Example sentences of "[is] [art] long [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of these is the long history of incorporation into the global capitalist system by the TNCs ( see Shenton and Freund , 1978 ) . |
| 2 | english linesmen/refs for some reason tend to blow offside on players not interfering with play — you see this most often when there is the long ball from defence/keeper towards the other penalty area with attackers running against the midfield clearly with no possibility of reaching the ball or trying to do so . |
| 3 | The nearest approach , perhaps , is the long belt of deltas extending today , from the Ganges in eastern India , via the Brahmaputra , the Irrawaddy and the Sittang , to the rivers of the Gulf of Siam and on via the Mekong to the Sang-koi and Si-kiang rivers of southern China . |
| 4 | In total contrast to this ancient village is the long stretch of beach , nightlife , bars and bodegas , all of which add up to make a holiday in Mojacar a most memorable and enjoyable one . |
| 5 | For the proximo-distal axis , that is the long axis of the limb , from the shoulder to the fingers , there is a rather different mechanism for specifying positional information . |
| 6 | A further useful beginning to identifying needs is the long article on the History of Education in the Encyclopaedia Britannica ; whilst much of this is not relevant directly to the study of local history , it is good background to the history of the English national systems of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries . |
| 7 | ‘ What 's the long face for ? 'Ave yer worn yer welcome out ? ’ he asked none too sympathetically . |
| 8 | It 's a long way down fifty feet or more . |
| 9 | A fully integrated policy 's a long way down the road |
| 10 | It 's a long way down Ray ! |
| 11 | It 's a long way through the massive forests of larch and pine to Novosibirsk , especially if your travelling companion only grunts as he downs another tumbler of cheap vodka . |
| 12 | It 's a long way to Tipperary , Mandalay and Bedford Square . |
| 13 | The hit song of the year was ‘ It 's A Long Way to Tipperaray ’ but old Ireland was singing an older song and building up a hidden army . |
| 14 | It 's a long way to the pawnshop — |
| 15 | It 's a long way to the pawnshop — |
| 16 | And it 's a long way to where we came in . |
| 17 | After the ship 's foghorn had blasted out six times , they set sail from Dover , one thousand men huddled together on the deck of HMS Resolution singing , ‘ It 's a Long Way to Tipperary ’ . |
| 18 | " It 's a long way for him to come every time he wants a crap , said Eddie , running off before I could hit him . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Mind you the van 's a long way behind him anyway |
| 21 | He 's a long way from the roots of the sport . |
| 22 | ‘ He 's a long way from home . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ It 's a long way from the back streets of Brixton to the green fields of Huntingdon , ’ he impressed on the county set . |
| 24 | It 's the closest we 're going to get to a rave tonight , but it 's a long way from the kind of thing Mister C is used to . |
| 25 | This is hardly a stream of invective and obscenity but it 's a long way from the stuffed shirt formality of the '50s interviews . |
| 26 | It 's a long way from completion , but Bill says he 's already approached ROBERT DE NIRO to play Elvis . |
| 27 | 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 |
| 28 | IT 'S A long way from the dark night vigils outside the Opera House when protesters railed against Godard 's ‘ blasphemous ’ ‘ Je Vous Salue Marie ’ and Scorcese 's ‘ Last Temptation of Christ ’ ! |
| 29 | After all , it 's a long way from Manchester . ’ |
| 30 | She 's a long way from any source of supply and if there 's something that has to be specially made , or is too bulky to fly out — a new engine , for instance … ’ |