Example sentences of "of a long [noun sg] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The secret of a long day of battle was fitting the components together : the state of caution ; the state of preparedness ; the state of uncaring action ; the state of elation ; the state of waiting ; so that each stage matched the others in sureness and strength , with every thread of body and mind strung to its finest pitch ready to sing to the touch , from one night 's sleep until the next , or until death itself . |
| 2 | Right now it 's the end of a long day in London and the 48-year-old Young prowls the room with a stooped , rangy gait , the traces of a roguish grin on his well-worn face . |
| 3 | It 's old ladies who show all the signs of a long life on subsistence , though they would n't necessarily see themselves as having been poor , because their husbands were n't necessarily poor . |
| 4 | A curious picture was forming in his mind — of a long thread of cotton with the black slaves on one end and himself and the rest of the children on the other . |
| 5 | He saw Ras Tafari — later Haile Selassie - return from a great battle which was the beginning of a long road to Emperorship . |
| 6 | The work marks the end of a long battle at Darlington council over the best pedestrianisation plan for Darlington . |
| 7 | Both men were bound over to keep the peace , but the incident was the beginning of a long history of misbehaviour which was to drive a wedge between Gallacher and the unfortunate clubs who tried to tame his wayward spirit . |
| 8 | ‘ The hammer ’ , Hortensia said , ‘ is actually a ruddy great cannon-ball on the end of a long bit of wire , and the thrower whisks it round and round his or her head faster and faster and then lets it go . |
| 9 | A. G. Dickens , in particular , has consistently maintained that the anti-clerical tracts of lawyers such as Simon Fish and Christopher St German were not merely isolated examples of lay hostility to the church , totally unrepresentative of public opinion , but on the contrary part of a long tradition of anti-clericalism among the literate classes , and most especially London merchants , common lawyers , parliamentarians , and royal officials . |
| 10 | However this may be , it is both the climax of a long tradition of minstrelsy and in part , perhaps in large part , the work of a poet of considerable accomplishment . |
| 11 | The other , even more revealing letter , was written early in 1945 , after Walter had spent part of a long leave with Viola and the children ( now alone , with divorce a matter of months away ) in their London flat . |
| 12 | He gestured towards the first of a long row of recuperation pods , where Christine LaFayette 's face was visible through a clear plastic window . |
| 13 | By good luck , they were in the middle of a long stint in London . |
| 14 | He claimed that the circumstances of putting the death penalty into effect , in particular the likelihood of a long delay between sentence and execution during which time he would be on death row , would constitute an inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment contrary to Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights . |
| 15 | At that point , rather late one night , he and I had the last of a long sequence of talks . |
| 16 | For it was born out of a long histtory of protest . |
| 17 | Palafox and Romana are thus the first of a long succession of generals who claimed that the army officers embodied the general will of the nation , perverted by a selfish clique of unpopular politicians . |
| 18 | The chances are you 've not yet considered the security of your home , not a lot of people do — it 's at the bottom of a long list of priorities . |
| 19 | It may not even prove to be possible unless the criteria are very broad , and therefore ambiguous , because of the problems of recording mastery of a long list of criteria . |
| 20 | Further , under the British Code of Advertising Practice , no advertisement to the lay public is allowed in respect of a long list of diseases and conditions , including cataracts , glaucoma , kidney disease VD , tuberculosis , any heart disease , hypertension , diabetes , cancer , epilepsy and so on . |
| 21 | I feel as if I have come to the end of a long list of jobs dating back over several months . |
| 22 | One of a long list of commandments , much more extensive than the original ten , that had circumscribed the exploits of Preston 's youth . |
| 23 | But in 1984 , Arthur succumbed to an obscure lung complaint that almost killed him , the first of a long list of lay-offs throughout his career . |
| 24 | Phil was the first of a long list of people to tackle this challenge — abseiling down the 170 feet of the electrical engineering tower . |
| 25 | This ceremony , called puja , involves the recitation of a long list of seers and gods to show the ‘ pedigree ’ of a mantra . |
| 26 | It is worth noting that many of the recent habitat changes caused by agriculture in Sussex , and elsewhere , partly result from the reversal of a long decline in farming prosperity between 1875 and 1940 . |
| 27 | It was during the late 1770s that the long proposed Stroudwater canal became a reality and this signalled the start of a long war of words between the Company of Proprietors and the Purnells . |
| 28 | One can not be surprised when , quite apart from reservations in the social worker himself about handling sexual matters , the worker has a strong sense that , if he even tries , his particular behind may mark the end of a long chain of kicks ! |
| 29 | In February 1812 , Andrew Berkeley Drummond , newly appointed Keeper of the Privy Purse by the ailing George III , wrote to a cousin joining the bank of a long letter of banking advice . |
| 30 | For James Tranter 28 , a wealthy interior designed and 27-year-old Kevin Swan , a successful , equally wealthy jazz musician , it 's the end of a long orgy of theft throughout London 's top stores , including Jaeger , Austin Reed and Blazer |