Example sentences of "[noun sg] in a long [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The case was the latest episode in a long history of antagonism between the government and the Far Eastern Economic Review , the circulation of which had been severely restricted in Singapore . |
| 2 | Its purely endogenous nature is well illustrated by the facts that it can be evoked by the absence of a stimulus such as a gap in a long sequence of evenly spaced tones and that the actual probability and significance of the stimulus is less important in determining whether or not the P300 will occur than the subject 's perception of its probability and significance . |
| 3 | This point is discussed further at p104. 5 Defences 5.1 Iniquity In a long line of cases the courts have held that the disclosure of information relating to what was originally termed iniquity will not be restrained : see Gartside v Outram ( 1856 ) 2 LJ Ch 113 , Weld-Blundell v Stephens [ 1920 ] AC 956 ; Initial Services Ltd v Putterill [ 1968 ] 1 QB 396 ; Fraser v Evans [ 1969 ] 1 QB 349 ; Hubbard v Vosper [ 1972 ] 1 All ER 1023 ; Church of Scientology of California v Kaufman [ 1973 ] RPC 635 ; British Steel Corporation v Granada Television Ltd [ 1981 ] 1 All ER 417 ; and Lion Laboratories Ltd v Evans [ 1984 ] 2 All ER 417 . |
| 4 | The buses and coaches which had brought the marchers into town were parked opposite the entrance in a long line down the road . |
| 5 | The England manager chose the final moment in a long line of defeats — the eight wicket one-day hammering by Sri Lanka on Saturday — to admit for the first time fundamental policy errors . |
| 6 | A group of works by contemporaries , often friends collected by an enthusiastic and discerning individual is always appealing and ken Powell takes a deserved place in a long line of such patrons . |
| 7 | Yet climbers appear willing to put an inordinate amount of faith in a long line of brass nuts and then show surprise when they pull like a hot knife through butter . |
| 8 | A professional cuckoo in the hybrid nest of lawyers , architects , engineers and surveyors was the ultimate beneficiary in a long story of disciplinary realignment . |
| 9 | The three Which Mortgage awards are merely the culmination in a long list of achievements in Abbey National 's impressive history . |
| 10 | A hideous , distorted , emaciated maniac without knowledge , without patriotism , without natural affection , spending his life in a long routine of useless and atrocious self-torture , and quailing before the ghastly phantoms of his delirious brain had become the ideal of the nations which had known the writings of Plato and Cicero , and the lives of Socrates and Cato . |
| 11 | The Red Sea came into view in the late afternoon , an intense blue that washed along the flat desert shore in a long line of white . |
| 12 | He began his career as clerk to the influential local builder , Thomas Warr Atwood , and was his spokesman in a long dispute with rival builders over the design for a new guildhall . |
| 13 | Susan Bradley 's voice , at first apologetic then conspiratorial and finally close to tears , squeaked into his ear in a long monologue of complaint and desperation . |
| 14 | Area technical maintenance manager Pete Wootton , 32 , revealed that the wage drop was just the latest generous gesture in a long line of good turns . |
| 15 | She kept trying to tell herself that his was just another face in a long line of faces , but the nearness of him was agonising , and she was forced to face up to a bitter realisation . |
| 16 | It 's another stage in a long line of streamlining with scant regard to customers ’ needs . ’ |