Example sentences of "is a long [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is a long distance from the rural areas of Wyre and there would be substantial costs in time and money for magistrates , witnesses and police making the journey to Fleetwood . |
| 2 | Towards the end too , there is a long exhortation of the need to keep the sea , as the means of protecting England . |
| 3 | ‘ It is a long way to the Greshorns , ’ Guillamon said . |
| 4 | But it is a long way from the recognition of such local features to the interpretation of whole scenes . |
| 5 | This tool is a long way from the cheapest heat guns . |
| 6 | One does n't want to wallow in the nostalgia trap so temptingly set by TV Heaven and its bebow-tied host Frank Muir ( though they show Honor Blackman in her Avengers leather kit , it 's hard to resist ) , but Old Boy Network is a long way from The Likely Lads . |
| 7 | That is a long way from the Chancellor 's unsubstantiated allegation yesterday that tabloid newspapers ‘ encourage people to tell unsubstantiated allegations ’ . |
| 8 | It is a long way from the post-punk Big Black noise of old that first did the rounds of Ireland , which they confirm themselves the following day when , nursing Alps-sized hangovers , the threesome spill out stories of their past as we head through New York to the photo-shoot in the Bronx . |
| 9 | This is a long way from the central idea of total quality management — that the patient or customer is king . |
| 10 | It is a long way from the dark pine forests and the frozen rivers of northern Europe to the sun-baked sands of Arabia . |
| 11 | When one grows up in the north-east , one is aware that the region is a long way from the English seat of power in London . |
| 12 | It is a long way from the " careership " proposals of the CBI and a long way , too , from the systematic manner in which those parties argue who would wish to see TECs as the regulators of training and as the godfather of the careers service . |
| 13 | Although Devon is a long way from the most seriously affected areas of enclosure , it does provide well-documented evidence of such variations . |
| 14 | But all this is a long way from the heady days of the ‘ special relationship ’ of Thatcher and Reagan and even Major and Bush . |
| 15 | I know this is a long way after the event , but were you on Beinn Sgulaird , Argyll , on June 21 as part of the Boots Across Scotland ( BAS ) Fundraising Day ? |
| 16 | Certainly the word for spirit is female in Hebrew , and there is a long tradition of the divine wisdom being conceived to be feminine . |
| 17 | It is a long tradition within the firm to produce handmade farewell cards and there have been some beauties — apt and humorous — which have left the donors proud of their efforts and the recipients amused and flattered . |
| 18 | As Miller argues , there is a long tradition among the protestants of Ulster of viewing the British state ambiguously . |
| 19 | There is a long history of the use of conciliation in employment relations , justified because one objective is to secure the continuance of the relationship between the parties in dispute . |
| 20 | There is a long history in the use of case management within rehabilitation services in North America and these have usually been based on psychosocial models in psychiatric rehabilitation . |
| 21 | The intuition behind this result is that , when there is a long time to the delivery date , there is still much time for new information to affect the delivery price , and therefore any single piece of information is relatively unimportant . |
| 22 | The method can work if there is a long time for the change-over , if both channels can be kept open and if it does not matter that the two systems are being used haphazardly . |
| 23 | Twenty years is a long time in the development of sexual experience . |
| 24 | Ten years is a long time in the world of books , but I do remember there was not nearly such a fuss over the original 1983 list : a rather uncomfortable party in some medical establishment , a few diary paragraphs and that was it . |
| 25 | EIGHTEEN years is a long time in the life of a motor car . |
| 26 | There is a long silence at the other end of the phone . |
| 27 | Also the ghost stories of certain houses came in for comment and there is a long note on the haunting of Calgarth Hall . |
| 28 | Indeed , agricultural equipment data should have unusually favourable characteristics that avoid some of the problems that some manufacturing investment data exhibit — most notably the conceptual and estimation problems that occur when there is a long lag between the placement of a new order and its subsequent delivery sometime in the future . |
| 29 | It is a long flight from the early days when pilots taking off from Cricklewood in North London looked out of the cockpit and saw the number sixteen bus overtaking them . |
| 30 | Fifty years A lease for a term of more than fifty years is a long lease for the purposes of income and corporation taxes . |