Example sentences of "[vb mod] be [vb pp] for [art] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , people who stake their opposition to factory-farming on this kind of consideration should be prepared for a long , heated debate , with one set of ‘ experts ’ declaring that thus-and-so is true , while another declares that it is not . |
| 2 | I had decided that I had to face up to the fact that John might not come back or he might be gone for a long time and that when he did come back we might not love one another . |
| 3 | Does my hon. Friend agree that when such councils involve constitutional amendments to the treaty as well as , as always , substantial business for the Heads of Government to transact , some new formula should be produced whereby meetings could be scheduled for a longer period ? |
| 4 | There was nothing against my packing a bag and loading the wheelbarrow on the Land Rover so that it could be used for the longer , more difficult sections . |
| 5 | Did you say to her , I 'm going out to re I 'm going out and I may be gone for a long time . |
| 6 | Those benefits may be continued for a long succession of generations upon deserving objects , let us strenuously support our own undertaking : and may our children , and our children 's children feel an ardour even greater than our own in the cause of humanity ; so that as long as the County of Bedford exists , its Infirmary may be one of the chief objects of care , and one of the principal sources of its honest pride . ’ |
| 7 | Sometimes truth may be suppressed for a long time but while it is imprisoned it gathers to itself more and more power so that on the day that it is finally released it explodes , blowing everything asunder . |
| 8 | But I discard that idea , for the water is too shallow over the sand and once a fish is hooked the fishing would be finished for a long time while the rest of the shoal got over the scare . |
| 9 | Luke , she knew , would be occupied for a long time yet , drinking coffee with the other women , talking over the day , helping to cement working relationships for the future . |
| 10 | The cost need not be very high and you will have the satisfaction of knowing that the finished result will be kept for a long time , if not forever , by the recipient . |
| 11 | Her husband Alex , 45 , said : ‘ Hopefully , when he is dealt with at a magistrates court later for driving with excess alcohol he will be banned for a long time . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Hopefully , when he is dealt with at a magistrates court later for driving with excess alcohol he will be banned for a long time . ’ |
| 13 | Historians will be occupied for a long time to come in determining the exact balance and interaction of forces — including , to mention only the more obvious , the economic disaster of the Second World War , the rise of America , and the development of nationalism — which contributed to Britain 's imperial demise . |
| 14 | The hon. Gentleman knows that I believe that the Iraqi people will be safeguarded for the long term and enable the international community to give long-term development aid to that country only when Saddam Hussein is no longer at the helm in Baghdad . |
| 15 | ‘ The first to win it will be remembered for a long , long time . ’ |
| 16 | Their hard work , efficiency and friendliness helped to produce a day which will be remembered for a long time by all those who took part . |
| 17 | These can be kept for a long time and are likely to breed . |
| 18 | However , composers very frequently use a free ordering of the note-material at such points : This is an excellent method of serial usage , and because it can produce a varied horizontal flow of notes in each part , a single version of a series can be used for a long piece ( Luigi Nono 's choral-orchestral work Il canto sospeso , for example , is written entirely with one series , never transposed and always in its ‘ O ’ form ) . |