Example sentences of "is [art] [adv] long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I was struggling this morning because there is a frightfully long speech it becomes a feat of memory and if memory was the only element involved in acting then Leslie Welch the memory man would have been the greatest actor in the world . |
| 2 | There is a famously long time-lag between when work is done and when the Nobel committee doles out accolades for it . |
| 3 | I have seen one production which used the 1603 quarto version , one which used the uncut Folio text , but the majority were ‘ constructed ’ texts , omitting different passages and scenes from what is a very long play . |
| 4 | It is a very long novel ; on the other hand it seems to be one of the best novels ever written , and I would strongly recommend somebody who has perhaps read a little George Eliot to go on to that . |
| 5 | There is a very long tradition of collaboration between education and employers that stretches back to the foundation of the Mechanics Institutes in the nineteenth century — and to their even earlier precursors the Dissenting Academies — and developing through the technical colleges , colleges of advanced technology , technological universities and colleges of further and higher education . |
| 6 | It is a very long journey that we are beginning . |
| 7 | ‘ It is a very long way , for a taxi , but your uncle gave Francie the money and insisted , ’ said Finn . |
| 8 | Sorry , this is a very long way of getting around to the first crop of reviews of Philip Larkin : A Writer 's Life by Andrew Motion ( Faber ) . |
| 9 | Of course , the Planck energy is a very long way from the energies of around a hundred GeV , which are the most that we can produce in the laboratory at the present time . |
| 10 | Now Prague is a very long way from Epernay . |
| 11 | Hury is a very long reservoir . |
| 12 | A month is a very long tim in fotbal . |
| 13 | Erm , but er , it is a very long book , and er , it , it , it is a masterpiece , and if you were to read The Golden Bough , or any part of it , or any other work of Frazer 's for that matter , you would immediately be reminded of Totem and Taboo , because Frazer 's method is comparative . |
| 14 | Vienna Dear Fräulein Arandt , It is a very long time since I heard from you . |
| 15 | But it is a very long time since anyone attempted a popular history of the left in Britain . |
| 16 | One of the points we made was that even a few years in multimedia development is a very long time . |
| 17 | It is a very long piece ( probably too long ) but contains some attractive ideas . |
| 18 | Nitrogen can take up to 20 years to pollute water and , therefore , is a very long term problem . |
| 19 | But changing the corporate culture is a very long term solution ( up to ten years ) and can be a very difficult period for all involved . |
| 20 | The cases of the Birmingham Six and the Guildford Four are only the best known in what is a disturbingly long list . |
| 21 | It is a terribly long question . |
| 22 | From Cairo to Chorley is an incredibly long journey . |
| 23 | Firstly , there is an extremely long lead time before a subscription increase works its way through to our income and expenditure account . |
| 24 | ‘ Bucharest is an awful long way to go ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Bucharest is an awful long way to go ! ’ |
| 26 | Three and a half hours for a three-pound piece of veal — and on top of the stove too — is an awful long time . |