Example sentences of "[be] a long way [prep] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 're a long way off retiring yet , Marlene . |
| 2 | Such interviews provide an index of ‘ psychological malaise ’ but they are a long way from producing the more concrete statistics provided by medical consultation , prescription levels and mortality rates . |
| 3 | We are a long way from liberating the woman from the artificial status of woman artist , which only serves to segregate her further and prevents her working as an individual professional artist , regardless of her political stance — do we call a man a male artist ? |
| 4 | The new appointments demonstrate a commitment by the Saatchi brothers to restore the company 's fortunes and suggest they are a long way from turning their backs on the business they built . |
| 5 | That the social sciences are a long way from devising scales which even approximate to the temperature scale is not to be wondered at . |
| 6 | The only other sense man has had any success in recording and reproducing on its own is sight , although moving pictures and videos are a long way from fooling the human eye in quite the way sound can fool the ear . |
| 7 | Add to this cost the growth in government expenditure , and we are a long way in explaining why the real value of the tax threshold , or the level of income at which tax begins to be paid , has fallen during the post-war period . |
| 8 | Sometimes the image they create may be a long way from expressing their real character but the search is on — through fashions , chats with friends , reactions from boyfriends — to find a style that suits their temperament and physical type . |
| 9 | We appear to be a long way from finding effective means of primary prevention of attempted suicide . |
| 10 | They may be a long way from performing in the Greatest Show on Earth , but getting there has certainly got them in a spin . |
| 11 | Far from suggesting that the two sides were moving towards a new spirit of co-operation , the diplomats said they were a long way from calling for a ceasefire . |
| 12 | So the main reason , that 's just sorry it 's a long way of getting to it sir but , the main change in circumstance that the county is putting forward since nineteen eighty compared with today is that agricultural policy means that more farmland is being diversified and they feel the need at county level to have a sweep-up policy to control that process . |
| 13 | But this is a long way from arguing that they were such political pariahs that the deposition of Edward V could seem preferable to a regime dominated by them . |
| 14 | But this is a long way from arguing that they were such political pariahs that the deposition of Edward V could seem preferable to a regime dominated by them . |
| 15 | She was a long way from believing him . |