Example sentences of "part [prep] a long " in BNC.
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1 | She had been part of a long stream of women who had come and gone swiftly , lives collapsing in one area as they gained power and certainty in another . |
2 | Most of the fields are still part of a long rotation based on grass , cereals and a conservation ley with Italian red clover . |
3 | Rose ( 1868 ) , do not obviously suggest serious historical study , but are rather part of a long series of more popular works on Mary , in which Jean Plaidy and Madeleine Bingham are among the most recent exponents ; and there is a certain charm about the publication , in 1793 , of a work by one J. F. Gaum , Marie Stuart und Marie Antoinette in der Underwelt . |
4 | Like all the plans I will suggest , it is not imaginary ; this is part of a long , north-east facing border in my own garden . |
5 | However , the preoccupation with violence and lawlessness is part of a long and continuous tradition , rather than a new and unique phenomenon . |
6 | As part of a long term study of child development these workers assessed 954 seven-year-olds of an original sample of 1037 children born between 1 April , 1972 and 31 March , 1973 in the city of Dunedin , New Zealand . |
7 | Henry II spent a large part of a long career campaigning in France ; but his wars added very little to what he had gained by marriage . |
8 | These elements were part of a long and complex history of German restlessness and Polish insecurity — ideas that the British , French and Americans , secure in thoroughly different kinds of national , linguistic and cultural identities , could not even begin to chart . |
9 | Such thinking is part of a long tradition , finding its most clear formulation in the political philosophy of Hobbes where human society is presented as being in a state of ‘ warre ’ in which every man fights every other man for control of resources and for the ( presumed ) pleasure of dominance . |
10 | Tamayo 's insistence on using new materials to construct his prints is very much part of a long tradition in modern art . |
11 | A. G. Dickens , in particular , has consistently maintained that the anti-clerical tracts of lawyers such as Simon Fish and Christopher St German were not merely isolated examples of lay hostility to the church , totally unrepresentative of public opinion , but on the contrary part of a long tradition of anti-clericalism among the literate classes , and most especially London merchants , common lawyers , parliamentarians , and royal officials . |
12 | Two thousand miles to the east of St Petersburg , the boxcar was part of a long train that had started out in St Petersburg a week earlier and had gone along the Trans-Siberian Railway . |
13 | In his influential Le Même et l'autre Vincent Descombes has described the entire history of twentieth-century philosophy in France as a succession of moves which attempt to get out of this Hegelian dialectic : the recent phenomenon of poststructuralism is part of a long philosophical story and distinguished only by what appears to be a certain success , or at least an avoidance of failure to the extent that it has at least managed to keep the game with Hegel in play . |
14 | For Brazil , which had been the US 's chief Latin American ally among surrounding neutrals in World War II , the decline of the bipolar alliance system has been part of a long , slow process of growing mutual disenchantment . |
15 | This is particularly true of regulations in heavily regulated fields such as agriculture , where they may be part of a long string of related measures or be limited to implementing a regulation of broader scope . |
16 | The other , even more revealing letter , was written early in 1945 , after Walter had spent part of a long leave with Viola and the children ( now alone , with divorce a matter of months away ) in their London flat . |
17 | And even her clothes , once you had got over the original shock , were part of a long tradition of home-made outfits dating back to her days at the Mother Theresa Convent , South Wimbledon . |
18 | Those parts of the drying system recently installed will be retained with the new sections being added as part of a long term policy of improvements . |
19 | In terms of pupils development , a database should be seen as an integral part of an assignment and part of a long term , cross-curricular development of information skills . |
20 | Drugs were also seized and police say it was part of a long term campaign , codenamed Operation Lucy and targeted on a guns and drug network . |
21 | The line was once part of a longer route that ran to Sheffield , using the Woodhead tunnel under the Pennines . |
22 | Gone are the days when you were likely to be alone on the rim path , but if the five miles escarpment is included as part of a longer circuit of the vast moorland , walkers seeking solitude will find their fair share — and a good test of their navigation skills . |
23 | My childhood was the place where , for my mother , the fairy tales failed , and through the glass of that childhood I now see that failure as part of a longer and more enduring one . |
24 | Here it forms part of a longer account of man 's history from his creation , as in Genesis . |
25 | She felt work with women was indispensable , not only for the trade union movement but as part of a longer educational process which would enable women to participate fully after the triumph of the FDR-FMLN . |
26 | This passage is part of a longer passage cited with approval by Lord Keith of Kinkel , Lord Griffiths and Lord Goff of Chieveley in Attorney-General v. Guardian Newspapers Ltd . |
27 | The passages were constructed so that they contained a target clause which in one version of a passage formed a sentence on its own and in another version was part of a longer sentence . |
28 | For example , the third clause in the following extract ( a ) is part of a longer sentence : ( 1 ) The tone of the document was threatening . |
29 | It must be stressed that these examples refer in some cases to complete pieces of music , in others to themes which form only part of a longer movement . |
30 | as part of a longer term review of legal aid policy , to pay modest sums to firms who allow their trainees and young solicitors to undertake the more straightforward cases now undertaken on legal aid . |