Example sentences of "[pron] are a long [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 . ’
3 If you keep him quiet you are a long way down the road to achieving some success at Leeds .
4 You are a long way from Achnacarry , Piper !
5 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 .
6 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 ?
7 We are a long way from Egypt , but in many ways the secular world is as merciless as Islam .
8 We are a long way from the time where a computer could pass a reasonable judgement on the quality of an electronic document .
9 And I know that they 're using cultures and things but I still think that we are a long way from not using animals .
10 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 .
11 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 ) .
12 The new appointments demonstrate a commitment by the Saatchi brothers to restore the company 's fortunes and suggest they are a long way from turning their backs on the business they built .
13 Such interviews provide an index of ‘ psychological malaise ’ but they are a long way from producing the more concrete statistics provided by medical consultation , prescription levels and mortality rates .
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