Example sentences of "be a long way [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 're a long way off retiring yet , Marlene . |
| 2 | ‘ There 's quite a cloud of smoke , ’ muttered Heather uneasily , ‘ and we 're a long way from it up here . |
| 3 | ‘ Ah well , my dear , you must remember they 're a long way from home , and many of them have n't had much feminine company for a while . |
| 4 | As I said , I 'm never often out , and if you 're a long way from home it 's always good to have some place to drop in to . |
| 5 | We 're a long way from Cambridge now , and my name is Rose . ’ |
| 6 | But it 's hard on Tour when you 're a long way from home and the only creature comforts you have are a television , a telephone and a McDonald 's around the corner . |
| 7 | You 're a long way from home here , right ? |
| 8 | ‘ And you 're a long way from being a saint , are n't you ? ’ he drawled mischievously . |
| 9 | If things go drastically wrong and you 're a long way from home and need to call for help the most effective way is with an orange smoke flare . |
| 10 | But , I mean we 're a long way from that , and I do n't want people to think that I 'm from saying er redundancies are imminent , er |
| 11 | We 're a long way from anywhere here , Fran . |
| 12 | when you go into the villa , A you 've , got to have a car because there 's not a shop and B you 're a long way from the airport and if you get taxis you 're talking about fifty pound a touch from the airport , so that 's twice , so there 's a hundred pound gone already |
| 13 | Seagram , last year 's winner , has been a long way behind that excellence this season , as has Bonanza Boy , the 1991 favourite , whose desertion by Peter Scudamore was clearly influenced by the drying conditions . |
| 14 | If you keep him quiet you are a long way down the road to achieving some success at Leeds . |
| 15 | Products are a long way down the line . |
| 16 | The new appointments demonstrate a commitment by the Saatchi brothers to restore the company 's fortunes and suggest they are a long way from turning their backs on the business they built . |
| 17 | ‘ You are a long way from Achnacarry , Piper ! |
| 18 | At the same time , many of the disadvantaged areas , such as parts of the Mediterranean , Scotland and western Ireland , are a long way from urban and industrial centres . |
| 19 | The only other sense man has had any success in recording and reproducing on its own is sight , although moving pictures and videos are a long way from fooling the human eye in quite the way sound can fool the ear . |
| 20 | Such interviews provide an index of ‘ psychological malaise ’ but they are a long way from producing the more concrete statistics provided by medical consultation , prescription levels and mortality rates . |
| 21 | Anne was right in saying that ‘ you tend to lose the origin of it ’ ; the origins are a long way from what remains , but it does not really matter . |
| 22 | We are a long way from liberating the woman from the artificial status of woman artist , which only serves to segregate her further and prevents her working as an individual professional artist , regardless of her political stance — do we call a man a male artist ? |
| 23 | We are a long way from Egypt , but in many ways the secular world is as merciless as Islam . |
| 24 | We are a long way from the time where a computer could pass a reasonable judgement on the quality of an electronic document . |
| 25 | The bulk of this chapter has been taken up with a discussion of the relationship between the undergraduate curriculum and just two of Lawton 's eight ‘ cultural sub-systems ’ — the social and the economic although the latter has led us into areas which are a long way from the purely economic , and seems to yield a useful typology of undergraduate courses . |
| 26 | And I know that they 're using cultures and things but I still think that we are a long way from not using animals . |
| 27 | Glasgow 's bars are a long way from London café society , and what fascinates Scottish painter Hugh Byars is the humanity behind the faces . |
| 28 | ‘ And the Buskett Gardens are a long way from the back streets of Valletta . ’ |
| 29 | Such ideas are a long way from the truth ; Paul was a Christian , just like us . |
| 30 | Apparently , the institute is considering building a pilot plant , but little is known about its proposals , and clearly we are a long way from that becoming a viable alternative to present-day technology . |