Example sentences of "[is] a long [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's a long way down fifty feet or more . |
| 2 | A fully integrated policy 's a long way down the road |
| 3 | It 's a long way down Ray ! |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It 's a long way to Tipperary , Mandalay and Bedford Square . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It 's a long way to the pawnshop — |
| 8 | It 's a long way to the pawnshop — |
| 9 | And it 's a long way to where we came in . |
| 10 | 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 ’ . |
| 11 | " It 's a long way for him to come every time he wants a crap , said Eddie , running off before I could hit him . |
| 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 | Mind you the van 's a long way behind him anyway |
| 14 | He 's a long way from the roots of the sport . |
| 15 | ‘ He 's a long way from home . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ It 's a long way from the back streets of Brixton to the green fields of Huntingdon , ’ he impressed on the county set . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | This is hardly a stream of invective and obscenity but it 's a long way from the stuffed shirt formality of the '50s interviews . |
| 19 | It 's a long way from completion , but Bill says he 's already approached ROBERT DE NIRO to play Elvis . |
| 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 | 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 ’ ! |
| 22 | After all , it 's a long way from Manchester . ’ |
| 23 | 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 … ’ |
| 24 | " Well , " the seneschal said , " it 's a long way from here to there . " |
| 25 | But I can assure you it 's a long way from the truth . ’ |
| 26 | I 'm afraid that 's a long way from the truth . ’ |
| 27 | It 's a long way from Washington , USA to Wing in Buckinghamshire , but Sandra Walker will tell you it 's a move worth making . |
| 28 | It 's a long way from the sturdy frames the technicians normally handle . |
| 29 | It 's a long way from the wild west ; more of a vale where the only horse around is the white one carved on a hill nearby , but Uffington has become the annual venue for the national gun slinging championships . |
| 30 | It 's a long way from the stiff formality of a normal Lord Lieutenant 's engagement . |