Example sentences of "a long [noun] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah , well there a long journey are n't they ? |
| 2 | I could see now , in the better light , that a long mirror was on the wall directly over the bed . |
| 3 | A long spade is needed for work on the deeper holes . |
| 4 | It is clear that such a strategy would produce an incorrect parsing when a short word followed by a long word is homophonous with a long word followed by a short word . |
| 5 | The correct word-path is excluded from many mid and mixed utterances because an alternative parsing into a long word is preferred . |
| 6 | That 's a long word is n't it ? |
| 7 | A long marriage is like the bath foam covering the water — until , in the end , it 's all foam and no water . |
| 8 | A NEW book marking the silver jubilee of a long school is to be launched in the city next week . |
| 9 | At the back of this second tower a long range was added in the late 16th century , possibly to contain a spacious great hall , but little trace of this remains today . |
| 10 | It 's a long address is n't it ? |
| 11 | A long delay is required at the beginning of deceleration so that the rotor can move ahead of the appropriate equilibrium position and produce negative torque . |
| 12 | You know , because of cut-backs , and that 's probably the reason why , it 's a hell of a long delay is n't it , three or four months or so . |
| 13 | Now you 've been doing this for 25 years , that 's quite a long stint is n't it ? |
| 14 | God it 's only quarter past two , it has been a long day in n it ? |
| 15 | A long day was in store . |
| 16 | The rather fat body , with distinct segmentation , and a long tail-spine are characteristic ; the head region carries appendages of grasping aspect . |
| 17 | Mm it 's a long way in n it ? |
| 18 | It is a long way in n it ? |
| 19 | Oh a long way is it ? |
| 20 | Sustaining men through a long sentence is much more than providing work or classes , important though they are . |
| 21 | Climb the steep rib , a long reach being a distinct advantage , until a traverse leads right back into the corner crack . |
| 22 | Such an interpretation would create procedural difficulties , particularly if , for example , a long adjournment were allowed of an application for renewal under the powers given by subs . |
| 23 | But a long story was an indulgence . |
| 24 | That 's a long screw in n it ? |
| 25 | That 's a long while is n't it ? |
| 26 | It is a long while is n't it ? |
| 27 | One of the happiest parties I have been to for a long while was the one at Claridge 's given by Mr and Mrs John Newman , to celebrate the marriage of their daughter Miss Henrietta Newman to the Earl of Caledon , son of the late Earl of Caledon and the late Mrs Denis Alexander . |
| 28 | If a long hall was to be vaulted by a cross or groined vault the room would be divided by piers into square bays each of which would be covered by a cross vault . |
| 29 | Well very rarely it was I , actually I 'd say I was n't really furnished what they used to call the sofa down the one side and there was chairs around there was no three piece suite or anything like that , but er if it was a wet Sunday afternoon we 'd play draughts or games like that , as we grew older we used to play , play whist , so it was just a room for oh and we had a gramophone , I , I 've actually got the old gramophone case I have n't got the working part I 've got the case upstairs now , it was a , as long as I , we er , I bought it and the pals used to club around and buy a record each week there was er Parlaphone , they used to have a little shop on the corner of Street and Street , and we had it from there , and we used to buy a little , a small record perhaps once a week , perhaps once a month , but er I remember the first record we 'd , we 'd bought as a long play was No No Nanette and er a twelve inch record . |
| 30 | If F L is the price of the index future in which a long position is taken , while F s is the price of the index future in which a short position is adopted , the intercommodity spread basis is F L - F s = ( S L - D L ) ( 1 + r L ) - ( S s - D s ) ( 1 + r S ) . |