Example sentences of "are a long [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 If you keep him quiet you are a long way down the road to achieving some success at Leeds .
2 Products are a long way down the line .
3 The new appointments demonstrate a commitment by the Saatchi brothers to restore the company 's fortunes and suggest they are a long way from turning their backs on the business they built .
4 ‘ You are a long way from Achnacarry , Piper !
5 At the same time , many of the disadvantaged areas , such as parts of the Mediterranean , Scotland and western Ireland , are a long way from urban and industrial centres .
6 The only other sense man has had any success in recording and reproducing on its own is sight , although moving pictures and videos are a long way from fooling the human eye in quite the way sound can fool the ear .
7 Such interviews provide an index of ‘ psychological malaise ’ but they are a long way from producing the more concrete statistics provided by medical consultation , prescription levels and mortality rates .
8 Anne was right in saying that ‘ you tend to lose the origin of it ’ ; the origins are a long way from what remains , but it does not really matter .
9 We are a long way from liberating the woman from the artificial status of woman artist , which only serves to segregate her further and prevents her working as an individual professional artist , regardless of her political stance — do we call a man a male artist ?
10 We are a long way from Egypt , but in many ways the secular world is as merciless as Islam .
11 We are a long way from the time where a computer could pass a reasonable judgement on the quality of an electronic document .
12 The bulk of this chapter has been taken up with a discussion of the relationship between the undergraduate curriculum and just two of Lawton 's eight ‘ cultural sub-systems ’ — the social and the economic although the latter has led us into areas which are a long way from the purely economic , and seems to yield a useful typology of undergraduate courses .
13 And I know that they 're using cultures and things but I still think that we are a long way from not using animals .
14 Glasgow 's bars are a long way from London café society , and what fascinates Scottish painter Hugh Byars is the humanity behind the faces .
15 ‘ And the Buskett Gardens are a long way from the back streets of Valletta . ’
16 Such ideas are a long way from the truth ; Paul was a Christian , just like us .
17 Apparently , the institute is considering building a pilot plant , but little is known about its proposals , and clearly we are a long way from that becoming a viable alternative to present-day technology .
18 That the social sciences are a long way from devising scales which even approximate to the temperature scale is not to be wondered at .
19 We are a long way from those factory-owners of the 1830s , living in constant fear of something like slave insurrections ( see The Age of Revolution , epigraph to chapter 11 ) .
20 Rotary committee chairman Tony Dennett said : ‘ The lunch is an ideal opportunity for us to provide hospitality to these students who are a long way from home . ’
21 HOPES that the Highlands and Islands could be in line for a huge European Community aid package are a long way from being fulfilled , according to the Highland Regional Council official masterminding the area 's campaign for so-called Objective One economic status .
22 But although it 's two one to Notts , the scoring is a long way from over and Pisa , two one down , are a long way from being finished with .
23 Add to this cost the growth in government expenditure , and we are a long way in explaining why the real value of the tax threshold , or the level of income at which tax begins to be paid , has fallen during the post-war period .
24 Wise men are a long time in the ship
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