Example sentences of "[noun sg] be [verb] a long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The collapse continued until many thousands of tons of rock were blocking a long section of the underground roadway . |
| 2 | Tod is conducting a long argument , and he is telling the truth , but the invisible people who might hear and judge luckily refuse to believe him and turn away in silence , weariness and disgust . |
| 3 | Jehana was wearing a long gown of cream-coloured cloth . |
| 4 | ‘ When I step back from it all , I see tennis was invented a long time ago . |
| 5 | Those hyacinths in the cauldron are taking a long time to come out are n't they ? |
| 6 | The sky was getting darker and the silhouette of the Chateau was casting a long shadow of gloom over the scene . |
| 7 | ( Later we learn that her body was carried a long distance on someone 's back , for there are only a few places in Tibet where sky burials are performed . ) |
| 8 | ‘ The entire community was resettled a long time ago . |
| 9 | 2.25:GOLD CUP hero Cool Ground was beaten a long way behind Tipping Tim at Wetherby three weeks ago , and is best watched for the time being . |
| 10 | Iain Christie , chairman of the processing group , said : ‘ This promotion was arranged a long time ago , before this import situation surfaced . |
| 11 | Woolley was making a long telephone call . |
| 12 | Those hyacinths in the corner are taking a long time to come out , are n't they ? |
| 13 | Sapt was carrying a long rope and I had a short , thick stick and a long knife . |
| 14 | Littleton , Massachusetts-based Alliant Computer Systems Corp is taking a long time to die — too long for Craig Mundie , who resigned as president and chief executive to accept a position with Microsoft Corp as general manager , Advanced Consumer Technologies . |
| 15 | I simply say that on the debates we 've had on the Policing Bill , I 've learnt what the functions of your Noble House is all about and the speech that 's just been made from across the Chamber from me , sums up entirely my views on the matter , and I say to your Lordships House that on the basis of experience as Northern Ireland Secretary when one is a Home Secretary for a province and there 's a number of people in this House who 've had a job to do including the Noble Lord , The Noble Viscount Whitelaw who set the tone of the way we all proceeded , I accept that , the one of the things we had to do there was bring democracy back to policing and the primary force of policing is taking a long time to do and that here as Home Secretary , everything I learned there was , stop the growing centralisation and the weakening of the police authorities and police force and this Bill does exactly that But now one of the questions I 've asked myself and it 's the only point because all the points have been made that I really want to ask the Government is what are these appointees for ? |
| 16 | What is more , much of government expenditure is committed a long time in advance and can not easily be cut . |
| 17 | The switched-off siren was taking a long time to die . |
| 18 | Brown Owl was gone a long time , but at last she came back , and leaning on her arm and limping was the pilot of the plane . |
| 19 | Here the solution is to set a long net around the thicket so that it is totally surrounded and enclosed , in the hope that the rabbits can be bolted out and entangled in the net . |
| 20 | Finally , the question of national guilt and its expiation was to have a long history in relation to abolition and emancipation involving a definition of national interest as meeting national duty by observing the religious conception of proper order in the world . |
| 21 | The estate was sold a long time ago to the Dukes of Devonshire and was tenanted at one time by the Reverend Thomas Fosbroke , the celebrated antiquary . |