Example sentences of "it [modal v] be [art] long time " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it may be a long time coming ; and , meanwhile , the flow of hopefuls from the south shows no sign of stopping . |
| 2 | ‘ It may be a long time before you get another offer like that ! ’ |
| 3 | Everyone knows that if this time round , there is political instability , it may be a long time before Pakistan gets yet another chance at election . |
| 4 | It must be a long time , he thought , since Dad had travelled this far . |
| 5 | It must be a long time since they were cleaned ; they are very dirty . |
| 6 | It must be a long time since anyone — except the most die-hard old buffer — can have thought them outrageous . |
| 7 | She wished she could think of something to say that would make him trust her , only after her stupid behaviour earlier she thought it might be a long time before he fully believed her . |
| 8 | It 'll be a long time before you 'd eat any of those flowers . ’ |
| 9 | It 'll be a long time before the word ‘ mother ’ becomes as dirty a word as he suggested it would . |
| 10 | On Microsoft 's Windows New Technology , the Sun chief told Wall Street last week that he reckoned ‘ it 'll be a long time before information managers start drinking that Kool-Aid . ’ |
| 11 | McNealy-on-NT : the Sun chief told Wall Street last week that he reckoned ‘ it 'll be a long time before information managers start drinking that Kool-Aid . ’ |
| 12 | It 'll be a long time before children 's nurse Peggy Margrave again feels safe in her own home . |
| 13 | It 'll be a long time before children 's nurse Peggy Margrave again feels safe in her own home . |
| 14 | It 'll be a long time before children 's nurse Peggy Margrave again feels safe in her own home . |
| 15 | Nevertheless it could be a long time before any human decisions acquired sufficient accord to be entered as units of ‘ goodness ’ and assigned to the Created God . |
| 16 | But if it 's something mechanical , like a car , erm stereo equipment , erm a home computer something like that , a washing machine , it could be a long time before a mechanical fault became apparent . |
| 17 | It would be a long time before all of this changed very much — and certainly it had not by the time of the Crowther Report in 1959 ( see Chapter 8 ) . |
| 18 | Tom equalled the championship record of 276 with a 70 and I thought it would be a long time before it would be broken . |
| 19 | It would be a long time before anyone inherited — and his sons knew that sooner or later Henry would take something from them to give to the youngest of them all , John . |
| 20 | The Santa Cruz Operation was taking a bullish attitude towards the launch of Destiny last week , pointing out that it was a technology , not a product announcement , and saying that it would be a long time before the package would support the large range of peripherals in the SCO catalogue : SCO also claimed to offer pretty much everything offered by Destiny , including DOS/Windows emulation and Motif — which SCO ships , not just supports — claiming its distribution network was mature and widespread , and said it was more interested in the networked and multi-user system market than the PC and Mac replacement that USL is interested in . |
| 21 | He laughed and said it was beyond his remit and that it would be a long time before public health became a genuine national concept . |
| 22 | I parted with a feeling that it would be a long time before I earned her forgiveness , but I did her an injustice . |
| 23 | It would be a long time before revolution could succeed in the New World . |
| 24 | It would be a long time before he stopped despising himself for having succumbed to a purely physical attraction , and that towards a woman he despised . |
| 25 | It would mean returning to Wellington with a broken heart , and despite their short acquaintance she already knew it would be a long time before she would be able to evict him from her thoughts . |
| 26 | I peeled off my clothes and took a long shower — it would be a long time before I took a bath again , and certainly not round at Sunil 's — and treated myself to a proper shave with hot water and a razor . |
| 27 | After the baptism of Clovis the kingdom of the Franks was theoretically a Christian state ; that is not to say that all its members were Christian — indeed it would be a long time before the Christianization of the Merovingian kingdom was complete . |
| 28 | It would be a long time before she boarded any plane with equanimity . |
| 29 | But it will be a long time before that system is fully installed . |
| 30 | Since it will be a long time before the reflective process turns into action plans , we shall have to make do with what we already know and for the purposes of this chapter we can relate it to Level Three Partnership . |