Example sentences of "a long [noun] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | In 1823 a Shorthorn bull was exported to Buenos Aires to begin a long history of the Shorthorn influence on the South American meat trade . |
| 32 | It rested on a grant of authority over the whole country by Gregory to the first archbishop , followed by a long history of the exercise of this authority from the seventh century onwards . |
| 33 | 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 . |
| 34 | It noted that ‘ Corbett McDonald has a long history as a lobbyist for the asbestos industry . |
| 35 | Sheffield was a very different type of town , but like most other places that developed into great Victorian cities it had already had a long history as a market and craft centre . |
| 36 | What 's more it 's one that , contrary to composites ' up-to-the-minute image , has a long history in the specialist motor industry . |
| 37 | In this second talk I want to mention a view which has a long history in the Church , far longer than my previous subject . |
| 38 | Thirty-seven per cent of the national dairy herd is of the Swedish Friesian ( SLB ) , which has a long history in the country . |
| 39 | The tradition of writing ‘ effusions ’ in blank verse had a long history in the eighteenth century , culminating in The Task by William Cowper . |
| 40 | On the contrary , the idea of the Kingdom had a long history in the life of Israel , and the coming of Christ coincided with a feverish wave of expectancy within the nation . |
| 41 | Whatever we may think of Oliphant 's views , we have to assume there would be little point in attacks on [ h ] -dropping by the educated elite unless it was highly salient and widespread , and it is reasonable to assume for these reasons that it probably has quite a long history in the language . |
| 42 | This was known as the ‘ butty system ’ , which has a long history in the area ( Griffin , 1977 , p. 26 ) . |
| 43 | 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 . |
| 44 | The study of the state has a long history in the social sciences . |
| 45 | Whilst recognising that such a survey would be of only indirect relevance to their present situation , the firm has a long history in the area ( since 1890 ) , and its management has an acute awareness that the present local employment situation is likely to deteriorate further without a mix of public/private initiatives . |
| 46 | Guinness has a long history in the African continent and has progressively extended its distribution in the last 30 years . |
| 47 | More generally the idea of the inseparability of cultural and political revolution has a long history within the libertarian tradition with its roots in revolutionary Romanticism . |
| 48 | Opposition to a fixed European exchange rate has a long history within the Labour movement . |
| 49 | I sank on to the bucket and took a long pull at the coffee . |
| 50 | It was a long pull up the hill , and I felt more like doing a roly-poly down it . |
| 51 | Gradually a long lie on a Saturday comes to mean rising at 5 p.m. in time for the Brookside omnibus , your rucksack quietly grows grey mouldy bits at the back of a dark cupboard , and The Face seems more interesting than Tom Weir 's ‘ My Month ’ . |
| 52 | At least she had the satisfaction of a long marriage to a devoted husband . |
| 53 | The catalogue ( Yale , $45 , £30 ) carries a long reconsideration of the artist 's life and career by its curator , Dr Elizabeth Prelinger , assistant professor of fine arts at Georgetown University , with additional essays by Dr Alessandra Comini and Hildegard Bachert . |
| 54 | We are all somewhat the worse for wear after a long night in the hotel bar . |
| 55 | For Greece , as for Germany and one other country in the NATO alliance , the cold war had shut a long border on the other side of which lay once-familiar territory . |
| 56 | It was a long lunch in the presence of our new-found friend , the Rugby World Cup . |
| 57 | The Corporal placed his Bren gun on the window-sill and fired a long burst at the sniper 's position . |
| 58 | With the Triplane boring in from behind he fired a long burst at the dead centre of the bag , and saw the fabric split and flare . |
| 59 | They all heard it , from their radios , from the echoing corridors , followed by a long burst from a Uzi that ended in a muffled slowing , as though it had been smothered to a halt . |
| 60 | 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 . |