Example sentences of "is a long [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is a long distance from the rural areas of Wyre and there would be substantial costs in time and money for magistrates , witnesses and police making the journey to Fleetwood . |
| 2 | Towards the end too , there is a long exhortation of the need to keep the sea , as the means of protecting England . |
| 3 | But it is a long way to upper Strath Conon , especially from the Welsh Marches , whence my companion had drive . |
| 4 | ‘ It is a long way to the Greshorns , ’ Guillamon said . |
| 5 | It is a long way to Talisker , and there are fewer beasts to be met on the river than on the land these days . |
| 6 | Fifty miles is a long way for a young child to go alone . ’ |
| 7 | The Water People has already received a lot of good reviews , and Simpson is a long way into his next project , a sort of autobiography . |
| 8 | The North Riding is a long way from London . |
| 9 | MOTHERWELL Civic Hall is a long way from Las Vegas , but when Gary Jacobs defends his Commonwealth welterweight title there tonight against Donovan Boucher , the Canadian champion , he will be aiming to take the international spotlight from old stagers like Lloyd Honeyghan and Kirkland Laing . |
| 10 | It is a long way from that to his limp affirmation of the central tenets of Islam . |
| 11 | But it is a long way from the recognition of such local features to the interpretation of whole scenes . |
| 12 | This tool is a long way from the cheapest heat guns . |
| 13 | This is the best that can be hoped for , even if it is a long way from a fully satisfying life . |
| 14 | This is a long way from Dicey 's reliance on them as the guardians of our rights . |
| 15 | This is never an easy matter and the mere attendance of students at a meeting can create the impression of real involvement when this is a long way from reality . |
| 16 | In practice , our solution is a long way from effective . |
| 17 | It is a long way from swings and roundabouts . |
| 18 | One does n't want to wallow in the nostalgia trap so temptingly set by TV Heaven and its bebow-tied host Frank Muir ( though they show Honor Blackman in her Avengers leather kit , it 's hard to resist ) , but Old Boy Network is a long way from The Likely Lads . |
| 19 | That is a long way from the Chancellor 's unsubstantiated allegation yesterday that tabloid newspapers ‘ encourage people to tell unsubstantiated allegations ’ . |
| 20 | It is a long way from London to Al Ain . |
| 21 | It is a long way from the post-punk Big Black noise of old that first did the rounds of Ireland , which they confirm themselves the following day when , nursing Alps-sized hangovers , the threesome spill out stories of their past as we head through New York to the photo-shoot in the Bronx . |
| 22 | It is a long way from Kempsey , New South Wales , to Wembley . |
| 23 | But this is a long way from arguing that they were such political pariahs that the deposition of Edward V could seem preferable to a regime dominated by them . |
| 24 | His behaviour is a long way from human language with all its expressive power and complex syntactic properties . |
| 25 | This is a long way from the central idea of total quality management — that the patient or customer is king . |
| 26 | Epilepsy may be understood today but it is a long way from being accepted in the same way as diabetes , let alone short sight . |
| 27 | Er so er let's say that the ten percent rate applies , er mind you ten percent is a long way from where we are now , but it makes the figures easy to look at , so er let's say that he 's getting ten percent gross on his return on a building society , he 'd actually get seven and a half percent net , er so on his ten thousand he 's going to earn seven fifty . |
| 28 | This is a long way from reality . |
| 29 | This is a long way from sociobiology , but we are back again at the problem of continuity/discontinuity . |
| 30 | It is a long way from the dark pine forests and the frozen rivers of northern Europe to the sun-baked sands of Arabia . |