Example sentences of "[vb -s] [be] a long [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There has been a long tradition of professional marketing activities by a wide spectrum of non-profit making organisations including political parties , the Health Education Council with its anti-smoking campaign , the Right to Read programme , Oxfam , Christian Aid and the Salvation Army . |
| 2 | Seagram , last year 's winner , has been a long way behind that excellence this season , as has Bonanza Boy , the 1991 favourite , whose desertion by Peter Scudamore was clearly influenced by the drying conditions . |
| 3 | There has been a long resistance to accepting that , in spite of the logical stringency with which laws in science are formulated , interrelated and tested , their origin has never ceased to be the same . |
| 4 | Most of this is in the northwest where there has been a long history of land-use , involving both degradation and successful reclamation . |
| 5 | This has been a long chapter on the work of the Spirit in the individual Christian . |
| 6 | Mr Foster said : ‘ There has been a long period of uncertainty which always causes problems . |
| 7 | Well what this has involved me in has been a long study of a single school . |
| 8 | Well what this has involved me in has been a long study of a single school . |
| 9 | It 's been a long day of trundling past an infinity of fir trees , and photographer Ridgers has hardly survived it . |
| 10 | ‘ But it 's been a long day for Sam , so if you do n't mind I 'll send him home . |
| 11 | Well that 's no surprise ; but it 's been a long time in coming . |
| 12 | It 's been a long time in the pipeline … |