Example sentences of "the [noun] of a long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We should also recall that the nature of the war , sieges pursued by both sides and the defence of a long frontier stretching from Le Crotoy in the east to Mont-Saint-Michel in the west , dictated a kind of war in which heavy cavalry played relatively little part other than in defence . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Here I hope that I am in the present with the advantage of a long view back as well . |
| 4 | This is obviously not new , and is in part an expansion of the teaching of a long line of papal encyclicals on social justice beginning with Leo XIII 's Rerum Novarum and extending up to Pope John 's Mater et Magistra and Pacem in Terris , but there is no possible doubt that the Council , following in this the footsteps of Pope John , gave both a wider range and a new urgency to concerns of this kind as properly constitutive of a very large part of Christian living . |
| 5 | Happily the other Albert the one with two rather than four legs was in finer fettle , despite a morning spent wrestling with the complexities of a long speech . |
| 6 | But the second perspective is that the rent review clause is the landlord 's price for the grant of a long term , in the absence of which he would have granted a shorter term . |
| 7 | That evening I went to see an old friend ( that is , old in years ) in case out of the experience of a long life she might bring forth words of wisdom . |
| 8 | In 1987 33 per cent of the population , 35 per cent of females and 32 per cent of males , reported the presence of a long standing illness . |
| 9 | Ramblers are angry that a golf clubhouse is being built across the route of a long distance footpath . |
| 10 | Indeed , sometimes the original participants would leave in the course of a long recording session . |
| 11 | In the course of a long interview in his apartment , I found myself quite charmed by his lack of pretension , inarticulate babble sprinkled with the occasionally brilliant observation and odd habit of quoting himself , but I nevertheless remained convinced that Koons ' self-effacing earnestness was a scam . |
| 12 | In the course of a long lifetime , his bold concept was proved an amazing success . |
| 13 | In the course of a long lifetime ( 1752–1842 ) he changed the entire face of this part of the country , through his own efforts and those of his imitators . |
| 14 | In the course of a long career he became the leading locally based figure in the architecture of the town during the later seventeenth century and the beginning of the eighteenth , being involved in many of the collegiate building projects of the period . |
| 15 | In City of Chicago v. Tribune Co. ( 1923 ) 139 N.E. 86 Thompson C.J. of the Supreme Court of Illinois in the course of a long judgment , all of which is of great interest , said , at p. 90 : |
| 16 | Tweed , the Liberal election agent , ‘ knew … that it was not illness or the tedium of a long convalescence which kept him out , but that his heart was not in it and that confronted with the serried ranks of vested interests which compose this new Government , his sympathies were as always with the bottom dogs … ' |
| 17 | Consequently many Greek writers of the fifth century and later realized that their own society was the end-product of a long period of advance . |
| 18 | Few stories about their activities went beyond the editing-down of a long speech — except , perhaps , to relate that the occasion was attended by ‘ leading party and Government officials ’ . |
| 19 | Professor John in a seminal article stressed the great importance of the coincidence of a modest rate of population growth , putting no general pressure on a food supply expanded by a generation of agricultural improvement , with the bounty of a long period of good harvests . |
| 20 | Vallois ( 1957 ) considers that the weight of a long bone ( which takes into account the size-differences of various areas ) to be a better discriminant than other long-bone characters which have been employed . |
| 21 | The incorporation of a long passage from a Board of Education memo on evening schools indicates that the Committee feels itself to be in consonance with the Board " s thinking , not only on the inadequacies of vocational education , but also on the value of English as a force for cultural nationalization . |
| 22 | Given the general anxiety to avoid long-term indebtedness , a stated preference for small instalments — even at the expense of a long repayment period — must often be interpreted as recognition of tight budget limits that rule out larger instalments . |
| 23 | She had gone to bed early thinking of the luxury of a long night 's rest but woke from sleep unwell . |
| 24 | The next morning they were idling in the luxury of a long breakfast , enjoying the chatting in the warmth of the room , the tussocks in the white field outside the window stiff with frost , the only green grass the huge dark circles under the cypress trees , when a single shotgun blast came from the front room . |
| 25 | The funeral , attended by President Turgut Özal , was the result of a long campaign for the rehabilitation of Menderes , led by the ruling Motherland Party and the opposition True Path Party . |
| 26 | What I am today is the result of a long process . |
| 27 | In reality , of course , they are the result of a long chain of conscious decision making . |
| 28 | In any case , a study of neolithic Early Minoan buildings very strongly implies that the temples were not an implant but the result of a long period of indigenous development . |
| 29 | By then the ethnic composition of its native population was multifarious and complex , being the result of a long period of prehistoric development . |
| 30 | 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 . |