Example sentences of "a long [noun sg] of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I 'm very lucky , she thought , I might just avoid being turned into a long smear of guts and blood . |
| 2 | He uses a special tool called a cheese iron to pull a long plug of cheese out of one truckle from each day 's production . |
| 3 | He uncorked his canteen and took a long drink of water . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | And there he has obstinately been retained , despite a long run of failure unprecedented in my experience among specialist batsmen . |
| 6 | Facing the front of the Post Office was a long row of seal-makers and scribes squatting in the dust with their customers . |
| 7 | The experimental method is basically to lay out a long row of test-tubes each containing a solution of RNA-replicase , and also of raw materials , small molecules that can be used for RNA synthesis . |
| 8 | Against the wall were ranged , in regular array , a long row of elm boards cut into the same shape : looking , in the dim light , like high-shouldered ghosts with –heir hands in their breeches-pockets . |
| 9 | He gestured towards the first of a long row of recuperation pods , where Christine LaFayette 's face was visible through a clear plastic window . |
| 10 | He put up his hands and found it was a long strand of seaweed . |
| 11 | In the suspended moment Jess saw a long strand of cobweb stretching from window to floor , flecks of dust spinning in a shaft of sunlight , her petticoat in a ball against a pile of hay , the filthy shirt on the nail where she 'd hung it the night before . |
| 12 | Her eyes opened and she saw that he had tugged a long strand of hair free and was playing it between his fingers . |
| 13 | The vacuum cleaner , sensing her lack of concentration , took advantage of it to munch and slaver up a long strand of rug fringe : there was a smell of burning rubber . |
| 14 | There 's a long bit of ash on the end of her fag , and when she talks it falls off onto the chickens . |
| 15 | What a long bit of New York , I thought . |
| 16 | ‘ The hammer ’ , Hortensia said , ‘ is actually a ruddy great cannon-ball on the end of a long bit of wire , and the thrower whisks it round and round his or her head faster and faster and then lets it go . |
| 17 | A long experience of management problems with a child , for instance , increased the chance that a crisis such as the child 's arrest for a criminal offence would provoke an episode of depression in the mother . |
| 18 | Most of this is in the northwest where there has been a long history of land-use , involving both degradation and successful reclamation . |
| 19 | The observation that despite increased stool frequency , stool weight was not greater in the patients is likely to reflect dietary changes , which inevitably occur in patients with a long history of diarrhoea . |
| 20 | Afghanistan has had a long history of neutrality and non-alignment which Soviet leaders have assiduously fostered . |
| 21 | Egypt is another example of a country which , like Pakistan and China , has a long history of irrigation , in this case in the Nile Valley ( section 3.4.2 ) beginning some 5 kyr BP . |
| 22 | Robert , a man in his late twenties with a long history of occult involvement , grew up in what he now knows to be one of the most haunted farmhouses in Lancashire on the Fylde coast . |
| 23 | Most , if not all , of the more seriously disadvantaged areas have experienced a long history of marginalisation and of dependence on distant or alien authorities . |
| 24 | She went on to catalogue a long history of disasters : from her mother dying when she was six years old , through to the latest traumas of seeing her cat killed by a car and being made redundant . |
| 25 | It was a fall down the cellar steps of one of these houses which started a long history of back trouble . |
| 26 | In the secondary sector they have a long history of influence as local employers . |
| 27 | Similarly , Pound and her colleagues ( 1985 ) found that a long history of depressive illness in a mother , or a combination of depression and personality problems , was associated with problems ( especially of sleeping ) in her children . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Start2 builds on a long history of arms accords and summits between Moscow and Washington . |
| 30 | 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 . |