Example sentences of "[be] [prep] be [art] long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was to be a long night . |
| 2 | It was to be a long time before any disciples appeared to revitalize the game , and even after Busby , Shankly , Clough and others the cry still goes up ( not always reasonably ) that football is too negative . |
| 3 | The idea was to move away from an elitist and centralist view of things , yet it was to be a long time before such changes were implemented in the Government 's media , and it might well be argued that they have not progressed very far to this day . |
| 4 | As his biographer has pointed out it was to be a long time ‘ before he had an equal in the study of archaeology on a scientific basis or as an illustrator of archaeological relics ’ ( Jessup 1975 , p. 109 ) . |
| 5 | It was to be a long time before I slotted this experience into others to make sense of it all . |
| 6 | They were described as mere preparations for an Iranian final offensive , though this much-heralded event was to be a long time coming . |
| 7 | Because peasants had to pay back the sums of money which the government advanced on their behalf at 6 per cent interest over forty-nine years , it was to be a long time before their freedom was complete . |