Example sentences of "long [subord] [pron] [vb mod] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the middle of the document , he says that if the MacSharry proposals were accepted — he says that they would be — they would not last very long because they would be too expensive . |
| 2 | So many people visit the countryside and pick wild flowers because they find them pretty , only to have those flowers wilt and die long before they can be arranged in a vase . |
| 3 | And and also I think now now that that 's happened , I do n't think it 'll be long before there 'll be another . |
| 4 | Moreover , the prima facie evidence for [ h ] -dropping continues well into EModE — long after there can be any suspicion of direct Anglo-Norman scribal interference . |
| 5 | This means that at any frequency , sound waves in water are nearly five times as long as they would be in air , and so provide poorer resolution . |
| 6 | Even where a trustee has misappropriated trust property the fund may still preserve its identity , and , so long as it can be identified , the rights of the beneficiaries will attach to the fund into whatever form it may have been converted by him . |
| 7 | Partly because , in spite of his professed indifference to the outside world , it nevertheless rankled with Franco that his regime was excluded from all the most important international circles , and he knew that it would continue to be blackballed for as long as it could be accused of denying the Spanish people free choice . |
| 8 | In March 1265 , when he renewed his oath of fealty to the king ( then in effect a captive in Montfort 's power ) he made clear ‘ before the people ’ that his loyalty was highly conditional : ‘ For as long as you will be a good lord and king to us , ’ he told Henry III , ‘ we will be faithful and devoted to you . ’ |
| 9 | No-one else in our aircraft appeared to be the least bit concerned , but my relief as we finally drew near the coast of England again and then began our descent to the safety of solid earth was so great that I made a little promise to myself that I would never again set foot in an aeroplane , so long as I could be permitted to survive this one trip . |
| 10 | Mr Gates would be happy to get his financial information from the quarterly report to shareholders — so long as he can be confident that the news will be as consistently good as it has been during Mr Shirley 's seven years in charge . |