Example sentences of "[be] a long way " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ There 's quite a cloud of smoke , ’ muttered Heather uneasily , ‘ and we 're a long way from it up here . |
2 | ‘ Ah well , my dear , you must remember they 're a long way from home , and many of them have n't had much feminine company for a while . |
3 | ‘ Of course , they look smaller when they 're a long way off , ’ Masklin muttered . |
4 | They 're a long way away . ’ |
5 | As I said , I 'm never often out , and if you 're a long way from home it 's always good to have some place to drop in to . |
6 | We 're a long way from Cambridge now , and my name is Rose . ’ |
7 | But it 's hard on Tour when you 're a long way from home and the only creature comforts you have are a television , a telephone and a McDonald 's around the corner . |
8 | ‘ But they 're a long way away . ’ |
9 | You 're a long way from home here , right ? |
10 | ‘ And you 're a long way from being a saint , are n't you ? ’ he drawled mischievously . |
11 | If things go drastically wrong and you 're a long way from home and need to call for help the most effective way is with an orange smoke flare . |
12 | We 're a long way off retiring yet , Marlene . |
13 | But , I mean we 're a long way from that , and I do n't want people to think that I 'm from saying er redundancies are imminent , er |
14 | We 're a long way from anywhere here , Fran . |
15 | It 's mainly the feeling of insecurity when they 're a long way out from a telephone . |
16 | when you go into the villa , A you 've , got to have a car because there 's not a shop and B you 're a long way from the airport and if you get taxis you 're talking about fifty pound a touch from the airport , so that 's twice , so there 's a hundred pound gone already |
17 | The Conservatives have been a long way ahead of Labour not just in seats ( an arbitrary effect of the electoral system ) but also in votes . |
18 | Seagram , last year 's winner , has been a long way behind that excellence this season , as has Bonanza Boy , the 1991 favourite , whose desertion by Peter Scudamore was clearly influenced by the drying conditions . |
19 | Whitaker also had Gammon entered in the World Cup final but , as his wife Claire said yesterday : ‘ It would have been a long way to go with just one horse . |
20 | ‘ That was the turning point — had I gone 2-1 down it would have been a long way back ’ said the Ayrshire man later . |
21 | The new appointments demonstrate a commitment by the Saatchi brothers to restore the company 's fortunes and suggest they are a long way from turning their backs on the business they built . |
22 | ‘ You are a long way from Achnacarry , Piper ! |
23 | Indeed in many cases they are a long way away from having done so . |
24 | At the same time , many of the disadvantaged areas , such as parts of the Mediterranean , Scotland and western Ireland , are a long way from urban and industrial centres . |
25 | The only other sense man has had any success in recording and reproducing on its own is sight , although moving pictures and videos are a long way from fooling the human eye in quite the way sound can fool the ear . |
26 | Such interviews provide an index of ‘ psychological malaise ’ but they are a long way from producing the more concrete statistics provided by medical consultation , prescription levels and mortality rates . |
27 | Anne was right in saying that ‘ you tend to lose the origin of it ’ ; the origins are a long way from what remains , but it does not really matter . |
28 | For the guerrillas of Guatemala 's URNG , peace and a return to party politics are a long way off . |
29 | We are a long way from liberating the woman from the artificial status of woman artist , which only serves to segregate her further and prevents her working as an individual professional artist , regardless of her political stance — do we call a man a male artist ? |
30 | We are a long way from Egypt , but in many ways the secular world is as merciless as Islam . |