Example sentences of "be [adj] [prep] [art] long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 've been asleep for a long time . ’ |
| 2 | It would not have been possible for the long progression towards the perfect physical being , to have ever occurred at all , if it were encumbered by the constraints of compassion , an emotion which , by the very nature of evolution was completely non-existent before the dawn of civilisation . |
| 3 | But I 'd been careful for a long time before that , because I 'd sensed something . |
| 4 | At the very least , the discipline of being involved in some form of training will help counteract the feeling of lethargy that creeps over many people who have been unemployed for a long while — a characteristic which is very counterproductive in an interview . |
| 5 | To summarize : if you have been made redundant or have been unemployed for a long period : |
| 6 | If you have been made redundant or have been unemployed for a long time you have two additional problems to overcome . |
| 7 | It has been clear for a long time that where land adjoining the highway is unintentionally entered , i.e. as a result of a car accident , that the plaintiff must prove negligence ( River Wear Commissioners v Adamson ( 1877 ) 2 App Cas 743 ) . |
| 8 | The trend towards equality of attainment is especially marked in schools that have been comprehensive for a long time . |
| 9 | I have been convinced for a long time that people could not love , accept or respect me for the person I am , only for the amazing amount of exercise I can do . |
| 10 | In some countries where religion is not acknowledged to be in any way a necessary part of life , and also to a lesser degree in some where it is , the very important regular holidays , i.e. the single days or short periods of relief from work , which are spaced throughout the year , and which are additional to the long summer vacations , are fixed by arbitrary law and not by reference to religious feast days . |
| 11 | For example , as we noted , the definition of pragmatics as concerned with encoded aspects of context may be less restrictive than it seems at first sight ; for if in general ( a ) principles of language usage have as corollaries principles of interpretation , and ( b ) principles of language usage are likely in the long run to impinge on grammar ( and some empirical support can be found for both propositions ) , then theories about pragmatic aspects of meaning will be closely related to theories about the grammaticalization of aspects of context . |
| 12 | ‘ War 's been inevitable for a long time , Anne . ’ |
| 13 | Stable jockey Chris Grant said : ‘ He had been ill for a long while , but carried on because his horses were his life . ’ |
| 14 | Old John Knox had been ill for a long time and , two years after I joined the firm , he was told that he must retire . |
| 15 | Very often I spend long days on my allotment , and cook quite nice dinners of , say , breast of mutton and peas and fruit off the allotment for myself and a [ woman ] friend who has been ill for a long time … . |
| 16 | But the poor woman had been ill for a long time , although we had not realized it , and died soon after Hareton was born . |
| 17 | ‘ She 'd been ill for a long time . |
| 18 | Party Chairman Tony Picking said today Mr Burge has been ill for a long time and resigned in February . |
| 19 | Party Chairman Tony Picking said today Mr Burge has been ill for a long time and resigned in February . |
| 20 | There 's a cluster of courses in Suffolk that are ideal for a long weekend and a similar group in Norfolk for those arriving from the North . |
| 21 | ‘ And this man , Leonora , has been celibate for a long time . |
| 22 | Rural groups have been vulnerable for a long time . |
| 23 | Many of the classic economic and social indicators of fertility decline had been present for a long time in nineteenth-century Britain . |
| 24 | They are responsible for the long range planning activities of the firm and they will set the overall goals . |
| 25 | I have n't been happy for a long time but now I think I 'm going to be . ’ |
| 26 | May I congratulate my right hon. Friend on what he has done at Maastricht in limiting the powers of the Commission , about which my constituents have been concerned for a long time ? |
| 27 | That future output depends on real investment in productive assets now and in the future , while the piling-up of financial assets in excess of real investment can only be inflationary in the long run ( a ‘ long run ’ which is already with us ) . |
| 28 | Spending some money on development education at home could , they thought , be cost-effective in the long run . |
| 29 | He said that he had enjoyed working on his own behalf , but felt that staying out of the profession would not be sensible in the long run . |
| 30 | Regulation which might be more costly in the short term than the actual abuses it seeks to regulate , may be justifiable in the long run . |