Example sentences of "[noun sg] be [verb] long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tracer laid stitches across the sky : the bombers still in formation were firing long shots at him . |
| 2 | ‘ But does it not intrigue you ’ , Miss Honey said , ‘ that a little five-year-old child is reading long adult novels by Dickens and Hemingway ? |
| 3 | With a shrug of her shoulders , Charlotte rose and accompanied Ursula out through the kitchen and into the garden , where a calm and picturesque evening was spreading long shadows and rectangles of gold across the lawn . |
| 4 | Another way of doing this kind of analysis is to treat long vowels and diphthongs as composed of a vowel plus a consonant ; this may seem a less obvious way of proceeding , but it was for many years the choice of most American phonologists . |
| 5 | Only coal was moved long distances by canals , railways and roads . |
| 6 | There are different ways of doing this : one way is to treat long vowels and diphthongs as composed of two vowel phonemes . |
| 7 | She never saw her father again , but after Georg Wilhelm 's death a certain relaxation took place , her mother being permitted long visits to her court at Ahlden . |
| 8 | One solution is to have long bridles , so reducing the effect and in a way de-sensitising the bridle changes . |