Example sentences of "is [verb] to be a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | As we said , we would n't be on the picket line now , and indeed the Union would not be backing us in what is proving to be a long and fairly expensive dispute , if we did n't believe that we had a very good chance of getting our jobs back and re-establishing the Union in Pergammon Press . |
| 2 | After Leeds slipped towards the relegation zone with a 3-1 defeat at Blackburn on Saturday , McAllister forecast : ‘ It is going to be a long hard winter . |
| 3 | Erm Oh dear this is going to be a long list of things I was supposed to do but did n't . |
| 4 | This is going to be a long and difficult task ; difficult , but in my view , absolutely essential . |
| 5 | Dozens of boxes of documents were taken into court at the start of the complicated trial , a trial which the jury were warned by the judge , is going to be a long haul . |
| 6 | We are given a picture of death , the death of Pip 's real chance for ever finding contentment , and he sees that it is going to be a long , hard struggle back to finding happiness in life , it is a test of Pip 's strength of character . |
| 7 | So in , rational grounds y y you would be arguing that , that if we 're going to set this policy up we 're going to have to accept that i it 's going , it is going to be a long term policy . |
| 8 | So if , if one is accepting that , that strategy you would expect there to be statements along the lines of er ye yes this is going to be a long term process , etcetera . |
| 9 | PHIL WINROW , pictured below , is aiming to be a long range snooker star . |