Example sentences of "[be] [noun] [prep] a long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had been part of a long stream of women who had come and gone swiftly , lives collapsing in one area as they gained power and certainty in another . |
| 2 | We 've been pals for a long time . |
| 3 | This is particularly true of regulations in heavily regulated fields such as agriculture , where they may be part of a long string of related measures or be limited to implementing a regulation of broader scope . |
| 4 | Disinfectant — Buckets — Soap — Metal cups — tins — plates — Washing up liquid These are examples from a longer list of practical items . |
| 5 | And even her clothes , once you had got over the original shock , were part of a long tradition of home-made outfits dating back to her days at the Mother Theresa Convent , South Wimbledon . |
| 6 | ‘ People thought we were idiots for a long time , ’ remembers Kelly . |
| 7 | We are , we are debt free , we 've been debt for a long time . |
| 8 | Such thinking is part of a long tradition , finding its most clear formulation in the political philosophy of Hobbes where human society is presented as being in a state of ‘ warre ’ in which every man fights every other man for control of resources and for the ( presumed ) pleasure of dominance . |
| 9 | This passage is part of a longer passage cited with approval by Lord Keith of Kinkel , Lord Griffiths and Lord Goff of Chieveley in Attorney-General v. Guardian Newspapers Ltd . |
| 10 | For example , the third clause in the following extract ( a ) is part of a longer sentence : ( 1 ) The tone of the document was threatening . |
| 11 | As to who would provide the care she said that where there is care over a long period of time , families often stop employing carers through an agency . |
| 12 | Two thousand miles to the east of St Petersburg , the boxcar was part of a long train that had started out in St Petersburg a week earlier and had gone along the Trans-Siberian Railway . |
| 13 | Drugs were also seized and police say it was part of a long term campaign , codenamed Operation Lucy and targeted on a guns and drug network . |
| 14 | The passages were constructed so that they contained a target clause which in one version of a passage formed a sentence on its own and in another version was part of a longer sentence . |