Example sentences of "was a long [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a long way down this road , I was right . |
| 2 | It was a long way to Cornwall . |
| 3 | They will have experienced distance ( ‘ It was a long way to the seaside ’ ) ; time ( ‘ Please can I stay up longer ? ) ; quantity ( ‘ Can I have some more sweets ? ) ; capacity ( ‘ My glass is empty ’ ) and comparison ( ‘ I 'm taller than John ’ ) . |
| 4 | It was a long way to sunset , but the air in the tower seemed to be getting colder by the moment . |
| 5 | It was a long way to Hackballs Cross , and she hated herself for going , spat hatred at herself as she threw the Metro southwards . |
| 6 | Druid 's Bottom was a long way below them : a doll 's house with tall chimneys , tucked in a fold of the valley as if in the crook of an elbow . |
| 7 | I had reached the 11th but was a long way off the green . |
| 8 | But Cook was a long way off selection when the South Africans picked their side for the World Cup and the subsequent mini-tour of the West Indies , which featured the Republic 's only other Test since the dismantling of apartheid . |
| 9 | He was a long way off the ground when she released him and he plummeted to earth and hit the floor and bounced like a football . |
| 10 | In fact I thought the whole fairy-palace effect was a long way over the top and painfully unoriginal . |
| 11 | Defries , with Benny just behind her , was a long way in the other direction . |
| 12 | It is also significant that the steam turbine and the pneumatic tyre were the only major British innovations of this period ; in the new industries she was a long way behind Germany and the United States and by 1914 was falling behind even in the older industries in which she had first established her supremacy . |
| 13 | So the hound was a long way behind him when he began to run . |
| 14 | The end of year deadline for eradication of asbestos-contaminated rolling stock , agreed many years ago between BR and the unions , was quietly and mutually forgotten when it was realised it was a long way from being achieved unless services were decimated . |
| 15 | The principle indicated in those cases was a long way from the circumstances of the present case and was far from warranting the conclusion that by making a photocopy of a document which in the hands of the maker of the photocopy was not privileged , and then sending the photocopy to a solicitor for the purposes of obtaining advice , privilege was thereby cast on the copy sent to the soicitor . |
| 16 | Even though one was a long way from primitive promiscuity , binding individual marriage had not yet appeared . |
| 17 | Singapore , however , had one military drawback : it was a long way from the Arabian Peninsula and the Persian Gulf . |
| 18 | Fiji 's scintillating performance was a long way from their fumbling 15-aside showing in France during the World Cup and one of their newcomers , Mesake Rasari , ensured the player of the tournament award by scoring three tries against New Zealand . |
| 19 | With figures like these the WEA , here as elsewhere , was a long way from being the body of ‘ middle-class ’ students pursuing ‘ soft options ’ which its critics liked to allege . |
| 20 | After a spell at the rehabilitation centre , Guy 's parents realized it was a mistake , and tried to have him transferred to a specialist stroke rehabilitation centre in London , even though this was a long way from home . |
| 21 | He was a long way from being an alcoholic , but he was vulnerable to heavy social drinking and was a sucker for the old Scottish adage ‘ One For The Road ’ . |
| 22 | Practice was a long way from the standard understanding of the concept of budgets based on explicit workloads and levels of activity . |
| 23 | It was a long way from Brewer Street . |
| 24 | The dock of a criminal court was a long way from the line ups Guppy is used to . |
| 25 | This was a long way from the ‘ silent suffering ’ and ‘ passive protest ’ which the NCOAP had sought to articulate . |
| 26 | English forces and the New Englanders worked together reasonably well in operations on the seacoast to capture Port Royal in Nova Scotia , but this was a long way from the centre of French settlement and the port was returned at the end of the war . |
| 27 | It was soon evident that the comfort theme from last year 's trade fair was a long way from being played out . |
| 28 | Tom read just enough of it to see that it was a long way from West Hampstead and no one he knew had been killed or injured . |
| 29 | The Border was a long way from the intrigues of the Court in London , a good thing at times but a disadvantage if one were planning a profitable intrigue of one 's own . |
| 30 | The Yasa was made when your grandsire and mine both thought that it was a long way from Kinsai to the Eastern Sea , ’ he growled . |