Example sentences of "[be] [art] [noun] [prep] a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is also our intention — this differs from what has been the case for a long time — that they will be fully manned units . |
| 2 | Bayazid Jacques , Bourequat Midhat René Bourequat and Ali Auguste Bourequat , who disappeared without explanation after their arrest on July 8 , 1973 , had been the focus of a long campaign by human rights groups . |
| 3 | Buid attitudes toward tranquillity and violence are the product of a long historical process , in which they were consistently the victims of outside forces . |
| 4 | The high professional standards present in some other occupations , such as science or medicine , are the outcome of a long process . |
| 5 | In reality , of course , they are the result of a long chain of conscious decision making . |
| 6 | There 'd been no shooting for a long while . |
| 7 | It has been a friend for a long time . ’ |
| 8 | George Hamilton has been a friend for a long time ? |
| 9 | ‘ I 've been an engineer for a long time , and I 've always believed that ethics and integrity were every bit as important as theorems and formulas , and never once has anything happened to change my beliefs . |
| 10 | Changes in these attitudes and practices will be the result of a long political process which will certainly take more than a century to work out , and even then will probably compress the time which it took Europe to work through comparable processes . |
| 11 | It may be the start of a long slide away from the story you have to tell and if you let that happen you will , however quick and exciting the dialogue , eventually threaten your reader 's interest in the whole . |
| 12 | This was to be the start of a long debate which would be continued in the seventh century with the growth of concessions of immunity from episcopal intervention to particular monastic foundations . |
| 13 | Upon baptism this king took the Christian name of Abraham — perhaps because he hoped to be the father of a long line of kings associated with Frankish power . |
| 14 | It was to be a title with a long and cosmopolitan history . |
| 15 | By then the ethnic composition of its native population was multifarious and complex , being the result of a long period of prehistoric development . |
| 16 | But his mature convictions were the effect of a long organised retreat from the simple dualities of youthful Marxism — capitalism against socialism , bourgeois against prole — and the first of his books ever to see print , Down and Out in Paris and London ( 1933 ) , had been emphatic that Marxist analysis fails to correspond to observed experience , the gradations insisted on by the kitchen-staff of a Parisian hotel or the destitute of an English doss-house being there because the poor want them to be there and not by compulsion . |
| 17 | Proud of being a member of a long line of parson–naturalists stretching back to John Ray and Gilbert White [ qq.v. ] , he saw his contributions to science as an extension of his work as a priest . |
| 18 | I and my right hon. Friend would be the first to admit that the White Paper process is the beginning of a long road . |
| 19 | Lower than a thousand units er there 's no immediate affect and one 's tempted to think that erm the er er it 's , that radiation 's therefore safe below that level and that 's not strictly true because there is the possibility of a long term affect it can actually cause cancer in the long term but with very low er ra- er levels of risk cos you can see down at the levels where people actually get radiation doses er like erm members of the public or erm from the actual background of people who work in nuclear power stations , you 're talking about very low levels but the levels , those sort of levels I mean one in three hundred thousand , one in three million , that sort of thing you ca n't actually measure in real er populations because there er any effects that there are can be swamped by other ways of getting er of getting cancer . |
| 20 | The dangers of such an approach can be seen at its most extreme in Gordon Rattray Taylor 's neo-Freudian interpretation of Sex in History : ‘ The history of civilisation is the history of a long warfare between the dangerous and powerful drives and the systems of taboos and inhibitions which man has erected to control them ’ . |
| 21 | However , in order to expose the nature of capitalism , Marx first had to show that capitalism is not based on some eternal immutable truth , as presented by economists , but is the product of a long history . |
| 22 | A PHILLIP Glass-style loop is the basis for a long , trancey , free-flowing , ambient workout , a floating journey around the cosmos cut with geometrically perfect shapes of sound . |
| 23 | The appointment is the culmination of a long search which started with the departure of Simpson 's predecessor Richard Macey in December . |
| 24 | However , the Medical Officer wrote : ‘ A preferred standard of 50 mg/litre is the result of a long established consensus amongst scientists in the United Kingdom and internationally , ’ although ‘ transient excursions ’ above that level would have no importance ‘ in relation to the postulated role of nitrate in causation of cancer , since in this context the long-term average content is the significant figure . |
| 25 | What I am today is the result of a long process . |
| 26 | This is the start of a long , arduous days at the wheel . |
| 27 | Right now it 's the end of a long day in London and the 48-year-old Young prowls the room with a stooped , rangy gait , the traces of a roguish grin on his well-worn face . |
| 28 | For James Tranter 28 , a wealthy interior designed and 27-year-old Kevin Swan , a successful , equally wealthy jazz musician , it 's the end of a long orgy of theft throughout London 's top stores , including Jaeger , Austin Reed and Blazer |
| 29 | Kemp 's a bit of a long shot , is n't he ? ’ |
| 30 | That 's a bit of a long drag that one , not that Paul take open up a bit there and go a bit faster , level , but that was a bit Well 's done a left up to Chell 's Field and that , bloody that killed him , I bet , you know the bit I mean , and up over the fields , where you go through the fields and fields , that was the killer , cos and coming back Bell 's straight round to , got to the bottom , Hill was n't too bad . |