this cost the growth in government expenditure , and we are a long way in explaining why the real value of the tax threshold , or the level of income at which tax begins to be paid , has fallen during the post-war period . |
| 21 | We are a long way from liberating the woman from the artificial status of woman artist , which only serves to segregate her further and prevents her working as an individual professional artist , regardless of her political stance — do we call a man a male artist ? |
| 22 | We are a long way from Egypt , but in many ways the secular world is as merciless as Islam . |
| 23 | We are a long way from the time where a computer could pass a reasonable judgement on the quality of an electronic document . |
| 24 | And I know that they 're using cultures and things but I still think that we are a long way from not using animals . |
| 25 | Apparently , the institute is considering building a pilot plant , but little is known about its proposals , and clearly we are a long way from that becoming a viable alternative to present-day technology . |
| 26 | We are a long way from those factory-owners of the 1830s , living in constant fear of something like slave insurrections ( see The Age of Revolution , epigraph to chapter 11 ) . |
| 27 | We 're a long way off retiring yet , Marlene . |
| 28 | ‘ There 's quite a cloud of smoke , ’ muttered Heather uneasily , ‘ and we 're a long way from it up here . |
| 29 | We 're a long way from Cambridge now , and my name is Rose . ’ |
| 30 | But , I mean we 're a long way from that , and I do n't want people to think that I 'm from saying er redundancies are imminent , er |