Example sentences of "be [verb] [prep] a long " in BNC.
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| 31 | The concepts of each civilization , like the soil of its homeland , have been cultivated by a long tradition of directed effort , but in the last resort are not invented but given . |
| 32 | It has been bought on a long lease which also gives BP , which uses the offices , a five-year lease-back arrangement . |
| 33 | As you know , the two of them have become good friends , and are going on a long holiday together . |
| 34 | They must have been riding for a long time , but there was no sign of a large town , only a solitary light shining ahead . |
| 35 | As the door closed , Zen let out a breath he realized he had been holding for a long time . |
| 36 | Piano keys made with synthetic resins or polymer fibres eventually become slippery with sweat from the pianist 's fingers after been played for a long time . |
| 37 | They are borne on a long , stout , fleshy leaf-stalk . |
| 38 | The decision was reported to have been reached after a long and tense debate in which a more moderate current , headed by the Imam Abdelkader al-Hachani , a mining engineer in his early thirties , argued in favour of participation as a necessary step towards the creation of an Islamic state . |
| 39 | Again a scientist stands at the point which has at present been reached within a long tradition of enquiry . |
| 40 | ‘ These events are occurring now because human rights have been violated for a long time , ’ he said . |
| 41 | It was in that frame of mind that I moved into the Olympic year indoor season , saying , as I had been doing for a long time , ‘ In ‘ 88 , I 'll graduate ! ’ |
| 42 | Many of these children had been attending for a long time , so they already knew many things , specially the important things like how to stand in line and what to do when your pen-nib broke . |
| 43 | It 's one of the delightful , I 've been recruiting for a long time and it 's it 's one of those erm delightful things to be able to say to people on the phone when they tell me they 're fifty or fifty four to say that 's not a problem . |
| 44 | Can I just draw people 's attention to the very last point which was made in case any one sending large sums of cash through the post office , erm , it , it 's been running for a long time |
| 45 | Although many kinds of trace fossil are known from a long geological time span , some are confined to the Cambrian and could record extinct body plans , as well as details of early metazoan activities such as locomotion and feeding . |
| 46 | It had been known for a long time that histamine was responsible for producing many allergies and the first antihistamine drug was produced in France in 1937 . |
| 47 | Other diuretics have been known for a long time , especially arsenical compounds of mercury . |
| 48 | The toxic nature of some animals has been known for a long time and man has utilised their venoms and poisons for various purposes . |
| 49 | The effect of early experience on the mating preferences of birds and mammals has been known for a long time . |
| 50 | It has been known for a long time , and has led to the more modern practice called ‘ foliar feeding ’ , in which the purpose is not so much to correct deficiencies , but to encourage a boost in performance , yield and so on by spraying major element solutions on to the leaves in the same way . |
| 51 | It has been known for a long time that , partly due to their immense size , elephants can hear much lower sounds than we can . |
| 52 | As I 've mentioned already in the context of metaphors of memory , the phenomenon of ‘ animal electricity ’ and its relation to neural activity had been known for a long time — at least since Galvani 's demonstration in Bologna in the 1790s that electrical pulses caused a frog 's legs to twitch . |
| 53 | These are called reaves and , while they have been known for a long time , their age , extent and probable purpose have only recently been recognised . |
| 54 | The value of printing a linear document from a database has been appreciated for a long time . |
| 55 | Rob and family are coming for a long weekend , so we sha n't have our usual Christmas Day picnic this year , but we 'd much rather have their company . |
| 56 | ‘ People see Romania and Albania in the media all the time now but Poland has been suffering for a long time and people are still very much in need of our help , ’ she said . |
| 57 | The tireless charity worker , who had been suffering from a long illness , had overcome his own difficulties to talk of his hopes and plans for others . |
| 58 | Yet even though in my part Welsh has not been spoken for a long time , and indeed the natives have even forgotten the Welsh pronunciation of our Celtic place-names , it would not cross my neighbours ' minds that just living there makes me Welsh . |
| 59 | CHC had been saying for a long time , and it seemed to be falling on deaf ears that a date should be set for the closure of Friern and that money should not be spent on the hospital but on services in the community . |
| 60 | It shows what we 've been saying for a long time , how fragile the markets in this recycling are , and I still stick to what I 've thought all along , that marketing comes first and making the product comes second . |