Example sentences of "to [be] a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was as if he were memorizing her life so he could sail to New York , adopt a different accent , and claim to be a long lost relative due a piece of her fortune which had n't been considerable and might all be gone now . |
| 2 | But all in all , it seems likely to be a long time before we reach that ‘ Utopian world of RDS ’ for all listeners in cars , at home or on foot ! |
| 3 | Given these difficulties , implementing the White Paper is likely to be a long haul . |
| 4 | It does not have to be a long passage , it may only be a verse . |
| 5 | At present they ‘ share ’ the offence of indecent assault with many minor forms of misconduct , such as giving an unwanted kiss or fondling clothes being worn by someone else , for which the penalty is likely to be a long way down the scale . |
| 6 | After years of foraging and running wild , Sadie was given one last chance to start a new life , but the learning process proved to be a long and challenging one |
| 7 | It was a good thing I did meet him , as the Well of Lunatics proved to be a long way away . |
| 8 | It was going to be a long day . |
| 9 | ‘ I want to be a long distance lorry driver or one of those dispatch riders in London , that would be quite exciting . |
| 10 | It was to be a long time before any disciples appeared to revitalize the game , and even after Busby , Shankly , Clough and others the cry still goes up ( not always reasonably ) that football is too negative . |
| 11 | We appear to be a long way from finding effective means of primary prevention of attempted suicide . |
| 12 | Green had already spent so long on his maps , carefully recording every field and alley-way , that Laurent could see it was going to be a long task , and also that the end result would be large and quite expensive . |
| 13 | It 's going to be a long struggle getting established and until I am I do n't see how … ’ |
| 14 | ‘ It seems to be a long way . ’ |
| 15 | It 's just going to be a long , slow process . |
| 16 | ‘ It 's going to be a long night , ’ he said , and he turned to Creed , who had just walked into the room , and smiled . |
| 17 | After Leeds slipped towards the relegation zone with a 3-1 defeat at Blackburn on Saturday , McAllister forecast : ‘ It is going to be a long hard winter . |
| 18 | The dressing gown had proved to be a long , stylish , ankle-length duster coat which was loosely woven from a delicate white cotton . |
| 19 | The idea was to move away from an elitist and centralist view of things , yet it was to be a long time before such changes were implemented in the Government 's media , and it might well be argued that they have not progressed very far to this day . |
| 20 | When they reached the approach to what appeared to be a long deep cutting , Mary stopped . |
| 21 | The break was intended to be a long one , possibly a year or two . |
| 22 | As his biographer has pointed out it was to be a long time ‘ before he had an equal in the study of archaeology on a scientific basis or as an illustrator of archaeological relics ’ ( Jessup 1975 , p. 109 ) . |
| 23 | L. Lives Like Logs of Driftwood : This wants to be a long , very well written story . |
| 24 | I think it 's going to be a long summer with a lot of killings . ’ |
| 25 | Freak ‘ I knew it was going to be a long day . |
| 26 | There needs to be a long term education of cyclists and I sincerely apologise to those walkers who have had any bad experiences . |
| 27 | The restoration of this machine is likely to be a long term task , but one which is well within the capabilities of the centre 's restoration team . |
| 28 | Despite the confident appeals , the bat seemed to be a long way away from the ball |
| 29 | The Government has yet to appoint its three Committee members , and this is likely to be a long business , since confusion still reigns following the April elections . |
| 30 | A refugee from the Colette-Willy ménage of the early nineteen hundreds , from what promised to be a long stint of sterile work as Willy 's secretary and as yet another among the throng of that extraordinary man 's unacknowledged collaborators , the young Marcel Boulestin fled the malicious gossip , the dramas and scandals in which these two now legendary figures were for ever involving each other and their friends . |