Example sentences of "it [verb] [vb pp] [art] long [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | But if a child mutates in a big way , so that it has moved a long distance away from its parent in genetic space , what are the odds of its being better than its parent ? |
2 | Another dealer explained : ‘ There are some punters who will buy a stock just because it has fallen a long way . ’ |
3 | France has had no super-communications ministry ; but it has had a long tradition of state control , planning and Jacobin centralism . |
4 | It has come a long way in the last decade . |
5 | One of these types is the de Havilland Canada DHC-4 Caribou and over the years it has attracted a long list of very satisfied customers . |
6 | It has taken a long time to reduce the effects of that defect but it is now under control . |
7 | It has taken a long time to get justice but the compensation will give financial security to my family and give us sufficient breathing space to try and rebuild our lives . |
8 | ‘ It has taken a long time getting Australian rugby to the top and we are n't about to throw that away in one game , ’ he added . |
9 | Surprisingly , it has taken a long time to arrange something that most would have considered to be basic . |
10 | It has taken a long time for such unashamed aspiration to reach these shores , yet now , that mentality which is increasingly being demanded by the British in pursuance of their leisure activities , has finally arrived . |
11 | It has taken a long time for those engaged in mainstream adult education to attribute any significance to the Women 's Movement . |
12 | It has taken a long time to get justice but the compensation will give financial security to my family and give us sufficient breathing space to try and rebuild our lives . |
13 | Has that come up in your er in your well we were coming back there one night from my aunt 's and er there were quite a lot of policemen about and I was only a little boy , it was before the First World War and my father said to one of these policemen , what 's happening so , oh we had a tip-off he says that er there 's these Whirly Gang folks and in the morning we saw somebody 'd been maimed or killed , but er that was another bit of interesting news around , and I remember down in Caldmore one day there used to be some ladies who used to come from , well they used to be , one of them used to call them the salt ladies , they used to come with blocks of salt on a , on a I think they used to come from and I saw a horse there as a kid and I , it had got a long gash right across its body and I said to this lady I said , what 's happened to this , she said oh the Whirly Gang and er I was in Paris in nineteen twenty two and er we got to this hotel and there was another Englishman on this trip and he said to me he said where do you come from ? |
14 | It had taken a long while , Harry thought as he glanced fondly at Cora-Beth , before he had got over Madeleine 's rejection of him and the shock of her marriage to Dunbar . |
15 | Having said that he was very immature the report added that there had been considerable improvement , but it had taken a long time ( he had only been at school for four terms and had had a change of teacher ) . |
16 | It had taken a long time for the initial hostility and suspicion between them to wear off . |
17 | It had seemed a long way away , but in some ways it might be quite close . |
18 | Once I noticed the familiar gap in a row of houses like the space left by a drawn tooth , but I could not be certain that it was the result of bombing and if it was it had happened a long time ago . |
19 | It 's got a long history , lots of it confused as you 'd expect in Oxford of course . |
20 | It 's got a long garden |
21 | No actually it does n't have a curve , it is a triangle but it 's got a longer base has n't it ? |
22 | That one 's nice over by there cos it 's got the long hair . |
23 | Some of you er you know it 's taken a long time to get this message over . |
24 | It was then , and still is now , very much an island holiday paradise , but it 's come a long way from what were fairly basic beginnings and in addition to natural beauty can now offer resorts as modern and sophisticated as anywhere else in the Med . |
25 | Of course , it 's come a long way since then — full colour on every page , two Megatapes each month . |
26 | It 's come a long way |
27 | it 's come a long way since we had Lego . |