Example sentences of "[prep] a long list [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I feel as if I have come to the end of a long list of jobs dating back over several months . |
| 5 | One of a long list of commandments , much more extensive than the original ten , that had circumscribed the exploits of Preston 's youth . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Phil was the first of a long list of people to tackle this challenge — abseiling down the 170 feet of the electrical engineering tower . |
| 8 | This ceremony , called puja , involves the recitation of a long list of seers and gods to show the ‘ pedigree ’ of a mantra . |
| 9 | The Botanic Gardens in Edinburgh also has had a long involvement with the cultivation and development of plants with medicinal properties and we have our own Scottish traditions of herbal cures for a long list of ailments . |
| 10 | Once again we 've supplied the sails for a long list of medal winners . |
| 11 | What Katherine found daunting was the ambience within : the large unsmiling woman who sat at a table in the entrance hall and stiffly handed her two sheets of paper , one with a map of the school which showed her own room clearly marked , the other with a long list of instructions printed in four languages , French , German , Italian and English ; a smell which mingled disinfectant and scouring soap ; the difference in temperature between the stifling main body of the school and the chill of the outlying wing where she found her room . |
| 12 | Now the family 's fears had been proved groundless , the bungled pay-off could be dismissed as just another example of clumsy incompetence on the part of the police , the latest in a long list of blunders . |
| 13 | For environmental health officer John Waite , it 's just another in a long list of complaints about noise . |
| 14 | The three Which Mortgage awards are merely the culmination in a long list of achievements in Abbey National 's impressive history . |
| 15 | Somewhat surprisingly , given the avowed centrality of curriculum development in the project , " linking the centre closely to the curriculum of the school " appears only as the last in a long list of implementation steps . |
| 16 | Thus , the draftsman should be especially careful before embarking on a long list of matters that fall within a particular covenant . |
| 17 | He found it difficult to get consultants interested in community care because it was only one on a long list of issues . |
| 18 | After the revolution , B. A. Henman , the Registrar of the Royal Society of Chemistry , explained that Elena Ceauşescu 's ‘ application was supported by a long list of papers published in her name … |