Example sentences of "[modal v] be [art] long time " in BNC.
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| 31 | It would mean returning to Wellington with a broken heart , and despite their short acquaintance she already knew it would be a long time before she would be able to evict him from her thoughts . |
| 32 | I peeled off my clothes and took a long shower — it would be a long time before I took a bath again , and certainly not round at Sunil 's — and treated myself to a proper shave with hot water and a razor . |
| 33 | After the baptism of Clovis the kingdom of the Franks was theoretically a Christian state ; that is not to say that all its members were Christian — indeed it would be a long time before the Christianization of the Merovingian kingdom was complete . |
| 34 | To put it mildly , the phrase we seek would be a long time coming , to say nothing of the complete works of Shakespeare . |
| 35 | It would be a long time before she boarded any plane with equanimity . |
| 36 | We shall be a long time in Isvik . |
| 37 | But it will be a long time before that system is fully installed . |
| 38 | Since it will be a long time before the reflective process turns into action plans , we shall have to make do with what we already know and for the purposes of this chapter we can relate it to Level Three Partnership . |
| 39 | American manufacturers share this scepticism , ‘ It will be a long time before there 's any international graphics standard , ’ says Dave Robertson , head of the US company Computervision 's British operation . |
| 40 | The TRW group is working on the same lines-but it will be a long time before GI Joe puts his faith in orders from General Computer . |
| 41 | But we are assured it will be a long time before we see bingo or boobs in the sober pages of BRE News . |
| 42 | ‘ It will be a long time before I see you again , Willie , ’ she said . |
| 43 | The green shoots of recovery may now be twitching but it will be a long time before the unemployment figures level off . |
| 44 | ‘ It will be a long time before Patrick walks unaided but I know he will swing along with his sticks and be independent . |
| 45 | ‘ He will never be sold while I am chairman — which will be a long time yet — or while Barry Fry is manager , ’ he added . |
| 46 | The lieutenant believed ‘ it will be a long time before he can expect to be advanced to be captain in so old a corps . |
| 47 | The discipline of information science , which attempts to study all the ways in which human beings communicate information with each other and the many facilities which make it easier to perform , is in its earliest formative years , and it will be a long time before we can be sure either that the science of information is a true discipline or that it can deliver its present optimistic promises . |
| 48 | The fact remains that it will be a long time before the legal profession properly shakes off the constraints of client expectation that force it to underplay its modern role . |
| 49 | ‘ It will be a long time before I can look at you and not want you . |
| 50 | They will be voted out and it will be a long time before we have a Conservative Government in Britain again . |
| 51 | ‘ I had three chances and it will be a long time before I forget today . |
| 52 | It was so effective , it will be a long time before any of the Sicilians dare to attack us again , if ever ! ’ |
| 53 | ‘ And I think it will be a long time before you grow old , Shelley . ’ |
| 54 | ‘ Despite what people say , I think it will be a long time until black people are going to be in a position to do that . |
| 55 | Three years can be a long time in a young life , Bernice concluded , and three years in Bernice 's century had certainly changed Ace . |
| 56 | She added : ‘ You have to make a big commitment to complete distance learning courses , and two years can be a long time when you are faced with constant learning . |