Example sentences of "are a long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | they are a long arrow |
| 2 | The new appointments demonstrate a commitment by the Saatchi brothers to restore the company 's fortunes and suggest they are a long way from turning their backs on the business they built . |
| 3 | ‘ You are a long way from Achnacarry , Piper ! |
| 4 | Indeed in many cases they are a long way away from having done so . |
| 5 | At the same time , many of the disadvantaged areas , such as parts of the Mediterranean , Scotland and western Ireland , are a long way from urban and industrial centres . |
| 6 | The only other sense man has had any success in recording and reproducing on its own is sight , although moving pictures and videos are a long way from fooling the human eye in quite the way sound can fool the ear . |
| 7 | Such interviews provide an index of ‘ psychological malaise ’ but they are a long way from producing the more concrete statistics provided by medical consultation , prescription levels and mortality rates . |
| 8 | Anne was right in saying that ‘ you tend to lose the origin of it ’ ; the origins are a long way from what remains , but it does not really matter . |
| 9 | For the guerrillas of Guatemala 's URNG , peace and a return to party politics are a long way off . |
| 10 | We are a long way from liberating the woman from the artificial status of woman artist , which only serves to segregate her further and prevents her working as an individual professional artist , regardless of her political stance — do we call a man a male artist ? |
| 11 | We are a long way from Egypt , but in many ways the secular world is as merciless as Islam . |
| 12 | If you keep him quiet you are a long way down the road to achieving some success at Leeds . |
| 13 | We are a long way from the time where a computer could pass a reasonable judgement on the quality of an electronic document . |
| 14 | Products are a long way down the line . |
| 15 | We are a long way removed from the 1929 Larousse dictionary 's definition of the term : ‘ act or way of cultivating the soil or certain plants ’ , with the added gloss : ‘ this word is sometimes used , like the German word Kultur , to mean civilisation , though with particular reference to the Germanic peoples ’ ! |
| 16 | The bulk of this chapter has been taken up with a discussion of the relationship between the undergraduate curriculum and just two of Lawton 's eight ‘ cultural sub-systems ’ — the social and the economic although the latter has led us into areas which are a long way from the purely economic , and seems to yield a useful typology of undergraduate courses . |
| 17 | Add to this cost the growth in government expenditure , and we are a long way in explaining why the real value of the tax threshold , or the level of income at which tax begins to be paid , has fallen during the post-war period . |
| 18 | And I know that they 're using cultures and things but I still think that we are a long way from not using animals . |
| 19 | They find their thinking and decision-making dominated by market and resource considerations which in their scale and complexity are a long way indeed from the traditional concept of primary headship ( Audit Commission 1991 ) . |
| 20 | Glasgow 's bars are a long way from London café society , and what fascinates Scottish painter Hugh Byars is the humanity behind the faces . |
| 21 | ‘ And the Buskett Gardens are a long way from the back streets of Valletta . ’ |
| 22 | Such ideas are a long way from the truth ; Paul was a Christian , just like us . |
| 23 | However , if the idea of an extended OPAC whereby the user can access other online databases via the online catalogue is to be realized , it would appear that we are a long way away from presenting an acceptable interface for the user . |
| 24 | The stations are a long way apart . |
| 25 | Apparently , the institute is considering building a pilot plant , but little is known about its proposals , and clearly we are a long way from that becoming a viable alternative to present-day technology . |
| 26 | That the social sciences are a long way from devising scales which even approximate to the temperature scale is not to be wondered at . |
| 27 | We are a long way from those factory-owners of the 1830s , living in constant fear of something like slave insurrections ( see The Age of Revolution , epigraph to chapter 11 ) . |
| 28 | People often think that the problems of the Third World are a long way away . |
| 29 | Rotary committee chairman Tony Dennett said : ‘ The lunch is an ideal opportunity for us to provide hospitality to these students who are a long way from home . ’ |
| 30 | HOPES that the Highlands and Islands could be in line for a huge European Community aid package are a long way from being fulfilled , according to the Highland Regional Council official masterminding the area 's campaign for so-called Objective One economic status . |