Example sentences of "be [verb] [prep] a long [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although many kinds of trace fossil are known from a long geological time span , some are confined to the Cambrian and could record extinct body plans , as well as details of early metazoan activities such as locomotion and feeding . |
| 2 | One of the big disadvantages of crewing a cutter is that much of our revenue work has to be done after a long hard day 's passage between ports when often one only feels like flopping down on one 's bunk . |
| 3 | That the choleretic response to feeding is abolished by vagotomy suggests that this secretory event may possibly be mediated by a long vago-vagal reflex ( similar to the increased production of gastric acid secondary to gastric distension ) , or that it may be a true cephalic phase event . |
| 4 | To work all year and then watch your entire flock of sheep be killed by a long savage winter , as happened in Malham in 1940 when drifts ten and twenty feet deep covered the moor of Spiggot Hill and Tarn Moss , must be cruelty itself . |
| 5 | Most historical accounts have been influenced by a long sociological tradition going back to Frederic le Play 's L'Organisation de la famille selon le vrai modèle signalé par l'histoire de toutes les races et de tous les temps ( 1871 ) , which saw a broad change in the family from the extended form in the middle ages to nuclear form in modernity . |
| 6 | Maybe it was close behind them and they were embarking on a long exhausting journey all the way around the Waste to reach what was near at their backs . |
| 7 | I imagine that you would also be aware that the only reason the Pentagon produces such figures is to extract from a long suffering American tax-payer billions upon billions of extra dollars in order to pursue its own lunatic military fantasies . |
| 8 | Good choices for bathroom lighting are enclosed ceiling-mounted lights or swivelling recessed eyeball spotlights ; pendant lighting should only be used if the lampholder is fitted with a long protective skirt . |
| 9 | He was clad in a long dark coat with a fur collar , and a scarf . |
| 10 | I was treated like a long lost brother ! |
| 11 | At Christchurch the original station was no more than a collection of sheds , but in 1877 it was replaced by a long Gothic structure — a rare example in the southern hemisphere — which looked like a succession of chapels at right angles to the platforms with a connecting range running between them . |
| 12 | It was clothed in a long striped garment resembling a priestly gown from which only the head , hands and feet were excluded . |
| 13 | From then on , Stafford Road was flanked by a long black corrugated iron fence . |
| 14 | But in this warm and pleasant climate she was dressed in a long black dress which looked as though it had been made at the time of Heathcliff . |
| 15 | He was dressed in a long blue robe which reached down to snow-flecked boots . |
| 16 | She was dressed in a long white robe of finely pleated linen , which was belted loosely at the waist . |