Example sentences of "is [verb] [art] long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The normal method of securing is to drive a long nail through the end of the sleeper at an angle into the one beneath . |
| 3 | What is more , much of government expenditure is committed a long time in advance and can not easily be cut . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | But this is looking a long way ahead . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Whenever I have argued this point with other anglers they inevitably say that all you need to do is use a long link and a short hook-length when link-legering to obtain the same effect . |
| 8 | Tod is conducting a long argument , and he is telling the truth , but the invisible people who might hear and judge luckily refuse to believe him and turn away in silence , weariness and disgust . |
| 9 | THE flamboyant diamond dealer , Darius Guppy , best friend of the Princess of Wales 's brother , Earl Spencer , is facing a long prison term after being found guilty of swindling insurers out of £1.8 million . |
| 10 | For example , a client may come to a bureau because he is concerned that the housing benefit to which he is entitled is taking a long time to materialise . |
| 11 | Littleton , Massachusetts-based Alliant Computer Systems Corp is taking a long time to die — too long for Craig Mundie , who resigned as president and chief executive to accept a position with Microsoft Corp as general manager , Advanced Consumer Technologies . |
| 12 | It is taking a long time to redesign the business processes of these industries . |
| 13 | This is taking a long time . |
| 14 | This is taking a long time . |
| 15 | Formed in teams , this task it was then to er across the practice areas whose task it was to get into those clients , get to know them , get to know their industry , get to know the people and find ways in which we could actually penetrate them and er open doors and that was going to take a long time and it is taking a long time . |
| 16 | I simply say that on the debates we 've had on the Policing Bill , I 've learnt what the functions of your Noble House is all about and the speech that 's just been made from across the Chamber from me , sums up entirely my views on the matter , and I say to your Lordships House that on the basis of experience as Northern Ireland Secretary when one is a Home Secretary for a province and there 's a number of people in this House who 've had a job to do including the Noble Lord , The Noble Viscount Whitelaw who set the tone of the way we all proceeded , I accept that , the one of the things we had to do there was bring democracy back to policing and the primary force of policing is taking a long time to do and that here as Home Secretary , everything I learned there was , stop the growing centralisation and the weakening of the police authorities and police force and this Bill does exactly that But now one of the questions I 've asked myself and it 's the only point because all the points have been made that I really want to ask the Government is what are these appointees for ? |
| 17 | For the finance community , what they 've got to do , too , is take a longer term view about projects and give the companies an opportunity to grow and ride the pitfalls and the the peaks and troughs . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | ‘ It really is stretching the long arm of coincidence to breaking point — a husband and wife , both recently employed by INCUBUS , both murdered within twenty-four hours of each other . |
| 20 | She is planning a long holiday in Egypt and America and there has been talk of her working on a new ITV soap called Routes . |