Example sentences of "[noun sg] be [art] long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They find their thinking and decision-making dominated by market and resource considerations which in their scale and complexity are a long way indeed from the traditional concept of primary headship ( Audit Commission 1991 ) . |
| 2 | Another section is equipped for charging and testing cells , while at the side is a long cell-washing shed containing four large washing tanks , acid mixing troughs , etc . |
| 3 | The result is a long list of small , but nonetheless useful improvements such as file compression and ‘ internationalisation modules ’ that enable one user to see NetWare prompts in English , while another on the same server sees them in French or Spanish . |
| 4 | Granddad 's a long way away , he 's on holiday . |
| 5 | as you 'd expect , the big attraction is the nightlife and the main drag is a long procession of bars . |
| 6 | Where a key is a long number , consisting perhaps of ten digits , but we only have 8000 records and hence need only to allocate 10 000 storage positions , we could use the last four digits of the key as a storage address . |
| 7 | Next term 's a long term as well . |
| 8 | A macromolecule is a long string , or polymer , formed of a series of similar building blocks ; these building blocks are themselves metabolites . |
| 9 | But on a spring day in the late 1700s , toil was a long way from John Binks ' mind . |
| 10 | Practice was a long way from the standard understanding of the concept of budgets based on explicit workloads and levels of activity . |
| 11 | In fact I thought the whole fairy-palace effect was a long way over the top and painfully unoriginal . |
| 12 | A Ford spokesman said he believed industrial action was a long way off . |
| 13 | In total contrast to this ancient village is the long stretch of beach , nightlife , bars and bodegas , all of which add up to make a holiday in Mojacar a most memorable and enjoyable one . |
| 14 | The car 's broken down and in this rural part of Wiltshire … help is a long way away . |
| 15 | An essential piece of equipment is a long spirit level which you use to ensure that your frame is horizontal — do not rely on lining it up with the floor or ceiling of the room . |
| 16 | MOTHERWELL Civic Hall is a long way from Las Vegas , but when Gary Jacobs defends his Commonwealth welterweight title there tonight against Donovan Boucher , the Canadian champion , he will be aiming to take the international spotlight from old stagers like Lloyd Honeyghan and Kirkland Laing . |
| 17 | That question is a long way from municipal theatres . |
| 18 | The cause of the crash was a long way from BCCI 's original aim of becoming a bank for Muslims which would link the developing world and transfer wealth from the west to the Third World . |
| 19 | So the hound was a long way behind him when he began to run . |
| 20 | Druid 's Bottom was a long way below them : a doll 's house with tall chimneys , tucked in a fold of the valley as if in the crook of an elbow . |
| 21 | The old Lords ' Act was a long time a-dying ; and non-traders were still unable to claim the benefits of bankruptcy open to traders . |
| 22 | HOPES that the Highlands and Islands could be in line for a huge European Community aid package are a long way from being fulfilled , according to the Highland Regional Council official masterminding the area 's campaign for so-called Objective One economic status . |
| 23 | If you study textbooks or correlation charts , such as those produced by the Geological Society of America and the Geological Society of London , you come inevitably to the conclusion that the stratigraphical column in any one place is a long record of sedimentation with occasional gaps . |
| 24 | The mini is a long way from what 's considered to be the first jukebox ; the Edison Phonograph . |
| 25 | This tool is a long way from the cheapest heat guns . |
| 26 | ‘ This match is a long way from being over . ’ |
| 27 | RNA is a long molecule made up of hundreds of bases of four types A , U , G , and C. RNA is made on a template of — |
| 28 | To the right was the long pool , still , intensely black , its surface like a mirror . |
| 29 | The most beautiful song of the evening was a long lament , a Bedouin song about a desert journey from Siwa on the Libyan borders to the Nile . |
| 30 | Swindon police would like to see a day when just a handful of officers turn out on match day , but their undercover operations suggest that day is a long way away . |