Example sentences of "in a long [noun sg] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A professional cuckoo in the hybrid nest of lawyers , architects , engineers and surveyors was the ultimate beneficiary in a long story of disciplinary realignment . |
| 2 | A querulous voice told him to go and jump in the Thames so he knocked again and eventually the door swung open to reveal a tall , gaunt figure , dressed in a long robe of dyed brown fur . |
| 3 | As the Soviets became involved in a long struggle with Afghan guerrillas , similar in some respects to America 's involvement in Vietnam , Carter began to take punitive measures against Moscow but without fully consulting his NATO allies . |
| 4 | ‘ Do n't worry , Matey , ’ he said to her , leaving the room of many memories , putting his arms about her , seeing with new eyes how old she had grown , and that he was all she had , the last of the many children for whom she had cared in a long life of selfless service . |
| 5 | Mary McCulloch and big Mary went straight along to the Duke 's house with their loads of food and as they went in the Duke came out , dressed in a long plaid of turquoise blue , and had a quick low word with them . |
| 6 | In a long stretch of vulnerable Asian land between Vietnam and Japan they are typhoons — the Chinese words for ‘ big wind ’ ; in the Philippines , which suffer each summer from the most dreadful storms , they are baguios ; on the west costs of Mexico and Central America , cordonazos ; and in north-western Australia , willy-willies . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | In a long list of detailed recommendations , the committee urged institutions and organisations at all levels to recognise these problems and work to solve them . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Nicholas was only one in a long line of young Scots including the 16 year old Spurs player Graeme Souness who found London to be a lively but ultimately lonely city . |
| 11 | Latest in a long line of internal frame alpine packs from Lowe , the Alpamayo has an easy-to-use stepless and lockable Wedge Adjustment back systems which makes achieving a good fit simple . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The Dzhungar state , the last in a long line of typical steppe nomad conglomerates descended from Genghis Khan 's empire , also claimed the more southerly zone where lay the headwaters of the Ob-Irtysh river system . |
| 14 | With hindsight , of course , it is now possible to question the glamorizing of drug-taking in such films as Easy Rider , Psych-Out and The Trip and others ; the in-built health warnings were seldom noticed and there was a certain drugs bandwagon rolling , anyway , largely created in the pop industry where drug usage was not only referred to , even poetically eulogized in song , but physically demonstrated by some of its more tragic exponents like Brian Jones , Jimi Hendrix and Janice Joplin , to name but three in a long line of fallen idols and heroes . |
| 15 | Clint has just met one of The Boys , the latest in a long line of piss-poor pre-pubescent Motown acts that the company hopes will be the new Jacksons . |
| 16 | In an atmosphere of such buoyancy the dealers are obliged to cut margins and try to survive competition from the opportunists for whom the fax boom is simply the latest in a long line of nice little short-term earners , such as double-glazing and car phones . |
| 17 | He was the latest in a long line of seasoned golfers to contract the yips and as a direct result slumped to 51st place on the Order of Merit . |
| 18 | Cover Girl Poker ) or should that be poke her ? ) is the latest in a long line of attempted trouser-arousers to appear on the C64 . |
| 19 | She could n't bear that — could n't stand to become just another in a long line of faceless women whose names he probably could n't even remember . |
| 20 | The Escale , the latest in a long line of successful and stylish models from Prout Catamarans , incorporates the latest thinking in hull , keel and rig designs . |
| 21 | The TR6 was launched in 1969 as the latest in a long line of successful Triumph sportscars . |
| 22 | The TR6 was launched in 1969 as the latest in a long line of successful Triumph sportscars . |
| 23 | PAUL Rideout goes into a Sky TV shoot-out with Graeme Sharp at Boundary Park tomorrow , anxious to prove he can be the latest in a long line of great Everton centre-forwards . |
| 24 | Charlemagne was succeeded in 814 by his son Louis the Pious ( Louis I of France ) , the first in a long line of French kings to be crowned at Reims . |
| 25 | Either way , it seemed to be the latest in a long line of crass decisions . |
| 26 | But I do n't love him ; I never have — he was just one in a long line of convenient , undemanding escorts I chose because they did n't threaten my independence … ’ |
| 27 | He is yet another in a long line of Scottish internationalists whose generous gifts on the park were matched by an outrageous streak when they went out to play in the recreational sense . |
| 28 | This became the first in a long line of medieval whodunnits featuring an unusual detective , a 12th-century Benedictine monk named Brother Cadfael : when he is n't tending his herb garden , Cadfael is using his knowledge to solve a seemingly endless series of murders and mysterious disappearances . |
| 29 | ‘ Break Into Windows ’ by Bill Stott and Mark Brearley is the latest in a long line of different guides to using Windows 3.1 . |
| 30 | Flakey Dove is the grandaughter the latest in a long line of local champions |