Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [adv] [prep] a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The tackle from behind has been stopped here for a long time , but they were doing it all night and getting away with it . |
| 2 | Tonight was just the culmination of what 's been building up for a long time . ’ |
| 3 | This has been hanging about for a long , long time while I 've been on this and these people and they 're very special people I 've got this sword of hanging over my head . |
| 4 | The increase had been won only after a long struggle . |
| 5 | He knew this was something that had been happening slowly for a long time , something that had to happen or he was lost , but it was such a brittle structure they were building , one word would topple it , shatter it , one word would be enough to jerk them back into that ordinary daylight where nothing could be changed or righted , nothing could unravel . |
| 6 | All the animals are in their cages , but they do n't seem to have very much space , and some of them have n't been fed properly for a long time . |
| 7 | I I simply , I simply want er er a direct message from from the programme which is going on Chairman incidentally I I note that Nottinghamshire County Council erm has found a a and the Labour group there has found it necessary to tackle just the same problems erm in elderly persons homes and that I understand that they have a a closure list of seven , now presumably that has been drawn up from a long list of a lot more than seven , say fourteen or fifteen from which they 've made their final choice . |
| 8 | ‘ It 's been going on for a long time , but yer Mum 's bin very foolish an' so have the rest . |
| 9 | There are already many alternatives to the research carried out on animals which has been going on for a long time . |
| 10 | This world has been going on for a long time , oh god knows how many , five hundred thousand million bloody years and eventually it 's going to , it , it , it , it 's going to explode and go |
| 11 | ‘ These stories have been going round for a long time , and they grow with the telling . ’ |
| 12 | You might say that this thing had been brewing up for a long time , that the threat was there ; they had n't seen it . |
| 13 | Social anthropologists can and do study members of their own society and they have been doing so for a long time , though mostly they do not do it very well . |
| 14 | By this time , Lou and Charlie had moved too — the business had been running down for a long period and there was no point in staying in a flat over a shop that did n't exist any more . |
| 15 | Thus there was a confusing number of elements on earth , above it and below it which contributed to the afterlife , representing ideas which had been brought together over a long period of time . |
| 16 | arguments , all of which can be developed only by a long mental soak in the subject . |
| 17 | In non-ELT materials you can look for situations which are likely to feature highly predictable language : scenes set in restaurants or shops , at parties , the reception desk or the dining table can sometimes be picked out of a longer programme and used in isolation to give an example of particular language functions in operation . |
| 18 | B : ‘ That would be wonderful but I think we will be saving up for a long time . |
| 19 | In particular , it has a lower jaw so loosely connected with the upper that it can be pushed forward like a long narrow spoon . |
| 20 | Anyone who is stupid enough to try and derail a train should be locked away for a long time . |
| 21 | You might be locked up for a long time , or you might be given a fine , which is taken out of your weekly allowance . |
| 22 | Kraemer and Roberts ( 1984 ) offer as justification for this assumption the suggestion that ‘ important ’ memories retain the ability to be retrieved even after a long retention interval whereas less important memories do not . |
| 23 | In some programs files have to be inverted overnight and this requires the microcomputer to be switched on over a long period of time . |
| 24 | However , this is an aspect that must be studied closely over a longer period , for there is a danger in some of the inner-city schemes of officially-induced gentrification . |
| 25 | Nick Brown was cleared of drugs charges in Goa , but has only just been allowed home after a long campaign by his mother . |
| 26 | Had this apparently contradictory programme been worked out over a long period , it might have seemed more logical . |
| 27 | I heard this with embarrassment , remembering how terribly bored and miserable I had been sitting there on a long hot afternoon , hardly understanding a word as chiefs and elders talked to our delegation in local dialect . |
| 28 | They were looking down into a long dark cellar , lit by a brazier at one end . |
| 29 | He and his son were coming home from a long day 's fishing . |
| 30 | The sense of great loyalty is apparent , and the waste of life as if the knights dying ‘ man by man ’ are dominoes being knocked over in a long line . |