Example sentences of "[vb -s] a long [noun sg] of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Queen heads a long list of lenders of the more than 700 objects in the exhibition . |
| 2 | Nicetius of Trier threatened to excommunicate Theudebert I for adultery , and he frequently excommunicated Chlothar I. He heads a long line of saints who dared to challenge the Merovingians on their sexual profligacy . |
| 3 | Prague has a long history of defenestrations and in 1948 Jan Masaryk , the foreign minister , the founding president 's son and one of only three non-communist ministers in the government , was found dead , having apparently exited from his office window . |
| 4 | The University of Chicago Press has a long list of titles for the coming spring season , in contrast with last year 's more restricted offering . |
| 5 | Labour has a long list of priorities : a £3 billion pledge on pensions — presumably health comes after that ; health presumably comes after Labour 's £1 billion recovery programme and it presumably comes after Labour 's £8 billion housing pledge . |
| 6 | One brown , scratched negative reproduced by the Armenian Tashnag militia in Beirut shows a long column of men being led out of an Armenian village by Turkish troops . |