Example sentences of "was [art] long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What he did not expect was the long pause , and then the urgency of Phil Jordan 's voice . |
| 2 | And thirdly there was the long problem of the changeover from the NCTA honours degree equivalent to a system in which there were honours and unclassified degrees . |
| 3 | It was the long way round , but she did it every day . |
| 4 | Fortunately the bridge was empty as was the long road of sycamores to the church in its dark evergreens . |
| 5 | They felt the probable cause was the long period of high blood pressure she had experienced before and after the birth of her child . |
| 6 | To the right was the long pool , still , intensely black , its surface like a mirror . |
| 7 | But in his lordship 's day , that room was regularly required , as was the long table that occupied it , to seat thirty or more guests for dinner ; in fact , the banqueting hall is so spacious that when necessity demanded it , further tables were added to the existing one to enable almost fifty to be seated . |
| 8 | The end of year deadline for eradication of asbestos-contaminated rolling stock , agreed many years ago between BR and the unions , was quietly and mutually forgotten when it was realised it was a long way from being achieved unless services were decimated . |
| 9 | The principle indicated in those cases was a long way from the circumstances of the present case and was far from warranting the conclusion that by making a photocopy of a document which in the hands of the maker of the photocopy was not privileged , and then sending the photocopy to a solicitor for the purposes of obtaining advice , privilege was thereby cast on the copy sent to the soicitor . |
| 10 | Even though one was a long way from primitive promiscuity , binding individual marriage had not yet appeared . |
| 11 | One day when he was old this would be a nutcracker face but that was a long way off . |
| 12 | Singapore , however , had one military drawback : it was a long way from the Arabian Peninsula and the Persian Gulf . |
| 13 | Along the main road , though lit , it was a long way ; across the seemingly vast open field , pitch dark , might lie rape , and murder , or freezing to death . |
| 14 | But the vision was a long way off from Britain , for which the first two years of the Fifties were a continuation of wartime in civilian clothes . |
| 15 | It was a long way home via Shearbridge Road . |
| 16 | Down the stairs , followed by the cat , was a long way , and the mirror on the landing showed up in full light the pouches beneath her eyes . |
| 17 | Fiji 's scintillating performance was a long way from their fumbling 15-aside showing in France during the World Cup and one of their newcomers , Mesake Rasari , ensured the player of the tournament award by scoring three tries against New Zealand . |
| 18 | It was a long way down . ’ |
| 19 | With figures like these the WEA , here as elsewhere , was a long way from being the body of ‘ middle-class ’ students pursuing ‘ soft options ’ which its critics liked to allege . |
| 20 | It was a long way down . |
| 21 | At that time , September was a long way away , in fact I was n't really thinking beyond the date that my baby was due , the 6th of April . |
| 22 | After a spell at the rehabilitation centre , Guy 's parents realized it was a mistake , and tried to have him transferred to a specialist stroke rehabilitation centre in London , even though this was a long way from home . |
| 23 | This morning she had started out late for Pack Meeting , so instead of going by the woodland path , which was a long way round , she 'd taken the direct route by road and arrived in time . |
| 24 | He was a long way from being an alcoholic , but he was vulnerable to heavy social drinking and was a sucker for the old Scottish adage ‘ One For The Road ’ . |
| 25 | Practice was a long way from the standard understanding of the concept of budgets based on explicit workloads and levels of activity . |
| 26 | It was a long way from Brewer Street . |
| 27 | ‘ It was a long way carrying the baby . ‘ |
| 28 | I had reached the 11th but was a long way off the green . |
| 29 | There was a narrow , poky cupboard and a jug and basin from early times but possibly necessary still today since the bathroom was a long way away . |
| 30 | It was a long way to Cornwall . |