Example sentences of "to [be] a long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Green had already spent so long on his maps , carefully recording every field and alley-way , that Laurent could see it was going to be a long task , and also that the end result would be large and quite expensive . |
| 32 | Erm Oh dear this is going to be a long list of things I was supposed to do but did n't . |
| 33 | I think it 's going to be a long summer with a lot of killings . ’ |
| 34 | The Government has yet to appoint its three Committee members , and this is likely to be a long business , since confusion still reigns following the April elections . |
| 35 | But all in all , it seems likely to be a long time before we reach that ‘ Utopian world of RDS ’ for all listeners in cars , at home or on foot ! |
| 36 | It was to be a long time before any disciples appeared to revitalize the game , and even after Busby , Shankly , Clough and others the cry still goes up ( not always reasonably ) that football is too negative . |
| 37 | The idea was to move away from an elitist and centralist view of things , yet it was to be a long time before such changes were implemented in the Government 's media , and it might well be argued that they have not progressed very far to this day . |
| 38 | As his biographer has pointed out it was to be a long time ‘ before he had an equal in the study of archaeology on a scientific basis or as an illustrator of archaeological relics ’ ( Jessup 1975 , p. 109 ) . |
| 39 | It was to be a long time before I slotted this experience into others to make sense of it all . |
| 40 | And it 's going to be a long time before it 's going to be possible , so therefore we still have to use animals , I see no way round it . |
| 41 | " It 's going to be a long time before we get another chance , though , is n't it though ? " |
| 42 | They were described as mere preparations for an Iranian final offensive , though this much-heralded event was to be a long time coming . |
| 43 | Because peasants had to pay back the sums of money which the government advanced on their behalf at 6 per cent interest over forty-nine years , it was to be a long time before their freedom was complete . |
| 44 | Although … well , it does look as though it 's going to be a long time before they can leave hospital , ’ she added sorrowfully . |
| 45 | Oh it , it was n't there seemed to be a long time you know before they turned one out to make , because it was a very long process rebuilding an aircraft , es especially as the situation was at Walsall . |
| 46 | I think that it 's a very long term thing and until the attitudes of both men and women and boys and girls at schools who come up here change , and that 's going to be a long time |
| 47 | " When it was clear that identifying him was going to be a long job — if , indeed , he could ever be identified — the coroner issued a burial certificate . |
| 48 | It was then time for all other mechanical parts to be cleaned , checked for wear , remade where needed and reassembled , which turned out to be a long job as some parts like the track rod ends , king pins and bushes had to be made anew . |
| 49 | There needs to be a long term education of cyclists and I sincerely apologise to those walkers who have had any bad experiences . |
| 50 | The restoration of this machine is likely to be a long term task , but one which is well within the capabilities of the centre 's restoration team . |
| 51 | And it was going to be a long term strategy . |
| 52 | ( a ) Whatever the role of individual mosaicists or groups of mosaicists was in the second century , there appears to be a long term trend in the popularity of certain designs over which control by these mosaicists was negligible . |
| 53 | So in , rational grounds y y you would be arguing that , that if we 're going to set this policy up we 're going to have to accept that i it 's going , it is going to be a long term policy . |
| 54 | So if , if one is accepting that , that strategy you would expect there to be statements along the lines of er ye yes this is going to be a long term process , etcetera . |
| 55 | There used to be a long table and the head used to sit at the end of this table and so to see that you did n't leave off working she used to get the table cloth and always be pulling this table straight . |