Example sentences of "[pron] [be] a long way " 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 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | And Liz lives in Cheltenham , which is a long way away . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | He took her back to her flat in Putney , which was a long way , and she turned out to be keen on cocoa . |
| 14 | Rotary committee chairman Tony Dennett said : ‘ The lunch is an ideal opportunity for us to provide hospitality to these students who are a long way from home . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ You are a long way from Achnacarry , Piper ! |
| 16 | If you keep him quiet you are a long way down the road to achieving some success at Leeds . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | You 're a long way from home here , right ? |
| 20 | ‘ And you 're a long way from being a saint , are n't you ? ’ he drawled mischievously . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 |
| 23 | Oh we had whistles , and strangely enough , very seldom did we use them , simply because there were other traffic about that time if you were a long way away , er you might be nearly to , if you blew your whistle , there were nobody to hear you , I mean people in houses , and they were only few and far between . |
| 24 | She 's dizzy , she 's a long way off . |
| 25 | She 's a long way away . |
| 26 | She 's a long way from any source of supply and if there 's something that has to be specially made , or is too bulky to fly out — a new engine , for instance … ’ |
| 27 | It is also significant that the steam turbine and the pneumatic tyre were the only major British innovations of this period ; in the new industries she was a long way behind Germany and the United States and by 1914 was falling behind even in the older industries in which she had first established her supremacy . |
| 28 | She was a long way from believing him . |
| 29 | Though she was learning to cope , she was a long way from being over Guido yet . |
| 30 | 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 ? |