Example sentences of "be [verb] [adv] [prep] a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The tackle from behind has been stopped here for a long time , but they were doing it all night and getting away with it . |
| 2 | The increase had been won only after a long struggle . |
| 3 | He knew this was something that had been happening slowly for a long time , something that had to happen or he was lost , but it was such a brittle structure they were building , one word would topple it , shatter it , one word would be enough to jerk them back into that ordinary daylight where nothing could be changed or righted , nothing could unravel . |
| 4 | All the animals are in their cages , but they do n't seem to have very much space , and some of them have n't been fed properly for a long time . |
| 5 | Social anthropologists can and do study members of their own society and they have been doing so for a long time , though mostly they do not do it very well . |
| 6 | Thus there was a confusing number of elements on earth , above it and below it which contributed to the afterlife , representing ideas which had been brought together over a long period of time . |
| 7 | arguments , all of which can be developed only by a long mental soak in the subject . |
| 8 | In particular , it has a lower jaw so loosely connected with the upper that it can be pushed forward like a long narrow spoon . |
| 9 | Anyone who is stupid enough to try and derail a train should be locked away for a long time . |
| 10 | Kraemer and Roberts ( 1984 ) offer as justification for this assumption the suggestion that ‘ important ’ memories retain the ability to be retrieved even after a long retention interval whereas less important memories do not . |
| 11 | Nick Brown was cleared of drugs charges in Goa , but has only just been allowed home after a long campaign by his mother . |
| 12 | I heard this with embarrassment , remembering how terribly bored and miserable I had been sitting there on a long hot afternoon , hardly understanding a word as chiefs and elders talked to our delegation in local dialect . |
| 13 | He and his son were coming home from a long day 's fishing . |
| 14 | A rectangular coil is located parallel to a long straight current-carrying wire as shown in Fig. 4.19 . |
| 15 | Next door , steady work is going ahead on a long term , very ambitious educational project to which he is now turning his energies . |
| 16 | The final decision as to what to count is actually the solution to the problem in hand ; this decision is taken only through a long series of complicated exploratory maneuvers ’ ( Labov 1972a : 82 ) . |
| 17 | They had been imprisoned there by a long dead ruler , Llud . |
| 18 | Mr Nyers was speaking shortly after a long procedural wrangle on the method of electing the new leadership . |
| 19 | The flare had drifted slowly down behind the church on the village green and was followed quickly by a long burst of automatic fire . |