Example sentences of "is [verb] [prep] [art] long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At 1100 hours all is set and the parade ground is filled by the long ranks of the 180 members of Training Company and the Pegasus Band all awaiting the arrival of the Inspecting Officer , Brigadier Mike Scott DSO CBE , who commanded the 1st Battalion of the Scots Guards in the Falklands War . |
| 2 | The performance of the housewife role in adulthood is prefaced by a long period of apprenticeship . |
| 3 | Ethnographic research has special qualities suited to dealing with controversial topics in sensitive locations , for it entails a gradual and progressive contact with respondents , which is sustained over a long period , allowing a rapport to be established slowly with respondents over time , and for researchers to participate in the full range of experiences involved in the topic . |
| 4 | Ipswich 's other newcomer , German Andre Pollehn , will also be missing as he is committed to a long track meeting in his own country that day . |
| 5 | The house is approached by a long drive through pastoral fields . |
| 6 | " I love foliage and I think you have to rely a lot on that in small gardens because you do n't have room to leave dormant areas where nothing is happening for a long period , " she says . |
| 7 | The official definition of long-term unemployment is more than twelve months without work , although employment training , which is designed for the long term unemployed , requires entrants to have been on the register for more than six months . |
| 8 | The column itself is decorated by a long relief frieze wound round from top to bottom and representing episodes from the Emperor 's Dacian campaigns . |
| 9 | At the time of writing , the THORP plant is in fact nearing completion , and the Sellafield management is boasting of the long list of multimillion pound contracts it has already won to reprocess nuclear fuel from around the world . |
| 10 | Consider for example , that ( Fig. 7.6 ) will be parsed as Europe lie rather than your reply , since is matched to the long word Europe and is matched to lie . |
| 11 | Also in the crypt is the Duomo treasury , a pay-to-enter collection that is closed for a long period at lunch . |
| 12 | There is a lot of space , which is needed on a long tour ! |
| 13 | What is needed in the long term is a larger worship area which can be adapted for other uses . |
| 14 | Most commentators on mental health care agree that some people with severe mental illnesses ( mostly those with chronic schizophrenia ) need the safe , full time specialist care that is offered in the long stay wards of the old asylums . |
| 15 | ( a ) Education. : A clear idea of exactly what coronary artery disease means is most important for the coronary patient if he is to comply in the long term with the advice that he is given , and understand what has happened to him . |
| 16 | The cause of Mr Hemingway 's ‘ uncharacteristic errors ’ — failing to see that the old wire was detached at the fuse end and insulated at the relay end — is attributed to the long hours he worked . |
| 17 | The film is based on a long novel by Pat Conroy which deals with the excavation of the past , a current favourite theme . |
| 18 | One of the men in the physiology department of the university here is taking them tomorrow as he is to stay with for a week , who is due home c. 13th and then the judge in whose house I so often stay in London IS coming for a long weekend c. 19th and then I have two or three B&B bods for Festival , giving up our bedroom ( UGH ) . |
| 19 | Mr Leslie 's train was to leave platform 3 on the far left-hand side of the station which is linked by a long subway . |
| 20 | Sottomarina is linked by a long bridge , across the lagoon , to the town of Chioggia , ‘ Little Venice ’ , made up of narrow-straight canals and streets , hump-back bridges and colourful houses — it is one of the great wonders of Italy . |
| 21 | Each parcel of butter is tasted with a long scoop and then re-weighed before a buyer will accept it . |
| 22 | Each individual cuckoo nestling is descended from a long line of ancestral cuckoo nestlings , every single one of whom must have succeeded in manipulating its foster-parent . |
| 23 | But each individual foster-parent is descended from a long line of ancestors many of whom never encountered a cuckoo in their lives . |
| 24 | The fact that the BRCA1 gene for breast cancer is flanked on the long arm of chromosome 17 by the THRA1 gene for the thyroid hormone receptor may be important in this respect . |
| 25 | The ability of an elastomer to regain its former size , when extensions of up to 400 per cent have been experienced , is associated with the long chain character of the material . |
| 26 | It seems to us to be an evolutionary survival factor : the more intelligent a species , the more likely it is to survive in the long term ; this is a reasonable hypothesis , but it can hardly be considered as any more than that . |
| 27 | This pattern , which echoes the scheme invented by Sylvester for the Tate Gallery more than twenty years ago and encourages a focus upon single works , is continued in the long gallery of the ground floor where paintings from 1929 to 1939 are placed on both sides of a partition wall . |
| 28 | At the University of Edinburgh , where the Department of English Literature is the oldest-established in Great Britain , continuity is maintained with the long tradition of literary study here . |
| 29 | On the west side are the twin escarpments of Fell End Clouds and Stennerskeugh Clouds , and on the east a broad shelf is pitted by a long line of shakeholes and potholes , the Angerholme Pots . |
| 30 | The gutter has an elliptical shape , is fixed with new pivot style clips and is fitted with a long radius downpipe . |