Example sentences of "[be] long [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A cork does n't have to be long to be good . |
| 2 | Pretty li'l thing she was , but delicate ; you could see she wouldn ’ be long for this world — and they started that pottery thing … ’ |
| 3 | The days will be long between now and March 31 when at last the organisation , a charity it is keen to stress , names its Brain of the Year . |
| 4 | theories are interdisciplinary , and the specific quality of a painting or a sculpture may not be spotlighted by the theoretician , whose writing is likely to be long on interpretation but short on description . |
| 5 | Such an intellectual process is likely to be of great value in business organisations which have a tendency to be long on action , but short on thought ! |
| 6 | In the bat , the five fingers have been programmed to be long in order to support the web for flying . |
| 7 | Mr Mayor er I do n't want to be long in this debate because I 'm sure we 've probably all made up our minds exactly what we 're going to vote on because long evenings it stretches and turns |
| 8 | It is hypothesised that words processed at deeper levels will be better recognised than those processed to only a shallow level and that reaction times will be longer at deeper levels of processing . |
| 9 | That 's not at all bad , but expect time to first print to be longer for highly graphical subjects . |
| 10 | The riders ' warm-up will be longer by far than the eight kilometre course itself , and then comes an anxious wait . |
| 11 | Even if the stability of the product is such that is has adequate shelf-life in the most severe market , it is likely that its shelf-life will be longer in markets having a less severe climate than in areas with more severe climates . |
| 12 | The average interval between testing and diagnosis and death may be longer in their case than in other groups . |