Example sentences of "[be] a long [noun] of [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There has been a long tradition of professional marketing activities by a wide spectrum of non-profit making organisations including political parties , the Health Education Council with its anti-smoking campaign , the Right to Read programme , Oxfam , Christian Aid and the Salvation Army . |
| 2 | In Devon and Cornwall indeed there seems to have been a long tradition of piratical and privateering activity in addition to legitimate trade , which may well have laid the foundation for the activities of seamen from this part of the country in the Elizabethan age ( 63 , pp.159–60 ) . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | And then er , there 's a long line of changing jobs and eventually I came to Dudley . |
| 5 | Nevertheless , there is a long tradition of general education in higher education there ( which suggests that it is England rather than Scotland which is atypical in this respect ) . |
| 6 | It is worth noting that in the USA there is a long tradition of national commissions on the curriculum , as well as a considerable academic literature that has influenced British thinking . |
| 7 | In Jamaica there is a long history of environmental change due to land-use practices . |
| 8 | there is a long history of decentralised management in the field of housing where local offices on council estates have their own budgets for minor repairs . |
| 9 | The notion of a " post-Creole continuum " , first put forward by De Camp ( 1971 ) , is an attempt to explain the complex linguistic situation in those places where there is a long history of native speakers of British English in contact with speakers of an English-based Creole . |
| 10 | It is a long piece of detailed , even pedantic , research on higher education in Britain , which makes numerous descriptive comparisons between the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge , and attempts to understand the differences , similarities and changing natures of the two institutions . |
| 11 | There is a long list of sacked ministers who have objected to her style . |
| 12 | The result is a long list of small , but nonetheless useful improvements such as file compression and ‘ internationalisation modules ’ that enable one user to see NetWare prompts in English , while another on the same server sees them in French or Spanish . |
| 13 | Although our debate today will continue until 2 am , there is a long list of hon. Members who wish to speak and I promised to be brief . |
| 14 | Their income from that capital was a proportionate share of her total net income ( and here there was a long schedule of allowable deductions ) … and so it went on , carefully balancing her interests and theirs . |
| 15 | Where there was a long history of nationalist resistance , notably in Poland , Russification provoked bitter resentment . |
| 16 | The most significant developments occurred in Scandinavia where there was a long tradition of limited cooperation , or at least of a belief in a common cultural area which made such cooperation valuable , if not almost inevitable . |
| 17 | In cotton textile workers ' families , where there was a long tradition of married women 's work , one night a week was usually set aside by husbands and wives as ‘ Mary-Ann night ’ . |
| 18 | There was a long series of public meetings in 1980 and one of these was set up as a sort of week-end rally to which the anti-nuclear people were invited from all over Ireland , and at a big indoor public meeting during that weekend where you would normally have expected about 400 people to turn up , only about two locals turned up and the rest were all outsiders . |
| 19 | There was a long table of scrubbed pine with a tablecloth ( splashed with russet chrysanthemums , the sort of tablecloth you see through the windows of other people 's houses as you walk by at teatime ) folded back to cover crockery set out ready for breakfast , perhaps to keep mice from dirtying the cups . |
| 20 | There was a long counter of polished reddish-brown wood and , behind it , shelves piled with cardboard box upon cardboard box and many coloured , oddly shaped parcels . |
| 21 | There was a long legacy of poor relationships between managers and clinicians , district and units , which hardly facilitated a corporate approach to the reforms . |
| 22 | It was a long tale of low-cost facelifts , make do and mend , and cover up the cracks in a coat of Network SouthEast red , white and blue paint . |