Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] be [art] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | The couple caring for the baby in their Middlesbrough home realise there is a long way to go . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The house price collapse of the last few years has been a terrible dose of cold turkey for the home owning classes , but has it been a long enough agony to drive out the idea that there 's something inherently beneficial about rising house prices . |
| 4 | I do n't , I 've never known of any , no I have n't know of any at Willenhall , but erm as I say it 's a long way you know through |
| 5 | He put up his hands and found it was a long strand of seaweed . |
| 6 | I want to have this man drive me in his car all night long , for us never to arrive anywhere … but if we should then let the gates swing silently open , let there be a long gravel drive , let it be like when the young master comes home from school . |
| 7 | He says it 's a long stretch of road and you need at least two service areas . |
| 8 | Who says it 's no longer funny ? |
| 9 | Besides , Adam had said it was a long detour to get back on to the main road , if this lane was cut off . |
| 10 | ‘ 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 . |
| 11 | 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 |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | If all else fails , remember there is a longer limitation period for non-personal injury losses and that that part of the claim can proceed in any event . |
| 14 | ‘ I know it 's a long way , ’ she is saying , ‘ I 've never been here myself , before today . |
| 15 | ‘ I know it 's a long way , ’ I say , ‘ I do n't even know which line to take on the underground . |
| 16 | I know it 's a long time ago |
| 17 | Are you gon na send any , Catriona I know it 's a long way away but |
| 18 | I know it 's a long way off but you mentioned retirement yesterday . |
| 19 | In a study of miraculous images of Mary which weep , the author , Father Hebert SM , after saying there is a long history of these writes , ‘ There has never been such an outpouring of tears as there has been in this century … more explicitly during the ten years , 1971–1981 , particularly so in Italy and in the United States ’ . |
| 20 | I 'm not saying it 's no longer important to win , it is , but then it was really vital . |
| 21 | I suppose it is the long term effects which need this particularly study . |
| 22 | Well it 's alright it 's not that long I suppose it 's a long time when you 're six . |
| 23 | ‘ I thought we were a long way from anything out here . |
| 24 | The end of year deadline for eradication of asbestos-contaminated rolling stock , agreed many years ago between BR and the unions , was quietly and mutually forgotten when it was realised it was a long way from being achieved unless services were decimated . |
| 25 | I mean it is a longer training now , what it used to be . |
| 26 | see , yeah I mean it 's a long way out is n't it , yeah you could n't get there you see , mm |
| 27 | I mean it 's a long drive down south |
| 28 | I think it can do , I mean it was a long time ago and I 'm , I 'm |
| 29 | Caroline Spry , the Channel 4 commissioning editor responsible for series like Out on Tuesday and Women Call the Shots , thinks it 's no longer possible to use the word in its old sense any more ; most of the other women I spoke to agreed with her . |
| 30 | I still think there 's a long way to go and there 's a very , very variable standard if you take motorway service areas . |