Example sentences of "be [prep] long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The trauma underlying religion , which has been for long periods of time forgotten , remaining latent in the unconscious , was also a mixture of sexuality and aggression . |
| 2 | She ai n't been for long while has she ? |
| 3 | As the Committee emphasised , however , the acoustic problems are of long standing and can not be attributed to television . |
| 4 | These variations in health and educational attainment are of long standing and appear to have defied attempts made under the Welfare State to obtain greater equality in access to services . |
| 5 | Caution is therefore needed when interpreting the results of these investigations in coeliac disease patients who are in long term treatment . |
| 6 | Some of these may be of long standing , an example being improving the standard of fire precautions in places of public resort . |
| 7 | The Commission refused to characterise the demilitarisation as an international servitude , but held that a territorial arrangement made in the general European public interest and intended to be of long duration , would have this objective effect . |
| 8 | The changes in Eastern Europe were recognised in last year 's survey to be of long term importance only . |
| 9 | Most of the ladies would be in long dresses , and men in dinner jackets . |
| 10 | That 's the end of the shipping forecast but just to remind you that Radio Four long wave in Northern Scotland , Orkney and Shetland is off the air as the bulkhead transmitter has been affected by the bad weather but as soon as it 's repaired we will repeat the shipping forecast for the areas affected that 'll be on long wave only and F M will continue with scheduled programmes . |
| 11 | Erm t th certainly it makes me really angry that people have to struggle for the basics and I you know I I just do n't see how people who are on long term benefits , erm state benefits , can survive without getting into serious debt . |
| 12 | Immediately after the war , the Department of Antiquities in Baghdad compiled a four-volume list of missing objects ; many of these had been on long term loan from the Baghdad Museum to regional museums in Iraq . |
| 13 | You now have to get , in er er , because there was a sort of erm gradation from being off ill , which was n't familiar , to being off long term sick which you ca n't have any experience of to erm early retirement on health grounds and you just ca n't have any experience of that either erm to being retired and it 's , i i it 's , it 's quite interesting |
| 14 | Both families were of long standing in Norfolk . |
| 15 | Soon , however , we were into long stretches of powder and spring snow where Andrew videoed us in action . |
| 16 | tell me what arrangements have you got your with your employer if you were on long term sickness ? |
| 17 | It 's a problem that shows no sign of disappearing — while we were at Long Lartin there was another skirmish which left two prisoners seriosuly injured . |
| 18 | One of them had only been at Long Lartin for three weeks … |
| 19 | If the subject is a " classical " one — one that changes little and is of long standing — you may find old editions of early textbooks on the library shelves but , if the subject is a developing one , you have n't a hope of borrowing the right texts , because they are all out on loan : give up the idea . |
| 20 | There is unfortunately a theory around which is of long standing to that effect . |
| 21 | The relationship is of long duration and is asymmetrical . |
| 22 | Well once I 've got you know once I 've got the shape of the story in my mind I can it down in an hour or so every time you know it 's in long hand , then it takes me hours to type it but er you know the actual once I 've got the idea I I find it necessary to get it all down you know in long hand as quickly as possible . |
| 23 | My pick-up point is on Long Lane , opposite Blyne Street . ’ |
| 24 | You will require a 4+ with each shot as the target is at long range . |
| 25 | There were a few couples whose friendship was of long standing and who were always seen about together . |
| 26 | The most likely explanation is that the illness which took his life within ten days of his baptism in Rome on 10 April 689 was of long standing and that Caedwalla abdicated in the knowledge that his health was failing . |
| 27 | From the context it is clear that the secret , whatever it was , was of long standing . ’ |
| 28 | Patients included in the present study had diarrhoea that in some cases was of long duration . |
| 29 | In the lobby , I braved the stares of the milling guests , for I was in long skirts again and long skirts on a Western woman at ten in the morning were a bit peculiar , even in that centre for strangers in a strange land . |
| 30 | He was in Long Lartin prison when he wrote to me , but by the time that I was able to make contact with him , he had been transferred to Winson Green prison . |