Example sentences of "be [verb] the long " in BNC.
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| 1 | Solid fuel is the heating fuel we have been using the longest . |
| 2 | This is so necessary for port facilities and absolutely vital if we are to attract the long term users necessary for the prosperity and long term employment prospects of the port . |
| 3 | Chunnel cynics think the high profile of the rabies defences is meant to draw attention away from the real hazards of what 's been called the longest crematorium in the world |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Ellen , together with thousands of her comrades from SWAPO will soon be inside the country campaigning for the elections , and come independence will be leading the long hard struggle of reconstructing their country after decades of one of the most brutal colonial occupations . |
| 6 | Against the sometimes successful upward negotiation of wages by some groups of urban artisans must be set the long persistence of " customary " rates in other trades . |
| 7 | Labour 's preoccupation in future will be to begin the long task of reconverting such people to the view many of them held in Clement Attlee 's day : that it was worth paying more in tax to produce better public services and a more just postwar society . |
| 8 | The Dean had gone last and , she judged , been gone the longest . |
| 9 | Grumman TBM-3E Avenger N6827C and Tora Tora film Zeke /Harvard IV N15798 have been sold to Tim Wallis/Alpine Fighter Collection in New Zealand , and are making the long journey ‘ down under ’ by sea . |
| 10 | ‘ They are the people who are carrying the long glorious story of Britain forward across the years . |
| 11 | Popescu , a former propaganda chief , and Totu , a former Foreign Minister , were given the longest prison sentences , of 5@1/2 years each , while the others received sentences of two to 4@1/2 years . |
| 12 | By now it was painfully clear that an aircraft display hall was the route for the Museum to take , if it were to secure the long term . |
| 13 | WSR Company Chairman Dennis Taylor flagged off the first passenger train to call at the halt since 1990 on Tuesday , July 14 , accompanied by a grateful family of holidaymakers from the nearby holiday park who were spared the longer walk to Watchet . |
| 14 | One hot summer afternoon Tony , John and Pip were cutting the long grass . |
| 15 | Now , the mechanical coal-cutter , the conveyor belt , and the steel arch for roof support were quickly supplanting the old hand-methods , and for the stalls were substituting the long face where the coal-cutter undercut a greater length of the coal-seam , and the colliers , instead of working in pairs , now worked in groups , filling the coal on to the moving conveyor belt that ran parallel to the face . |
| 16 | The best way to fully appreciate this magnificent landscape is to climb the long grey shoulder of Canisp ( 2,700 feet ) , south of Loch Assynt , an easy three-and-a-half hour walk to the summit and back . |
| 17 | The sooner an agreement is notified the longer the period of protection from fines is likely to be , since such protection does not exist for any period of operation of an agreement prior to notification . |
| 18 | By putting car parks a long way from vulnerable spots , it 's hoped the long ‘ walk-in ’ will mean fewer people reach places under threat . |
| 19 | ‘ She 's taking the long way back , ’ she would say , ‘ the sun 's still warm … she 's enjoying herself … she 's forgotten the time … . ’ |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | ‘ 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 . |
| 22 | Finally , when she was fastening the long row of buttons on a classic dark blue creation , her mother came in , her lovely calm as untouched as ever , as though missing daughters suddenly returning were quite a normal thing . |
| 23 | One of them was holding the longest pair of pliers Dorcas had ever seen . |
| 24 | The Japanese boy was playing the long hole with quite masterful wisdom . |
| 25 | She fell silent for a moment and I saw she was watching the long heaving waves slip past our flanks . |
| 26 | Although some other stick makers were bigger , this was to become the longest surviving stick manufacturer in the Stroud area . |