Example sentences of "be [adv] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You see , ’ put in her sister , ‘ there 's nothing wrong with Bruno , but his toenails are rather long . |
| 2 | What is clear , however , is that monitoring is rarely a simple exercise , that the time-scales of the sponsors of monitoring and environmental research are rarely long term though most science is inevitably of this nature and that the increasingly multinational nature of such work necessitates a degree of management not always present in local or nationally based schemes . |
| 3 | The removal of trees constitutes the removal of both biomass and nutrients so it is important for sustainable yield that logging rotations are sufficiently long to allow replenishment . |
| 4 | From here we can suggest that , perhaps , all stars vary their output periodically , but that for obvious practical reason we have no way of knowing that this is so in the case of stars whose periods are sufficiently long . |
| 5 | The overall aim of these draft regulations is therefore very simple but the regulations themselves are somewhat long and complex as those who 've tried to read them will have noticed . |
| 6 | Some of the sentences there are extremely long , some of you use capital letters indiscriminately , every sort of fourth word , they 're in capitals , I do n't understand why that should be . |
| 7 | In fact , the hours are so long at clubs I suspect an ordinary shop-keeping junior would soon quit and go back to Sainsbury 's . |
| 8 | Marchmont himself was forced to admit that ‘ Lord Anson 's promises are so long in the performing that I reckon none of us will build sudden expectations upon them ’ . |
| 9 | His legs are so long that when the rear tyre breaks away he can pick the bike up so quickly because he 's already on it . |
| 10 | Many units have had to stop replacing joints again this year because they have run out of money — most unsatisfactory when cheaper hips are available and waiting lists are so long . |
| 11 | I never understand why the teeth of winter bite so cruelly down into the bone , how daylight sickens from the east , why Elsbeth is so chill as I lie with her , why the nights are so long , without word or gleam . |
| 12 | ‘ Others have not been getting initial appointments and have not been put on waiting lists because they are so long . |
| 13 | I am sorry I have been so long in replying but I only got your letter two days ago . |
| 14 | It 's been so long . ’ |
| 15 | The recession might not have been so long nor so deep had she listened . |
| 16 | She had been so long without a woman friend . |
| 17 | ‘ It has been so long , and this must be Perdita . ’ |
| 18 | It 's been so long . |
| 19 | ‘ It 's been so long I 've forgotten what 's it like , but this game gives me the chance to change that . |
| 20 | It had been so long for her she was like a dam waiting to burst . |
| 21 | Then she turned to speak to all the eagles there , for most were listening in silence to her except those , and there were some , who had been so long in the Cages or so affected by them that they showed interest in nothing but food , their spirit killed by imprisonment . |
| 22 | It 's been so long . |
| 23 | " Why have you been so long ? |
| 24 | For ever , after all , had not been so long . |
| 25 | Had it really been so long ? |
| 26 | ‘ Claudia , oh , Gemini girl , it 's been so long . |
| 27 | It 's been so long now that I see the title as my right . ’ |
| 28 | treaty was actually signed and the process has been so long and er various people have been er As it were , knocked with the Danish referendum , the french referendum , and John Major 's had his own difficulties in getting through the house of commons . |
| 29 | But it 's been so long . |
| 30 | No but it I mean it 's just been so long , it I I said to him , can I do this trial and he said , and i explained everything about it and he said , yes try it . |