Example sentences of "[pron] is a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | The daily conference over , it 's on to the main activity of the day for me , which is a Long Northwind Patrol . |
| 2 | Which is a long time to go without It . |
| 3 | 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 . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | And Liz lives in Cheltenham , which is a long way away . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Is not there a case for introducing a statutory bank holiday between the August bank holiday and Christmas , which is a long period ? |
| 11 | which is a long ride it 's nearly four hours away from the villa were n't it ? |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | As Miller argues , there is a long tradition among the protestants of Ulster of viewing the British state ambiguously . |
| 15 | Rodgers knows there is a long way to go before the big one in December , but he has the makings of a strong , hard pack and the chance of additional talent behind them providing injury does not intervene . |
| 16 | There is a long list of sacked ministers who have objected to her style . |
| 17 | There is a long tradition in Britain of hostility to ‘ political espionage ’ , some of which surfaces in this book . |
| 18 | In the workshop , overlooking the sea , there is a long ex-grocery bench that came from Ingrid 's grandfather 's shop . |
| 19 | But there is a long way to go . |
| 20 | There is a long list of greenhouse plants in no need of artificial heat and an even greater number of those which do , with an indication as to whether they require a very hot stove or moderate warmth . |
| 21 | There is a long promenade to stroll down , but the focal point of the resort is the village square . |
| 22 | Clearly there is a long way to go , and this lack of financial resources is not helping . |
| 23 | But there is a long way to go . |
| 24 | Although there appears to be little documentary evidence to support it , there is a long tradition that Trinity Mill , at some time in its life , was a fulling mill . |
| 25 | Most studies of latent inhibition use procedures in which there are many widely spaced presentations of the target stimulus and there is a long interval ( frequently of 24 h ) between the last pre-exposure trial and the first trial of conditioning . |
| 26 | The effect of sea water on a basaltic magma is sometimes clearly displayed in places like Hawaii if there is a long active fissure , extending from inland towards the coast . |
| 27 | There is a long way to go . |
| 28 | There is a long pause and at last the voice says . |
| 29 | In Jamaica there is a long history of environmental change due to land-use practices . |
| 30 | Also the ghost stories of certain houses came in for comment and there is a long note on the haunting of Calgarth Hall . |