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Example sentences of "be [verb] [art] long [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

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1	Addition : Suppose you are given a long column of figures to add .
2	My mate and I had been given a long list of names , of Bulawayo people we should meet .
3	They were beautiful , these Andalucían horses , and she had been given a long lecture on the subject by Ana , who seemed to be an expert .
4	If I 'd known that I would have been given a long lecture at the end of the day , well … ’
5	Whereas if it got torn in the hand painted days then you 're talking a long length of time .
6	‘ Our fans have been waiting a long time for a game like Sunday 's .
7	I have been waiting a long time for a British magazine to offer intelligent coverage of mainstream sport in a way that Sports Illustrated , among others in America , seems to do effortlessly .
8	She has been waiting a long time for your kiss . ’
9	These are excellent if you are considering a long stay of two or three months .
10	‘ I think that we are getting a long way from the subject , ’ he said .
11	When he turned it was obvious from his face that he had been having a long tussle with himself .
12	Then they went back to camp and the only person there was Miguel the interpreter , who 'd been having a long conversation with one of the Indians and when he turned round all the other Indians had scarpered .
13	It either comes from the river beds or is scraped from rock ( tufa ) higher up the mountain — either way it has to be carried a long way over steep slopes .
14	I 'm writing a long article about the horrors of the diet and exercise industry . ’ )
15	I want music to frighten me like T Rex or Johnny Rotten : I 'll be waiting a long time for that in Dublin . ’
16	Against the sometimes successful upward negotiation of wages by some groups of urban artisans must be set the long persistence of " customary " rates in other trades .
17	Muldoon seemed to be taking a long time over his coffee .
18	Labour 's preoccupation in future will be to begin the long task of reconverting such people to the view many of them held in Clement Attlee 's day : that it was worth paying more in tax to produce better public services and a more just postwar society .
19	‘ We were given a long account of tritium generation at Mount Mauna Loa and all that and then ‘ by the way here is the neutron spectrum ’ .
20	Detective Chief Superintendent Wycliffe and his wife , Helen , were to see the spectacle for the first time ; they were spending a long weekend with the Ballards , who lived on the moor above the town .
21	The collapse continued until many thousands of tons of rock were blocking a long section of the underground roadway .
22	‘ With Lime Grove then , if you were planning a long shot from any particular place you had to be sure the camera could physically get to that exact spot to take it .
23	The normal method of securing is to drive a long nail through the end of the sleeper at an angle into the one beneath .
24	What is more , much of government expenditure is committed a long time in advance and can not easily be cut .
25	The net effect of these transactions is to establish a long position of $180 000 in a synthetic index future which comprises the thousand smaller shares quoted on the NYSE which are not in the S&P500 index .
26	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 .
27	‘ It 's taken a long time for the guilt to surface . ’
28	‘ It really is stretching the long arm of coincidence to breaking point — a husband and wife , both recently employed by INCUBUS , both murdered within twenty-four hours of each other .
29	She is planning a long holiday in Egypt and America and there has been talk of her working on a new ITV soap called Routes .
30	While researching my article , I was given a long briefing at Falkland House in London , by a Falkland Islands councillor nominated by the Islands ' London representative .