Example sentences of "be [to-vb] [art] long [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 This is so necessary for port facilities and absolutely vital if we are to attract the long term users necessary for the prosperity and long term employment prospects of the port .
2 Labour 's preoccupation in future will be to begin the long task of reconverting such people to the view many of them held in Clement Attlee 's day : that it was worth paying more in tax to produce better public services and a more just postwar society .
3 Yes I I I would accept that as a general point yes that that that that that that the greater number of years , the more likely you are to get a long term trend .
4 By now it was painfully clear that an aircraft display hall was the route for the Museum to take , if it were to secure the long term .
5 To link small variations in a single protein with the existence of an all-purpose ‘ addictive personality ’ is to go a long way too far .
6 The normal method of securing is to drive a long nail through the end of the sleeper at an angle into the one beneath .
7 The net effect of these transactions is to establish a long position of $180 000 in a synthetic index future which comprises the thousand smaller shares quoted on the NYSE which are not in the S&P500 index .
8 Here the solution is to set a long net around the thicket so that it is totally surrounded and enclosed , in the hope that the rabbits can be bolted out and entangled in the net .
9 A second method is to note the longest search required to find a free storage position when synonyms are stored , and to limit searches to this length during retrieval .
10 There I was to have a long conversation with young Middleton , to whom I took a great shine , and was very impressed with him as a person and indeed his crew .
11 Finally , the question of national guilt and its expiation was to have a long history in relation to abolition and emancipation involving a definition of national interest as meeting national duty by observing the religious conception of proper order in the world .
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