Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [prep] a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | Also , the slow course of the disease implied that any drug would have to be given for a long time in order to be effective and so would have to be particularly harmless to patients . |
| 2 | Acyclovir may be given on a long term basis to people with HIV who have had an attack of shingles , or have frequent attacks of herpes simplex . |
| 3 | And this states erm that Its effectiveness erm must be must be considered as a long term rather than a short term objective . |
| 4 | Such accommodation can often be let on a long lease or sold to raise a capital sum . |
| 5 | Historians will be occupied for a long time to come in determining the exact balance and interaction of forces — including , to mention only the more obvious , the economic disaster of the Second World War , the rise of America , and the development of nationalism — which contributed to Britain 's imperial demise . |
| 6 | Luke , she knew , would be occupied for a long time yet , drinking coffee with the other women , talking over the day , helping to cement working relationships for the future . |
| 7 | Basilican churches continued to be built for a long time but many variations of form developed , with one dominant theme : a dome , or domes over an open space below . |
| 8 | Well , people who stake their opposition to factory-farming on this kind of consideration should be prepared for a long , heated debate , with one set of ‘ experts ’ declaring that thus-and-so is true , while another declares that it is not . |
| 9 | As your child puts together the 50 chunky pieces , each new bit of the picture will encourage him to talk to you about what he sees — be prepared for a long conversation ! |
| 10 | They also may not be prepared for a long walk to a phone . |
| 11 | One of the big disadvantages of crewing a cutter is that much of our revenue work has to be done after a long hard day 's passage between ports when often one only feels like flopping down on one 's bunk . |
| 12 | However , since only the continued path from naming can be matched to a long word , the path from name is discontinued ( without storing the short word he on the word graph ) . |
| 13 | If there are several competing paths , only those paths that can be matched to long words are continued , and a short word will only be retrieved from the buffer if none of the possible paths can be matched to a long word . |
| 14 | However , composers very frequently use a free ordering of the note-material at such points : This is an excellent method of serial usage , and because it can produce a varied horizontal flow of notes in each part , a single version of a series can be used for a long piece ( Luigi Nono 's choral-orchestral work Il canto sospeso , for example , is written entirely with one series , never transposed and always in its ‘ O ’ form ) . |
| 15 | That the choleretic response to feeding is abolished by vagotomy suggests that this secretory event may possibly be mediated by a long vago-vagal reflex ( similar to the increased production of gastric acid secondary to gastric distension ) , or that it may be a true cephalic phase event . |
| 16 | Sean Murray of Philip Morris said that their considerable arts programme will not be affected for a long time , and that the legislation is designed to prohibit brand promotion , not corporate publicity . |
| 17 | ‘ The first to win it will be remembered for a long , long time . ’ |
| 18 | Their hard work , efficiency and friendliness helped to produce a day which will be remembered for a long time by all those who took part . |
| 19 | If you look at a bar code it will normally be accompanied by a long number ( usually eight or thirteen digits long ) . |
| 20 | I had decided that I had to face up to the fact that John might not come back or he might be gone for a long time and that when he did come back we might not love one another . |
| 21 | Did you say to her , I 'm going out to re I 'm going out and I may be gone for a long time . |
| 22 | It seems to be gone for a long time . |
| 23 | John Maddox , the editor of Nature , wrote in 1982 : ‘ The OED is uniquely a data base … , which will suggest to many that it should by now be stored on a long reel of magnetic tape , floppy disks , or some other means of data storage . |
| 24 | This is clearly not the case where some very frail old people are concerned but reciprocity can be viewed over a long time scale . |
| 25 | Those benefits may be continued for a long succession of generations upon deserving objects , let us strenuously support our own undertaking : and may our children , and our children 's children feel an ardour even greater than our own in the cause of humanity ; so that as long as the County of Bedford exists , its Infirmary may be one of the chief objects of care , and one of the principal sources of its honest pride . ’ |
| 26 | But I discard that idea , for the water is too shallow over the sand and once a fish is hooked the fishing would be finished for a long time while the rest of the shoal got over the scare . |
| 27 | We know that Eworth can be associated with a long series of signed pictures bearing his monogram HE . |
| 28 | The picture was not seen as ‘ a moment of time ’ but the wings were assumed to be spread for a long period ( Goldsmith , 1984 , pp.2–3 ) . |
| 29 | I twisted around and almost blinded myself by staring straight into the sun , but then , through the dizzying glare , I made out the long silhouette of a tall man who seemed , incongruously , to be dressed in a long , transparent dressing gown . |
| 30 | It has to be cooked for a long time because of its size , but it will still be pink in the middle and have a succulence to it . |