Example sentences of "[vb mod] be a long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Richmond Town Council believes The Fosse should be a long stay car park because it used by day trippers who spend their day at the riverside . |
| 2 | But , in practice , there should be a long term programme of washing coal , extracting the sulphur from carbon , extracting flue gases , and building fluidised beds . |
| 3 | The RENFE train station must be a long way from the centre , I thought , just as we began to enter the acid neon groves of the darkening city , through a narrow glade of brightly lit shops , the Corrielo , then through a vast archway — a policeman 's shrill whistle — and the bus was rolling and swinging right into the grand Plaza Mayor , which it circled slowly , triumphantly hooting . |
| 4 | This must be a long term love affair . |
| 5 | It must be a long time , he thought , since Dad had travelled this far . |
| 6 | It must be a long time since they were cleaned ; they are very dirty . |
| 7 | It must be a long time since anyone — except the most die-hard old buffer — can have thought them outrageous . |
| 8 | Must be a long time ago love is n't it since we had best butter . |
| 9 | Anyway , off he went to the phone , asking me en route to make sure Clare did n't get too bored waiting , because it might be a long call . |
| 10 | She wished she could think of something to say that would make him trust her , only after her stupid behaviour earlier she thought it might be a long time before he fully believed her . |
| 11 | ‘ It might be a long business . ’ |
| 12 | Might be a long walk , but it would be nice . |
| 13 | ‘ It 'll be a long night , with much talk , and we must fortify ourselves beforehand as best we may … ’ |
| 14 | Anyway , we 'll take a cab , it 'll be a long night I expect . |
| 15 | It 'll be a long day for him wo n't it ? |
| 16 | ‘ It 'll be a long job at his age , ’ said his Mum . |
| 17 | It 'll be a long job — ’ |
| 18 | Oh yeah , oh it 'll be a long mean fought out battle . |
| 19 | It 'll be a long time before you 'd eat any of those flowers . ’ |
| 20 | It 'll be a long time before the word ‘ mother ’ becomes as dirty a word as he suggested it would . |
| 21 | On Microsoft 's Windows New Technology , the Sun chief told Wall Street last week that he reckoned ‘ it 'll be a long time before information managers start drinking that Kool-Aid . ’ |
| 22 | McNealy-on-NT : the Sun chief told Wall Street last week that he reckoned ‘ it 'll be a long time before information managers start drinking that Kool-Aid . ’ |
| 23 | It 'll be a long time before children 's nurse Peggy Margrave again feels safe in her own home . |
| 24 | It 'll be a long time before children 's nurse Peggy Margrave again feels safe in her own home . |
| 25 | It 'll be a long time before children 's nurse Peggy Margrave again feels safe in her own home . |
| 26 | This obviously is n't going to come up as an issue for quite a long time , since transcribing this 'll be a long time . |
| 27 | It 'll be a long walk , but I 'll get there — all in one piece . ’ |
| 28 | Behind my annoyance the self-preserving part of my mind was pointing out that the sooner I got going , the sooner I could be a long way from Fraxilly farmland . |
| 29 | It may I I appreciate Mr , that that is a long way away or could be a long way away from the sort of public consultation which one . |
| 30 | If the Bank refuses to accept these offers then the amount of assistance provided in the first round could be a long way short of the overall amount of assistance needed during the day . |