Example sentences of "be [vb pp] a long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | They were gone a long time . |
| 32 | It may be that there is now enough information available to answer questions that were asked a long time ago but never answered . |
| 33 | Wood Group Fire Protection 's Great Yarmouth branch performed well across its whole product range and was successful in being awarded a long term maintenance contract with Shell Expro . |
| 34 | Metals was used for barrels but only for ones that were being taken a long way away like wine barrels that were being taken to or from Gascony . |
| 35 | What is more , much of government expenditure is committed a long time in advance and can not easily be cut . |
| 36 | ‘ It 's taken a long time for the guilt to surface . ’ |
| 37 | ‘ She 's taken a long time to throw off the illness and is still not fully fit , ’ said Sheppard 's Milngavie and Bearsden coach , Alex McNeil . |
| 38 | ‘ Therese and Loulou , ’ said Giles , ‘ have been married a long time . |
| 39 | Where direct rule had been established a long time — in India , for example — it provided a framework in which there could grow an acceptance of European ideas of political organization . |
| 40 | Taking his troubles to his doctor , he was given a long prescription , which he presented to the chemist without first reading it . |
| 41 | While researching my article , I was given a long briefing at Falkland House in London , by a Falkland Islands councillor nominated by the Islands ' London representative . |
| 42 | Iain Christie , chairman of the processing group , said : ‘ This promotion was arranged a long time ago , before this import situation surfaced . |
| 43 | Can only assume this was designed a long time ago , say roughly 1983 ; surely even Peter Snow must now realise that a Labour landslide is rather more likely than a Tory one . |
| 44 | ( Later we learn that her body was carried a long distance on someone 's back , for there are only a few places in Tibet where sky burials are performed . ) |
| 45 | The defendant dock company , a wholly owned subsidiary of a port authority , was granted a long lease of part of a disused naval dockyard and applied to the plaintiff local authority for planning permission to develop the land as a commercial port . |
| 46 | No , this was done a long while ago , |
| 47 | It was decided a long time ago and the waiting is over . ’ |
| 48 | The estate was sold a long time ago to the Dukes of Devonshire and was tenanted at one time by the Reverend Thomas Fosbroke , the celebrated antiquary . |
| 49 | ‘ When I step back from it all , I see tennis was invented a long time ago . |
| 50 | Brown Owl was gone a long time , but at last she came back , and leaning on her arm and limping was the pilot of the plane . |
| 51 | Ooh I was taken a long time ago . |
| 52 | ‘ The entire community was resettled a long time ago . |
| 53 | 2.25:GOLD CUP hero Cool Ground was beaten a long way behind Tipping Tim at Wetherby three weeks ago , and is best watched for the time being . |
| 54 | She might say ‘ no' ’ even if it was planned a long time . |