Example sentences of "be [vb pp] long [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Frequently they are relevant and will be followed on appeal — but during the six months to a year it takes for an appeal to come to a hearing the minister could have changed , while the current appeals will have been lodged long before the words have been spoken . |
| 2 | Consequently , norm development occurs over very long periods , and often very old behaviour patterns are preserved long after they have ceased to be relevant . |
| 3 | The vast majority are performed long before a nervous system is present and in the small number of cases where this is not so , the animal is anaesthetized . |
| 4 | ‘ They show that a major capital investment , amounting to £160 million in current prices , did not produce much physics and should have been closed long before it was in 1977 . ’ |
| 5 | The terms of many restraints will have been settled long before an occasion for their enforcement arises . |
| 6 | Lamarckism was the only morally acceptable theory of evolution , and Darwin was all the more to blame because he had concealed the fact that better mechanisms of evolution than his own had been proposed long before the Origin of Species was published . |
| 7 | The Smiths , the Kays and the Wyllies were humble men who stayed on in their native county and did not amass great wealth , nevertheless , they are remembered long after most of the supposedly important people of their generations have been forgotten . |
| 8 | First , it was assumed that no long-range problems would occur ; that is , that the acidifying or toxic power of the gases would be neutralised long before they got to Scandinavia or anywhere else . |
| 9 | At Waterloo , the L&SWR headquarters , there was much to do ; many platforms had to be replanned and the rebuilding of the terminus speeded up , but Walker saw at once that he must entice more commuters , and his electrification of the London suburban lines , which was to be pursued long after he was running the future Southern Railway , was of lasting significance . |
| 10 | IT IS NOT unusual for scientific predictions to be made long before techniques are available to test them — and it is particularly satisfying when such predictions are at last fulfilled . |
| 11 | It is important to recognise that whilst the UK business economy may see a recovery in 1992 , the adverse effects of the current recession on the consumer market will continue to be felt long after the economy has begun to recover . |
| 12 | As the controls become effective , the amount of rudder will have to be reduced long before full flying speed is reached . |
| 13 | The last-named 's Printing Types : their History , Forms and Use will be remembered long after many presses are forgotten . |
| 14 | ‘ She 's getting worse ; she 'll be gone long before I will . |
| 15 | The chief functions of the short time-limit under Ord. 53 are to prevent public programmes from being unduly held up by litigation challenging the legality of such programmes ; and to prevent steps already taken in execution of challenged decisions having to be reversed long after the decision was acted upon . |
| 16 | But the bank or building society could not confirm the ‘ endorsed ’ signature so stolen cheques could be cashed long before anyone realised it . |
| 17 | He will be remembered as a mild prankster and anaemic lackey to the establishment , though the flavour of individual cartoons and cartoonists will be savoured long after their foster parent is forgotten . |
| 18 | They had not been gone long when we sighted Gavin coming towards us . |
| 19 | Others extended the land all the way across the Atlantic to explain how some species came to be resident in both North America and Europe , openly appealing to the legend of Atlantis to support this hypothesis , despite the fact that the land-bridge would have been submerged long before the human race appeared . |
| 20 | More recently , studies of modern objects by archaeologists working in the sub-discipline of ethno-archaeology have sought to provide ‘ general and testable ’ laws of stylistic behaviour , strongly influenced by an extreme and exquisitely inappropriate form of positivism which took hold of the discipline in the 1960s , and appears to have been retained long after most other social sciences threw off its shackles ( e.g. Binford 1972 ; 1978 ; Gould and Schiffer eds 1981 , see Hodder 1982a and b for a critique ) . |
| 21 | Free weights were used long before machines were invented for weight training , and virtually every exercise can be executed using them . |
| 22 | It was so hugely successful that it was still being broadcast long after they were both demobilized . |
| 23 | The new trains were ordered long before the Government drew up its plans to put some routes out to private tender . |
| 24 | The ball should have been cleared long before it found its way onto Robert Lee 's left boot . |
| 25 | These graves and their contents had been studied long before computers became commonplace , and gave indications of two different burial rites : one involving burial with pig bones and metal goods but no pottery , and the other involving sheep bones and pottery . |
| 26 | A whole history has been assimilated long before conscious self-criticism is a realistic option . |
| 27 | If , on the other hand , the frequency of reinforcement is changed after the initial increase to an intermittent one , that is the person is rewarded only occasionally , then there is a further increase , and the behaviour is maintained long after the reinforcer is withdrawn . |
| 28 | The then Lord Chief Justice in 1980 commented that , If it were not that a high proportion of cases are compromised long before they reach court the administration of justice would soon grind to a halt ; the courts would be overwhelmed by the volume of work . ’ |
| 29 | For , as Neil Bartlett points out , that nice little word was corrupted long before we got our sticky fingers on it . |
| 30 | ‘ The Norwood & Chambers contract was started long before I joined the company . |