Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [prep] [adv] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eight authors and seven illustrators have been placed on unusually long shortlists for the Carnegie and Greenaway Awards . |
| 2 | He asked members to support the motion so that the Attorney General as a member of the Government and as leader of this profession could convey to the Government our sense of disgust at the way we had been treated for so long ( sustained applause ) . |
| 3 | The importance of readability has been upheld for so long that all manner of methods have been devised for its measurement . |
| 4 | If they 're offered at very long odds , the statistics demonstrate even more clearly although the odds are long they 're not long enough to make the be fair . |
| 5 | The deepest headings , approx. 14cm ( 5 ½in ) , are used with particularly long curtains to give a better proportion and are sold in two varieties — one for use with a track , the other with a pole . |
| 6 | These names are either prescribed by law ( wholemeal bread ) or clearly descriptive ( beef stew and dumpling ) or , in the case of fish fingers , the name has been used for so long that everyone knows what they are . |
| 7 | ‘ We 've been isolated for so long and we all thought we were so bloody good but now we have to accept the reality that we are not . ’ |
| 8 | In general , though , they vary from long-oval in shape to almost globular , are borne on rather long peduncles and , by now , will have almost entirely lost the wizened remains of the flower 's calyx . |
| 9 | Yeah but I do n't think it 's been updated for so long . |
| 10 | It is possible for the race to be won at very long odds , and on two or three occasions , assisted by Wigg , I had been able to locate the winning horse , or at least a horse in the first three , which , if the odds were long enough , nevertheless produced a satisfactory result . |
| 11 | The dry stores , says GEC , are cheaper than conventional water pools , leak less radioactivity and can be used for much longer periods . |
| 12 | As a result , impulses might be suppressed for so long that when they do eventually erupt , they can seem destructive . |
| 13 | power considerations will usually give way to efficiency — at least in profit-making enterprises , if observations are taken at sufficiently long intervals [ … |
| 14 | She was sore and uncomfortable , perhaps because she had been standing for so long and walking so much . |
| 15 | The women who do , I suspect , may never see those first grey hairs at all ; they 've been highlighting for so long that the colour of their hair has always been a matter of choice . |
| 16 | A distinction can be made between short-term potentiation ( STP ) , which decays within 1h , and long-term potentiation ( LTP ) , which is sustained for much longer periods . |
| 17 | The interview need not be long but Sheila will have discovered that there are people who will listen and she is now more likely to take up any referral she is given for more long term counselling . |
| 18 | Erm again I i would n't have thought that you know odd days here and there would have any effect but if if it 's going to more long term and the you know the amount increases then it could have an effect on your premature retirement compensation . |
| 19 | Julian May 's Jack the Bodiless ( Pan , £4.99 ) was promised for so long that when it finally came out it took everyone by surprise , including the hardback publisher HarperCollins , and it went o.p. within days of publication . |