Example sentences of "[be] [noun] [prep] a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had been part of a long stream of women who had come and gone swiftly , lives collapsing in one area as they gained power and certainty in another . |
| 2 | For Brazil , which had been the US 's chief Latin American ally among surrounding neutrals in World War II , the decline of the bipolar alliance system has been part of a long , slow process of growing mutual disenchantment . |
| 3 | We 've been pals for a long time . |
| 4 | This is particularly true of regulations in heavily regulated fields such as agriculture , where they may be part of a long string of related measures or be limited to implementing a regulation of broader scope . |
| 5 | He gave the Bookman a big hug and hoped they would be friends for a long , long time . |
| 6 | There 's been road for a long , long time now . |
| 7 | These elements were part of a long and complex history of German restlessness and Polish insecurity — ideas that the British , French and Americans , secure in thoroughly different kinds of national , linguistic and cultural identities , could not even begin to chart . |
| 8 | And even her clothes , once you had got over the original shock , were part of a long tradition of home-made outfits dating back to her days at the Mother Theresa Convent , South Wimbledon . |
| 9 | ‘ People thought we were idiots for a long time , ’ remembers Kelly . |
| 10 | We are , we are debt free , we 've been debt for a long time . |
| 11 | Like all the plans I will suggest , it is not imaginary ; this is part of a long , north-east facing border in my own garden . |
| 12 | However , the preoccupation with violence and lawlessness is part of a long and continuous tradition , rather than a new and unique phenomenon . |
| 13 | Such thinking is part of a long tradition , finding its most clear formulation in the political philosophy of Hobbes where human society is presented as being in a state of ‘ warre ’ in which every man fights every other man for control of resources and for the ( presumed ) pleasure of dominance . |
| 14 | In his influential Le Même et l'autre Vincent Descombes has described the entire history of twentieth-century philosophy in France as a succession of moves which attempt to get out of this Hegelian dialectic : the recent phenomenon of poststructuralism is part of a long philosophical story and distinguished only by what appears to be a certain success , or at least an avoidance of failure to the extent that it has at least managed to keep the game with Hegel in play . |
| 15 | As to who would provide the care she said that where there is care over a long period of time , families often stop employing carers through an agency . |
| 16 | Two thousand miles to the east of St Petersburg , the boxcar was part of a long train that had started out in St Petersburg a week earlier and had gone along the Trans-Siberian Railway . |
| 17 | Drugs were also seized and police say it was part of a long term campaign , codenamed Operation Lucy and targeted on a guns and drug network . |