Example sentences of "to be [vb pp] [art] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | Toby seemed to be gone a long time , but I was n't measuring time very accurately . |
| 2 | The infant retrieves , or witnesses the retrieval of an object from behind A ( say ) three times , after which he watches as the experimenter moves it to place B. On seeing it vanish at B he will go straight back to A. Although the back-to-A error is more likely to be made the longer the delay between hiding at B and allowing search , this is not a memory problem in any simple sense because the infant will return to A even if the object remains visible at B. We find a particularly clear demonstration of this kind of ‘ perseveration ’ in an experiment by Paul Harris in which there were two transparent , lockable boxes as the A and the B location . |
| 3 | For a tight turn the back foot will need to be placed a long way back on the board . |
| 4 | A few of us may become angry , but most of us have to be pushed a long way before we abandon our normal passivity . |
| 5 | He was lucky to be spared a long fuddled decline into the garbage heap . |
| 6 | We were pleased to be awarded a long term contract from BP for integrated engineering services on their Magnus , Thistle and Miller platforms . |
| 7 | It either comes from the river beds or is scraped from rock ( tufa ) higher up the mountain — either way it has to be carried a long way over steep slopes . |
| 8 | But because the new craft will broadcast at a high power , they will have to be spaced a long way apart so that TV sets in , say , Canada do not receive signals meant for the US . |