Example sentences of "[vb pp] from [art] long [noun sg] of " in BNC.

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1 Despite the fact that he had come from a long line of soldier forebears , even the combination of breeding , upbringing and training no longer made it easy for him to bear the tedium of army life with good grace .
2 Explore the objects and evidence gathered from a long history of local excavation .
3 ‘ … and the pathetic thing was that he thought he had just recovered from a long period of madness . ’
4 The ideology of Hitler and his cronies derived from a long history of pseudo-philosophical state thuggery .
5 Each individual cuckoo nestling is descended from a long line of ancestral cuckoo nestlings , every single one of whom must have succeeded in manipulating its foster-parent .
6 But each individual foster-parent is descended from a long line of ancestors many of whom never encountered a cuckoo in their lives .
7 These measures had resulted from a long period of maturation and fitted into Morrison 's 1944 vision of a ‘ legislative programme of social reconstruction ’ after the war had ended .
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