Example sentences of "there is a long [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Towards the end too , there is a long exhortation of the need to keep the sea , as the means of protecting England . |
| 2 | In Virginia Woolf 's To the Lighthouse there is a long passage in which Mrs Ramsay meditates after her child has been put to bed and she is on her own : |
| 3 | In Jamaica there is a long history of environmental change due to land-use practices . |
| 4 | Much of Britain is densely populated and intensively farmed , and there is a long history of metal mining and movement of minerals and metals . |
| 5 | Judith Ochshorn , a specialist in Near Eastern culture , points out that there is a long history of women as mourners and attendants on the dead : thus ‘ in its cultural context , the presence of women at the cross or at the tomb of Jesus was not exceptional ’ . |
| 6 | There is a long history of the use of conciliation in employment relations , justified because one objective is to secure the continuance of the relationship between the parties in dispute . |
| 7 | Secondly , there is a long history of reaction against abuses of judicial interrogation . |
| 8 | ‘ Secondly , there is a long history of reaction against abuses of judicial interrogation . |
| 9 | In a study of miraculous images of Mary which weep , the author , Father Hebert SM , after saying there is a long history of these writes , ‘ There has never been such an outpouring of tears as there has been in this century … more explicitly during the ten years , 1971–1981 , particularly so in Italy and in the United States ’ . |
| 10 | there is a long history of decentralised management in the field of housing where local offices on council estates have their own budgets for minor repairs . |
| 11 | ‘ There is a long history of MPs , ’ said Evans earnestly , |
| 12 | The notion of a " post-Creole continuum " , first put forward by De Camp ( 1971 ) , is an attempt to explain the complex linguistic situation in those places where there is a long history of native speakers of British English in contact with speakers of an English-based Creole . |
| 13 | There is a long history of members of the aristocracy seeking an alternative Merovingian lord ; effectively it begins with Arcadius calling Childebert into the Auvergne . |
| 14 | There is a long history of concern for the potential significance of childhood parental loss through separation or death , and the development of emotional and behavioural problems in childhood and later life . |
| 15 | There is a long history in the use of case management within rehabilitation services in North America and these have usually been based on psychosocial models in psychiatric rehabilitation . |
| 16 | There is a long run of teak grabrail on each side of the coachroof and the side decks and foredeck are skinned with laid teak , as are the cockpit seats and sole . |
| 17 | There is a long tradition of by-employment , much of it non-agricultural in nature , in Japanese farming families , and the extension of this practice since 1945 — accentuated by the sharp decline of the previously all-important silkworm cultivation — has made part-time farming a dominant feature of the rural sector . |
| 18 | Certainly the word for spirit is female in Hebrew , and there is a long tradition of the divine wisdom being conceived to be feminine . |
| 19 | Compared to the USA , where there is a long tradition of debate about general education ( Squires 1976 ; Gaff 1983 ) , the main influence of the concept of a liberal education in British higher education has probably been on the enactment of the curriculum — on the methods and styles of teaching , the role models and relationships involved , and the general learning ethos and environment . |
| 20 | Nevertheless , there is a long tradition of general education in higher education there ( which suggests that it is England rather than Scotland which is atypical in this respect ) . |
| 21 | It is worth noting that in the USA there is a long tradition of national commissions on the curriculum , as well as a considerable academic literature that has influenced British thinking . |
| 22 | Similarly , there is a long tradition of receipt of state benefits . |
| 23 | There is a long tradition of attending Ballycastle Fair , and some still go . |
| 24 | The nature of language is more complex than amateurs think , and there is a long tradition of scholarship and study to draw upon . |
| 25 | As Miller argues , there is a long tradition among the protestants of Ulster of viewing the British state ambiguously . |
| 26 | There is a long tradition among revolutionary thinkers and activists that communist society would be administered without bureaucratic relationships between political leaders and the people — without , that is , an apparatus which represented the particular interests of a dominant class and which was divorced from those engaged in production ( Hegedus 1976 , p. 17 ) . |
| 27 | There is a long tradition in Britain of hostility to ‘ political espionage ’ , some of which surfaces in this book . |
| 28 | And there is a long tradition in sociological thinking which makes precisely this distinction . |
| 29 | Over the top of the pass there is a long descent through plantations and along a hillside into the fertile valley of Glen More , a quiet cultivated strath where a few farms keep their pastures in good heart , contrasting with the shaggy heights around . |
| 30 | The intuition behind this result is that , when there is a long time to the delivery date , there is still much time for new information to affect the delivery price , and therefore any single piece of information is relatively unimportant . |