Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [art] long [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would not have been possible for the long progression towards the perfect physical being , to have ever occurred at all , if it were encumbered by the constraints of compassion , an emotion which , by the very nature of evolution was completely non-existent before the dawn of civilisation . |
| 2 | The EVA wedge at the heel gives good shock absorption , but I wish it travelled the whole length of the boot as I find the balls of my feet get sore after a long day on the hill . |
| 3 | We 're all called to understand ourselves , and to do this it 's necessary that we should understand one another , and this is only possible after a long while of living together . |
| 4 | But I 'd been careful for a long time before that , because I 'd sensed something . |
| 5 | She could n't bear that — could n't stand to become just another in a long line of faceless women whose names he probably could n't even remember . |
| 6 | If her hurried attempt to close it was a betrayal then it was only another in a long line of mistakes . |
| 7 | He is yet another in a long line of Scottish internationalists whose generous gifts on the park were matched by an outrageous streak when they went out to play in the recreational sense . |
| 8 | For environmental health officer John Waite , it 's just another in a long list of complaints about noise . |
| 9 | Michael Meacher , Labour 's employment spokesman , last night said : ‘ The formula is not just another in the long line of bureaucratic barriers which prevent the unemployed claiming benefit . |
| 10 | J. Stannard , Recent Developments in Criminal Law , SLS , 1988 , 59 , averred : " Bevan is another in the long line of cases where courts have adopted a strained construction of legislation in order to convict a person who is clearly guilty of dishonest conduct but also does not appear to be adequately covered by any legislative provision . " |
| 11 | My right hon. and learned Friend the Member for Edinburgh , Pentlands ( Mr. Rifkind ) has made it unequivocally clear over a long period of years that he is wholly opposed to unilateral devolution , which is what the Bill proposes . |
| 12 | Lawrence James 's The Iron Duke adds yet another to the long list of books written by various authors about the 1st Duke over the last 150 years or so . |
| 13 | The name Alnasr Alwasheek somehow just does n't roll off the tongue like that of a 2,000 Guineas winner and would rank high among a long list of awkward names of Arab-owned horses . |
| 14 | In addition we were treated to several interesting idiosyncrasies of the East Anglian scene , such as the long platform at Cambridge station , with its odd method of working . |
| 15 | It is only extinguished or " barred " because the claim it gives to land has been allowed to remain unpressed for a long time in face of a rival title … the effect of the Act is to eliminate . |
| 16 | His arrival in Egypt coincided with the great crisis of June and early July 1942 , when morale among the Middle East forces was at its lowest after the long retreat from Gazala , and the fall of Tobruk . |
| 17 | This is noticeable after a long soak in the bath ; the pads of your fingertips will take on a wrinkled appearance . |
| 18 | We 've got to recognise , if there was no following policy , any thief or drunk driver only has to put their toe down and drive away at speed , comfortable that police wo n't follow them and that is far more dangerous in the long run for the public . |
| 19 | The final was held on April 26 in the Long Room at Trent Bridge and pictured ( above left to right ) are team members , David Lloyd , Derek Creswell , Barbara Johnston and David Vaughan , with Rothmans representative Lindsay Gomer ( second left ) . |
| 20 | All wear the same type of loose shroud , a garment similar to a long nightshirt with draw-strings at the neck and wrists and a cuff deep enough to cover the hand while leaving the fingers exposed . |
| 21 | What was remarkable about the long article on her in her own newspaper were the details of her whereabouts and all her speeches during her pro-democracy movement in the spring , which were selectively presented to incriminate her . |
| 22 | Andrew , is there a feature in this plan called waiver of premium , what these means to you is that if you 're off ill for a long period of time , through accident , ill-health , whatever , Abbey will actually still pay them for you , until you 're well again . |
| 23 | We can also note that the relating of the artistic to the existential is characteristic of a long line of German writers . |
| 24 | With hindsight , of course , it is now possible to question the glamorizing of drug-taking in such films as Easy Rider , Psych-Out and The Trip and others ; the in-built health warnings were seldom noticed and there was a certain drugs bandwagon rolling , anyway , largely created in the pop industry where drug usage was not only referred to , even poetically eulogized in song , but physically demonstrated by some of its more tragic exponents like Brian Jones , Jimi Hendrix and Janice Joplin , to name but three in a long line of fallen idols and heroes . |
| 25 | Avoiding everybody in the staffroom is likely in the long term to be a bad strategy because its result is isolation . |
| 26 | Learner drivers are often frustrated at the long wait for driving tests . |
| 27 | Oct-11a is located in a region of mouse chromosome 9 homologous with the long arm of human chromosome 11 . |
| 28 | Many of the classic economic and social indicators of fertility decline had been present for a long time in nineteenth-century Britain . |
| 29 | I was very unhappy for a long time after that . |
| 30 | " It is a woman you will be then , Sara Hussey , " she whispered to herself , and lay awake for a long time after , watching a narrow strip of moonlight creep slowly across the wall . |