Example sentences of "[pron] be [art] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the same time , I 'm a long way from being young enough to imagine , as you do , that marriage is the answer to all life 's little problems . |
| 2 | What you would do in your case with children is probably appoint them all and then they do n't all have to prove so they would hopefully discuss this at the time and say Well you know I 'm a long way away why do n't you two get on with . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'm a long way away , Simon , ’ said my dad . |
| 4 | I 'm a long way from that , though . |
| 5 | Unluckily , however , I was a long way from her at table . |
| 6 | I was a long time because everyone was gassing in the shop . |
| 7 | Sorry I was a long time I did n't |
| 8 | The bulk of this chapter has been taken up with a discussion of the relationship between the undergraduate curriculum and just two of Lawton 's eight ‘ cultural sub-systems ’ — the social and the economic although the latter has led us into areas which are a long way from the purely economic , and seems to yield a useful typology of undergraduate courses . |
| 9 | And , you know , I get stuff which comes at me and I pass on to someone else and gradually the process goes until it finishes up in the wastepaper bin , and usually they 're the ones which are the longest which do n't get read . |
| 10 | the finish is at Drumlanrig castle … they 've been running … slipping … sliding over the mounatins for seven hours … they 've climbed into the clouds … they 've crossed the streams … they 've run through the glens for mile after mile … the Oxfordshire team of Bunn and Thetford were up to second place but have finished fourth … its been a long hard day … |
| 11 | The daily conference over , it 's on to the main activity of the day for me , which is a Long Northwind Patrol . |
| 12 | Which is a long time to go without It . |
| 13 | I suppose , after all , I 've had it since ‘ 66 , so I 've been well known for 26 years , which is a long time , and I do n't get anything much out of it any more . ’ |
| 14 | So find the right angle which is usually pretty obvious and the side opposite that the longest side is the hypotenuse which is a long word . |
| 15 | Behind the house , the railway embankment stretches straight and level in both directions as far as the eye can see , which is a long way . |
| 16 | My father had a and he said it would be forty seven , say it would likely be forty seven , but that 's forty seven is two year eight month away , which is a long time for me to keep it going . |
| 17 | And Liz lives in Cheltenham , which is a long way away . ’ |
| 18 | And he must have been testin' in part fur flight refuellin' because Rodriguez says in his book he was refuelled somewhere over the Bellingshausen Sea , which is a long way west of the area where Sunderby lost his life . ’ |
| 19 | Which is a long and irrelevant preamble to saying it 's an obvious priority , and more congenial , to write to you and acknowledge with warm thanks and much acclamation the copy of Litterära Strövtåg i London , which arrived yesterday and is already much browsed-through . |
| 20 | Is not there a case for introducing a statutory bank holiday between the August bank holiday and Christmas , which is a long period ? |
| 21 | which is a long ride it 's nearly four hours away from the villa were n't it ? |
| 22 | This part of the earth which is a long way away from the moon it 's as far away from the moon as you can get the opposite side of the earth , has got less than it 's fair share of gravity from the system because it 's so far away from the moon . |
| 23 | Well St Aldate 's in the Civil War is quite a problem to talk about really , erm in half an hour , because it 's so enmeshed in the story of Oxford in the Civil War which is a long , very interesting one , so what I 'm going to try and do is erm to pick out some of the local landmarks that did survive in the 17th century and relate them to what we know about some of the people and in this short half an hour , just try and picture what it was like to live in St Aldate 's during the civil war . |
| 24 | Okay right which is the long one which is the longest one ? |
| 25 | Okay right which is the long one which is the longest one ? |
| 26 | Which is the longest day of the year ? |
| 27 | The men stood aside and she walked in between them … almost stumbled in between them ; and then she was in a large room in the middle of which was a long table covered in oilcloth . |
| 28 | This morning she had started out late for Pack Meeting , so instead of going by the woodland path , which was a long way round , she 'd taken the direct route by road and arrived in time . |
| 29 | I recalled Nigel 's telling me that he got tired of signing his name , which was a long one , on forms required by local government each week and for which his office was responsible , and started signing Karl Marx and Adolf Hitler and other such notable figures of history . |
| 30 | They developed a theory of the state which was a long way removed from the rational calculative tendencies of utilitarianism and provided a justification for the role of the state in the spheres of economic life and welfare which went beyond what has usually been countenanced within Liberalism , whether based on utilitarianism or Lockean theory . |