Example sentences of "[noun sg] [art] long [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Through a gap a long wave of treetops stretched to the horizon , in the middle distance the smoke was coming and going in irregular bursts as they had seen it do once before from Ridgery Steep . |
| 2 | In Smolensk guberniia a long list of bridges , points , and crossings had been blown up in military action . |
| 3 | There were memories which , he suspected , would be even more insistent than Kerrison marking out with his cartilage knife on the milk-white body the long line of the primary incision . |
| 4 | In the pre-1965 period a long run of higher than average precipitation allowed the spread northward of rain-fed cultivation , dominated by millet , and at the same time the increased populations placed more pressure on the vegetation for fuelwood . |
| 5 | The choreographer can make an overall rhythm fur a long phrase of music and within it shorter phrases . |
| 6 | The priest completed his circuit and disappeared behind the altar screen , leaving in his wake a long trail of incense which gradually mounted into the roof and lost itself among the ostrich eggs and silver censers suspended there . |
| 7 | In the abstract the Free City arrangements might have worked , but they failed to take into account the hostilities they provoked ; failed to take into account the fears and prejudices unleashed by the sudden alteration of patterns of trade and allegiance ; and failed to take into account the long years of humiliating Polish partition , Prussian Polenpolitik and the rise of revolutionary Russia . |
| 8 | He also put on sale a long pamphlet of his own , National Socialism Now , to justify his secession from Mosley and the new course he had chosen . |
| 9 | Those who are inclined towards reform reversal , place much more weight on the way the long dominance of the Conservative LDP party allowed it to pack the Supreme Court with its own nominees , so that the independence of the Judiciary is a myth . |
| 10 | There is in English a long tradition of Horatian poetics . |
| 11 | On horseback the long reach of the swordsman is supported by his horse , enabling him to use with great effect a weapon that might be cumbersome on foot . |
| 12 | In France the Third Republic inherited from the old monarchy and the Second Empire a long tradition of such support for Catholic missions in the Near East and China and showed itself as willing as its predecessors to shoulder what it felt to be its obligations in this respect . |
| 13 | Are the present problems unusual or has the client a long history of similar difficulties ? |