Example sentences of "[be] [verb] on a long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The other half wants to hang dependent clauses ; like ‘ Americans will tell anything to an Englishman with a camera poking over his right shoulder when they are trapped on a long distance train . ’ |
| 2 | Or the link between inflation and unemployment may simply have been operating on a long lag , with the old , high NAIRU returning after several years to smack ministers in the face . |
| 3 | If you 're going on a long journey alone , plan your route in advance using main roads as far as possible . |
| 4 | ‘ It 's been going on a long time , Elaine . |
| 5 | because it 's been going on a long time . |
| 6 | But it was I mean you have to admit erm and I 'm I 'll bring Mr Power in and let him speak for himself , but you have to admit that it from what we 've just heard , it started in nineteen seventy four , it 's been going on a long time . |
| 7 | It has been bought on a long lease which also gives BP , which uses the offices , a five-year lease-back arrangement . |
| 8 | As you know , the two of them have become good friends , and are going on a long holiday together . |
| 9 | Acyclovir may be given on a long term basis to people with HIV who have had an attack of shingles , or have frequent attacks of herpes simplex . |
| 10 | Such accommodation can often be let on a long lease or sold to raise a capital sum . |
| 11 | John Maddox , the editor of Nature , wrote in 1982 : ‘ The OED is uniquely a data base … , which will suggest to many that it should by now be stored on a long reel of magnetic tape , floppy disks , or some other means of data storage . |
| 12 | There is a lot of space , which is needed on a long tour ! |
| 13 | The film is based on a long novel by Pat Conroy which deals with the excavation of the past , a current favourite theme . |
| 14 | The wool was wound on a long stick called a distaff . |
| 15 | Under these schemes , which had first been developed in the 1970s as a means of raising capital from the private sector for new development , for example , on office and shopping complexes ( i.e. as a means of avoiding constraints on capital spending ) , council property was sold on a long lease to another agency and then leased back for shorter periods until the long lease expired . |
| 16 | It was not that what he said was startlingly new , for it was based on a long tradition , but his particular talent and novelty was that he managed to combine biblical exegesis with growing papal ideology , to induce the texts to mean something of relevance to his leadership of society . |