Example sentences of "[verb] to be long " in BNC.
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| 1 | The jaws appear to be long and narrow . |
| 2 | The jaws appear to be long and narrow . |
| 3 | In the bat , the five fingers have been programmed to be long in order to support the web for flying . |
| 4 | Colitis for at least eight years is considered to be long standing . |
| 5 | Geriatric units are particularly vulnerable because treatment of UTIs tends to be long term and there is extensive use of indwelling urinary tract catheters . |
| 6 | Angela asked us for some help with her wedding day look , she had been growing her old hairstyle out but realised it was n't going to be long enough for her wedding day in September . |
| 7 | that 's going to be long term then is n't it the water |
| 8 | It was not going to be long , I reflected , before I made my contribution to discussions in 24 Stranraer Gardens via a Ouija board . |
| 9 | Feeling decidedly uncomfortable at the older woman 's frosty manner , Rachel reluctantly followed her into the sitting-room hoping that David was n't going to be long . |
| 10 | There begin to be long movements |
| 11 | Instead , nails should look natural and well-manicured but that does n't mean that they 've got to be long . |
| 12 | But they 've got to be long enough in the leg for me |
| 13 | These wider mills were thus squarer than their predecessors which had tended to be long and narrow . |
| 14 | A cork does n't have to be long to be good . |
| 15 | Good looking nails do n't have to be long . |
| 16 | Mr Mayor er I do n't want to be long in this debate because I 'm sure we 've probably all made up our minds exactly what we 're going to vote on because long evenings it stretches and turns |
| 17 | This is the first thing you notice about graphics interchange files — they tend to be long . |
| 18 | This is fundamental because , while organizations tend to be long term , financial reports usually cover only one year . |
| 19 | All of this was admitted to be long term . |
| 20 | The films were thus split into sections of five seconds each , this interval appeared to be long enough to give subjects a feeling for what was going on while still allowing them to give fairly comprehensive descriptions of the objects and events contained within each film section . |
| 21 | So , you finish the conversation , and you just flick the handset , you flick the black button in other words , you do n't fully put the handset down , so you flick the black button and you make another call and the camp on does n't mature , it does n't seem to mature because it does n't seem to be long enough for the computer to recognise that the conversation has ended . |
| 22 | The dominant type of station in the early period tended to be long and low , and ‘ picturesque theory ’ condemned such buildings as monotonous . |
| 23 | The new crystals tended to be long , smooth , whip-like filaments , initially so thin that they were hardly visible in the optical microscope . |