Example sentences of "is [vb pp] [prep] a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | The performance of the housewife role in adulthood is prefaced by a long period of apprenticeship . |
| 2 | Ethnographic research has special qualities suited to dealing with controversial topics in sensitive locations , for it entails a gradual and progressive contact with respondents , which is sustained over a long period , allowing a rapport to be established slowly with respondents over time , and for researchers to participate in the full range of experiences involved in the topic . |
| 3 | Ipswich 's other newcomer , German Andre Pollehn , will also be missing as he is committed to a long track meeting in his own country that day . |
| 4 | The house is approached by a long drive through pastoral fields . |
| 5 | The column itself is decorated by a long relief frieze wound round from top to bottom and representing episodes from the Emperor 's Dacian campaigns . |
| 6 | Also in the crypt is the Duomo treasury , a pay-to-enter collection that is closed for a long period at lunch . |
| 7 | There is a lot of space , which is needed on a long tour ! |
| 8 | The dry , rather large brownish seed is enclosed in a long , blunt wing or ‘ samara ’ , which , when it falls , spins and aids dispersal . |
| 9 | It is belted over a long overfold the lower edge of which makes a second horizontal accent , less marked and less regular than that of the belt . |
| 10 | He 'd only been in eighteen months , ’ said the Bishop , in the manner of a man who is used to a longer temporal perspective . |
| 11 | The film is based on a long novel by Pat Conroy which deals with the excavation of the past , a current favourite theme . |
| 12 | This chapter concentrates on these three national clearinghouses already established , and is based on a longer paper on the subject . |
| 13 | Mr Leslie 's train was to leave platform 3 on the far left-hand side of the station which is linked by a long subway . |
| 14 | Sottomarina is linked by a long bridge , across the lagoon , to the town of Chioggia , ‘ Little Venice ’ , made up of narrow-straight canals and streets , hump-back bridges and colourful houses — it is one of the great wonders of Italy . |
| 15 | Each parcel of butter is tasted with a long scoop and then re-weighed before a buyer will accept it . |
| 16 | Each individual cuckoo nestling is descended from a long line of ancestral cuckoo nestlings , every single one of whom must have succeeded in manipulating its foster-parent . |
| 17 | But each individual foster-parent is descended from a long line of ancestors many of whom never encountered a cuckoo in their lives . |
| 18 | ( c ) Ensure that no voucher is retained for a longer period than 14 days from receipt . |
| 19 | for example , the maintenance of blood pressure when changing from a lying to a standing position is achieved less rapidly as we age ; as a result the blood supply to the brain is decreased for a longer time and there is a greater tendency to feel dizzy . |
| 20 | This article is taken from a longer piece first published in The Independent on 19 February 1990 . |
| 21 | On the west side are the twin escarpments of Fell End Clouds and Stennerskeugh Clouds , and on the east a broad shelf is pitted by a long line of shakeholes and potholes , the Angerholme Pots . |
| 22 | The gutter has an elliptical shape , is fixed with new pivot style clips and is fitted with a long radius downpipe . |
| 23 | Good choices for bathroom lighting are enclosed ceiling-mounted lights or swivelling recessed eyeball spotlights ; pendant lighting should only be used if the lampholder is fitted with a long protective skirt . |
| 24 | As PC Lesley Harrison lies fighting for her life in hospital the Government should take immediate steps to ensure that anybody who attacks a member of any of the security services is imprisoned for a long time . |