Example sentences of "to [be] a long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No , but I thought you seemed to be a long while getting the bugger out . |
| 2 | Given these difficulties , implementing the White Paper is likely to be a long haul . |
| 3 | Waterville Valley and the World Cup finals in late March was going to be a long haul . |
| 4 | Dozens of boxes of documents were taken into court at the start of the complicated trial , a trial which the jury were warned by the judge , is going to be a long haul . |
| 5 | ‘ I always knew this was going to be a long haul . ’ |
| 6 | Going to be a long journey I would think cos it 's an hour and a half from here to Scarborough on the bus . |
| 7 | A refugee from the Colette-Willy ménage of the early nineteen hundreds , from what promised to be a long stint of sterile work as Willy 's secretary and as yet another among the throng of that extraordinary man 's unacknowledged collaborators , the young Marcel Boulestin fled the malicious gossip , the dramas and scandals in which these two now legendary figures were for ever involving each other and their friends . |
| 8 | ‘ It 's going to be a long night , ’ he said , and he turned to Creed , who had just walked into the room , and smiled . |
| 9 | It was to be a long night . |
| 10 | It was going to be a long night , as I also had to finish an already over-due essay on Swedish expansion in the seventeenth century ( it would have to be a goodish one , too ; an earlier remark — made in an unguarded moment during a methodically boring tutorial — ascribing Swedish territorial gains in the Baltic to the invention of the Smorgasbord with its take-what-you-want ethic , had not endeared me to the professor concerned ; nor had my subsequent discourse on the innate frivolity of the Swedes , despite what I thought was the irrefutable argument that no nation capable of giving a Peace Prize to Henry Kissinger could possibly be accused of lacking a sense of humour . |
| 11 | It was going to be a long night . |
| 12 | It 's going to be a long session . ’ |
| 13 | PHIL WINROW , pictured below , is aiming to be a long range snooker star . |
| 14 | It does not have to be a long passage , it may only be a verse . |
| 15 | ‘ I want to be a long distance lorry driver or one of those dispatch riders in London , that would be quite exciting . |
| 16 | At present they ‘ share ’ the offence of indecent assault with many minor forms of misconduct , such as giving an unwanted kiss or fondling clothes being worn by someone else , for which the penalty is likely to be a long way down the scale . |
| 17 | It was a good thing I did meet him , as the Well of Lunatics proved to be a long way away . |
| 18 | We appear to be a long way from finding effective means of primary prevention of attempted suicide . |
| 19 | ‘ It seems to be a long way . ’ |
| 20 | Despite the confident appeals , the bat seemed to be a long way away from the ball |
| 21 | ‘ But they do seem to be a long way off . |
| 22 | The day when Britain 's independent power producers will be able to sell competitively and freely into a European grid as a matter of right would seem to be a long way off , despite the fact that this was all supposed to have been in place by the end of 1992 . |
| 23 | Among the controversial issues which any negotiations would have to address were the following [ see also p. 36837 for so-called " Harare declaration " on ANC proposals for future negotiations , and p. 36912 for earlier policy guidelines ] : ( i ) nationalization : in press interviews in the days following his release , Mandela had reasserted the ANC 's stated policy of nationalizing certain sectors of the economy , including mines — this immediately provoked sharp falls on South African financial markets [ see also p. 37176 ] ; ( ii ) the armed struggle : Mandela had refused to renounce this policy , repeating on Feb. 14 that government installations were legitimate targets for sabotage [ ibid. ] ; ( iii ) power-sharing : the government and the ANC still appeared to be a long way apart on interpretation — the ANC for its part was not prepared to accept an arrangement similar to the current tri-cameral parliament ; ( iv ) sanctions : Mandela had already stated that " the conditions for which sanctions are being applied still exist " and thus there was no need for a review of the question [ for UK Prime Minister 's unilateral decision to break EC agreement on voluntary sanctions see below ] . |
| 24 | Even though Climent and Bardolet appear to be a long way in front — over 250 points — Meeke explains that Spain uses a European-style co-efficient scoring system . |
| 25 | It was going to be a long day . |
| 26 | Freak ‘ I knew it was going to be a long day . |
| 27 | ‘ Going to be a long day , ’ said the Immigration man . |
| 28 | But it was going to be a long day … |
| 29 | It 's going to be a long struggle getting established and until I am I do n't see how … ’ |
| 30 | The parties may sometimes want the transfer to be effective from a date before the completion date , particularly if there is likely to be a long delay while consents are sought . |