Example sentences of "be [verb] long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both are serving long sentences after being found guilty of illegally entering the country . |
| 2 | Opinion polls taken before the bishops ' caution show Herri Batasuna — some of whose candidates are serving long prison sentences for terrorism - winning up to five seats in Cortes , the Spanish parliament . |
| 3 | You 'll just have to have short length coats when you 're wearing longer skirts , you know . |
| 4 | AS THE Pope begins his visit to Indonesia , two young men from Gajah Mada University in Yogyakarta on Java are beginning long prison sentences for subversion . |
| 5 | If they are lax they are realised as short vowels , if tense as diphthongs ( this category including what I have been calling long vowels ) . |
| 6 | Whether patients who relapse should be treated long term with a fixed or titrable dose or six month courses for each episode of relapse remains to be elucidated in future studies . |
| 7 | All had now to be arranged long distance but it seemed to work remarkably well . |
| 8 | This contrasts with humic acids which are rich in carboxyls and are known to complex radio-nuclides to form colloidal suspensions , which can be moved long distances by groundwater . |
| 9 | And operators of star networks will be offered longer franchises than those who supply the older technology . |
| 10 | The way of working therefore should be to negotiate long term visitors with regions on the present ‘ bidding ’ system as this gave enough space to work through the Coordinators with the opportunity of a regional strategy for using the visitor . |
| 11 | Although it is normal to be served long grain rice at a Chinese restaurant , it is much easier to eat the shorter grains with chopsticks . |
| 12 | Acidic gases can be blown long distances from their sites of release before falling as acid rain . |
| 13 | Erm so erm th the cheapest er fuel at the moment is gas , you know , that 's , that 's why er a lot of the erm er er generators are now moving to towards gas er erm er generation er wh which is fine for as long as the gas exists but , you know , another , give it another ten fifteen years , and our North Sea gas will have gone you see so , so erm you have to ask well how much do you , weight do you put on market forces and how much in say , in the energy business , ought you to be thinking longer term ? |
| 14 | To compensate , the latter category are allowed longer slices of time when they are selected to use the processor . |
| 15 | Ports are to get longer piers to accommodate all the containers bringing in imports . |
| 16 | Tracer laid stitches across the sky : the bombers still in formation were firing long shots at him . |
| 17 | Students held secret meetings and there were rumours of plots to assassinate Mussolini , but these always failed , and It was said that those involved were given long prison sentences or suffered a worse fate . |
| 18 | She never saw her father again , but after Georg Wilhelm 's death a certain relaxation took place , her mother being permitted long visits to her court at Ahlden . |
| 19 | Both were serving long sentences at the time , Finucane for possessing firearms and ammunition and Clarke for the attempted murder of a member of the Ulster Defence Regiment ( a part-time regiment of the British Army ) . |
| 20 | The women were wearing long dresses . |
| 21 | Lady Thomson , Midge and Chris were wearing long dresses . |
| 22 | Then the chains on some passes were too short to pass over the wearers ' heads : they were getting longer chains in . |
| 23 | Many of the house officers were working long hours without proper medical supervision . |
| 24 | But they were working longer hours . |
| 25 | Baby elephants are sent long distances to be put under Daphne 's care , and her love and knowledge ensure their survival and eventual rehabilitation . |
| 26 | Then they are trucked long distances to toil on remote plantations where they are held prisoner and compelled to work at gunpoint . |
| 27 | There are different ways of doing this : one way is to treat long vowels and diphthongs as composed of two vowel phonemes . |
| 28 | Another way of doing this kind of analysis is to treat long vowels and diphthongs as composed of a vowel plus a consonant ; this may seem a less obvious way of proceeding , but it was for many years the choice of most American phonologists . |
| 29 | , A lack of qualified engineers is causing long delays to mount up in the programme of strengthening road bridges , which needs to be carried out ahead of the introduction of 40-tonne lorries , scheduled for 1998 . |
| 30 | ACTRESS and one-time junkie Drew Barrymore , 17 , is to play Long Island Lolita Amy Fisher , in a TV film . |