Example sentences of "be [adv] [adj] [prep] a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to a DCDA telephone survey four places in Stockton are said to be very rarely vacant and 21 on North Tyneside , due to be ready from April , are already subject to a long waiting list . |
| 2 | I think the munich songs are just one in a long line of ‘ sick ’ songs . |
| 3 | Cool , refreshing pastel shades are just right for a long hot summer ! |
| 4 | Andrew , is there a feature in this plan called waiver of premium , what these means to you is that if you 're off ill for a long period of time , through accident , ill-health , whatever , Abbey will actually still pay them for you , until you 're well again . |
| 5 | Then one day I had to go to the Post Office for something — one of them forms I daresay — so I thought I better wrap up , I better take care , you 're very vulnerable after a long illness you know , and I put my old long mack on and one of the kids ' mack hats and Wellingtons and I went out in the rain , feeling , in a depressed sort of way , ‘ Well , if I get ill again , what can I do ? |
| 6 | Yet she knew it was there , in the background , darkening all her thoughts , rendering her sleepless in the nights following their departure and also confirming something of which she had been dimly aware for a long time . |
| 7 | ‘ You can say I 'm not pleased by a long long way . ’ |
| 8 | This would be equally true in a long tunnel , and in the giant 's beard was long , and in how long is the interval ? , where of course the referential loci of long are the entities corresponding to tunnel , beard , and interval respectively . |
| 9 | So it is I I I wo n't predict you know how it 's gon na be too much you know because obviously er it 's just the day to day living is quite difficult for most people have to work and cope with their families and you know so there 's not going to be er that the fundamentals are are not gon na be changed and obviously people are gon na be very broke for a long time because in a strike situation you probably do n't ever really quite recover . |
| 10 | We have a son who still lives at home who in fact has been quite ill for a long time and erm she you know the amount the work she has done therefore has been seriously limited . |
| 11 | These positions are then pre-empted for a long time as the incumbents have many years to go before retirement . |
| 12 | The organization 's market share had been relatively stable for a long time and even growing in concert with the growth in world economies . |
| 13 | They were both quiet for a long time both thinking much the same thing : was such a pretence a way of beginning or would it destroy the might have-been ? |
| 14 | After all , you really were quite ill for a long time . |
| 15 | We 're all called to understand ourselves , and to do this it 's necessary that we should understand one another , and this is only possible after a long while of living together . |
| 16 | However , the occasional long journey has revealed some of the Metro 's hidden talents : ‘ It has a surprisingly spacious interior and is extremely comfortable on a long haul . |
| 17 | For environmental health officer John Waite , it 's just another in a long list of complaints about noise . |
| 18 | Well I do n't know , I think he 's covered up he 's not good for a long time , I did n't know he was that bad . |
| 19 | It is also due to a long term and possibly accelerating rise in demand . |
| 20 | He is yet another in a long line of Scottish internationalists whose generous gifts on the park were matched by an outrageous streak when they went out to play in the recreational sense . |
| 21 | You 've been very quiet for a long time . ’ |
| 22 | The rate of unemployment in Glasgow has been very high for a long time , and I accept that that is unfortunate . |
| 23 | He found it difficult to get consultants interested in community care because it was only one on a long list of issues . |
| 24 | Nicholas was only one in a long line of young Scots including the 16 year old Spurs player Graeme Souness who found London to be a lively but ultimately lonely city . |
| 25 | If her hurried attempt to close it was a betrayal then it was only another in a long line of mistakes . |
| 26 | Lawson himself , while neither tactful nor popular , was astonishingly successful for a long period . |
| 27 | But I do n't love him ; I never have — he was just one in a long line of convenient , undemanding escorts I chose because they did n't threaten my independence … ’ |
| 28 | The delay was partly due to a long and very public debate between PADA and ARROW , a group of residents from Woodchurch , the estate where heroin use was first discovered , who were unhappy about such a centre being opened near their homes , fearing it would attract various sorts of trouble . |
| 29 | The boat was too small for a long journey , and I did not want to die at sea . |
| 30 | I was very unhappy for a long time after that . |