Example sentences of "[art] long [noun sg] [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That may still be prudent if your fish are in the top-quality bracket , but otherwise it may pay in the long run to be looking at 12″ Koi upwards . |
| 2 | It is usual for the extra length in the long format to be used to extend the precision of the fraction , while the range of exponents is the same in all formats . |
| 3 | Despite the myths which surround the Act , it turned out in the long term to be quite efficient and reasonably humane , but the threat of transition sparked off another series of troubles in Sussex , the last concerted fling of desperation . |
| 4 | Other conundra m–y appear rather less cosmically' relevant ; they may seem to be of little importance yet , like Mercury 's orbit , may prove in the long term to be extremely important . |
| 5 | Avoiding everybody in the staffroom is likely in the long term to be a bad strategy because its result is isolation . |
| 6 | The Spanish government may , of course , be hoping in the long term to be able to buy at least part of this collection at favourable rates ; otherwise it must simply be gambling on the Thyssen collection being a sufficiently spectacular and alluring feather in the cultural cap of the capital over the next ten years to make its considerable investment worthwhile . |
| 7 | In fact , this is probably , the most completely original church from the sixteenth-century in Milan and has a long history of being attended by the rich and powerful . |
| 8 | ‘ The British have a long history of being inventive and in this current climate we are being inundated with new ideas , ’ says Richard Paine , marketing director of Inventalink , one of Britain 's biggest agencies which sells the ideas to commercial companies . |
| 9 | The morning was growing , lengthening into a day , a long day to be filled with acts of kindness . |
| 10 | Most clubs , you have to go through a long rigmarole of being proposed and seconded and vouched for by other members and having your background scrutinised , and weeks and months go by before you 're elected . |
| 11 | Since very small , light animals can fall a long way without being hurt , it 's quite likely that it survived in the forest world under the tree and had the second most interesting experience any tree frog has ever had . |
| 12 | Nomes can fall quite a long way without being hurt , and in any case a bacon , lettuce and tomato sandwich broke his fall . |
| 13 | The end of year deadline for eradication of asbestos-contaminated rolling stock , agreed many years ago between BR and the unions , was quietly and mutually forgotten when it was realised it was a long way from being achieved unless services were decimated . |
| 14 | With figures like these the WEA , here as elsewhere , was a long way from being the body of ‘ middle-class ’ students pursuing ‘ soft options ’ which its critics liked to allege . |
| 15 | He was a long way from being an alcoholic , but he was vulnerable to heavy social drinking and was a sucker for the old Scottish adage ‘ One For The Road ’ . |
| 16 | The door , a long way from being square , was at the left of the shop window and on entering you had the impression of walking downhill . |
| 17 | While such machines are still a long way from being able to beat the American champion ( there are about 700 Masters in the US ) , it is clear that the period from 1977 to the present has seen a degree and pace of progress in machine chess that is very different in kind from what went on between 1957 and 1976 . |
| 18 | Even so , Basque autonomy was still a long way from being achieved when , during 1933 , the left 's grip on power started to loosen . |
| 19 | At the same time , I 'm a long way from being young enough to imagine , as you do , that marriage is the answer to all life 's little problems . |
| 20 | Ed Douglas looks at the continuing controversy surrounding plans to bolt parts of Land 's End and suggests that though the idea may be dead , it 's a long way from being buried |
| 21 | Yet , despite its prominence in headhunting in the USA and its global dominance as the highest-earning executive search firm in the world , Korn/Ferry is still a long way from being number one in fee income in Britain . |
| 22 | It was soon evident that the comfort theme from last year 's trade fair was a long way from being played out . |
| 23 | Apart from cases such as those we have been discussing , where the industries are nearly perfectly contestable , there are other , more traditional cases where the industry is a natural monopoly but a long way from being naturally contestable . |
| 24 | Epilepsy may be understood today but it is a long way from being accepted in the same way as diabetes , let alone short sight . |
| 25 | ‘ And you 're a long way from being a saint , are n't you ? ’ he drawled mischievously . |
| 26 | ‘ This match is a long way from being over . ’ |
| 27 | World-wide legal protection of invention and innovation is still a long way from being realized , although countries which include the major producers and users of intellectual property have strong laws protecting the same . |
| 28 | While the increase is encouraging , scientists at the National Marine Fisheries Service warn that the blue whale is still a long way from being taken off the endangered species list . |
| 29 | Though she was learning to cope , she was a long way from being over Guido yet . |
| 30 | The technique is a long way from being proved but it 's given hope to thousands |