Example sentences of "[is] [v-ing] [art] long [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 For businesses affected by the strike , it 's proving a long wait .
2 But this is looking a long way ahead .
3 Tod is conducting a long argument , and he is telling the truth , but the invisible people who might hear and judge luckily refuse to believe him and turn away in silence , weariness and disgust .
4 THE flamboyant diamond dealer , Darius Guppy , best friend of the Princess of Wales 's brother , Earl Spencer , is facing a long prison term after being found guilty of swindling insurers out of £1.8 million .
5 For example , a client may come to a bureau because he is concerned that the housing benefit to which he is entitled is taking a long time to materialise .
6 Littleton , Massachusetts-based Alliant Computer Systems Corp is taking a long time to die — too long for Craig Mundie , who resigned as president and chief executive to accept a position with Microsoft Corp as general manager , Advanced Consumer Technologies .
7 It is taking a long time to redesign the business processes of these industries .
8 This is taking a long time .
9 This is taking a long time .
10 Formed in teams , this task it was then to er across the practice areas whose task it was to get into those clients , get to know them , get to know their industry , get to know the people and find ways in which we could actually penetrate them and er open doors and that was going to take a long time and it is taking a long time .
11 I simply say that on the debates we 've had on the Policing Bill , I 've learnt what the functions of your Noble House is all about and the speech that 's just been made from across the Chamber from me , sums up entirely my views on the matter , and I say to your Lordships House that on the basis of experience as Northern Ireland Secretary when one is a Home Secretary for a province and there 's a number of people in this House who 've had a job to do including the Noble Lord , The Noble Viscount Whitelaw who set the tone of the way we all proceeded , I accept that , the one of the things we had to do there was bring democracy back to policing and the primary force of policing is taking a long time to do and that here as Home Secretary , everything I learned there was , stop the growing centralisation and the weakening of the police authorities and police force and this Bill does exactly that But now one of the questions I 've asked myself and it 's the only point because all the points have been made that I really want to ask the Government is what are these appointees for ?
12 The working party on the theology of marriage is finding its task stimulating but arduous and it will surprise no one that it 's taking a long time .
13 It 's taking a long time to heal . ’
14 ‘ Everything official here seems to be tied up in red tape , so although it 's taking a long time I 'm sure the licence is being processed , ’ she declared defiantly .
15 ‘ She 's taking the long way back , ’ she would say , ‘ the sun 's still warm … she 's enjoying herself … she 's forgotten the time … . ’
16 ‘ It really is stretching the long arm of coincidence to breaking point — a husband and wife , both recently employed by INCUBUS , both murdered within twenty-four hours of each other .
17 She is planning a long holiday in Egypt and America and there has been talk of her working on a new ITV soap called Routes .
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