Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] be [art] long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's going to be a long night , ’ he said , and he turned to Creed , who had just walked into the room , and smiled . |
| 2 | It was going to be a long night , as I also had to finish an already over-due essay on Swedish expansion in the seventeenth century ( it would have to be a goodish one , too ; an earlier remark — made in an unguarded moment during a methodically boring tutorial — ascribing Swedish territorial gains in the Baltic to the invention of the Smorgasbord with its take-what-you-want ethic , had not endeared me to the professor concerned ; nor had my subsequent discourse on the innate frivolity of the Swedes , despite what I thought was the irrefutable argument that no nation capable of giving a Peace Prize to Henry Kissinger could possibly be accused of lacking a sense of humour . |
| 3 | It was going to be a long night . |
| 4 | Going to be a long journey I would think cos it 's an hour and a half from here to Scarborough on the bus . |
| 5 | It 's going to be a long session . ’ |
| 6 | Waterville Valley and the World Cup finals in late March was going to be a long haul . |
| 7 | Dozens of boxes of documents were taken into court at the start of the complicated trial , a trial which the jury were warned by the judge , is going to be a long haul . |
| 8 | ‘ I always knew this was going to be a long haul . ’ |
| 9 | It 's going to be a long struggle getting established and until I am I do n't see how … ’ |
| 10 | It was going to be a long day . |
| 11 | Freak ‘ I knew it was going to be a long day . |
| 12 | ‘ Going to be a long day , ’ said the Immigration man . |
| 13 | But it was going to be a long day … |
| 14 | " When it was clear that identifying him was going to be a long job — if , indeed , he could ever be identified — the coroner issued a burial certificate . |
| 15 | I think it 's going to be a long summer with a lot of killings . ’ |
| 16 | And it 's going to be a long time before it 's going to be possible , so therefore we still have to use animals , I see no way round it . |
| 17 | " It 's going to be a long time before we get another chance , though , is n't it though ? " |
| 18 | Although … well , it does look as though it 's going to be a long time before they can leave hospital , ’ she added sorrowfully . |
| 19 | I think that it 's a very long term thing and until the attitudes of both men and women and boys and girls at schools who come up here change , and that 's going to be a long time |
| 20 | Erm Oh dear this is going to be a long list of things I was supposed to do but did n't . |
| 21 | Green had already spent so long on his maps , carefully recording every field and alley-way , that Laurent could see it was going to be a long task , and also that the end result would be large and quite expensive . |
| 22 | And it was going to be a long term strategy . |
| 23 | So in , rational grounds y y you would be arguing that , that if we 're going to set this policy up we 're going to have to accept that i it 's going , it is going to be a long term policy . |
| 24 | So if , if one is accepting that , that strategy you would expect there to be statements along the lines of er ye yes this is going to be a long term process , etcetera . |
| 25 | PHIL WINROW , pictured below , is aiming to be a long range snooker star . |