Example sentences of "in a long line [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This Glasgow Hamlet is the latest in a long line of impersonations , and his soliloquies are the novel he inhabits , or most of it . |
| 2 | Latest in a long line of internal frame alpine packs from Lowe , the Alpamayo has an easy-to-use stepless and lockable Wedge Adjustment back systems which makes achieving a good fit simple . |
| 3 | Yet climbers appear willing to put an inordinate amount of faith in a long line of brass nuts and then show surprise when they pull like a hot knife through butter . |
| 4 | It might be argued that historically the Maronite Christians have done much to bring this near calamity on themselves , that Gen Aoun is only the latest , probably the last , in a long line of revolts against an Arab and Mulsim environment to which this most stiff-necked of Arab minorities refuses to adapt itself . |
| 5 | The District Court in Topeka , Kansas , fined James and Linda Newton $75,000 for spreading false and malicious statements associating Procter & Gamble with satanism , one more in a long line of lawsuits the company has filed . |
| 6 | Missing the April 1 deadline was the latest in a long line of opportunities wasted and challenges deferred . |
| 7 | This became the first in a long line of medieval whodunnits featuring an unusual detective , a 12th-century Benedictine monk named Brother Cadfael : when he is n't tending his herb garden , Cadfael is using his knowledge to solve a seemingly endless series of murders and mysterious disappearances . |
| 8 | With hindsight , of course , it is now possible to question the glamorizing of drug-taking in such films as Easy Rider , Psych-Out and The Trip and others ; the in-built health warnings were seldom noticed and there was a certain drugs bandwagon rolling , anyway , largely created in the pop industry where drug usage was not only referred to , even poetically eulogized in song , but physically demonstrated by some of its more tragic exponents like Brian Jones , Jimi Hendrix and Janice Joplin , to name but three in a long line of fallen idols and heroes . |
| 9 | The final touch to the forward line came with seventeen-year-old Cliff Bastin , costing £2,000 from Exeter City , who was to be the last in a long line of Chapman discoveries that began with Fanny Walden twenty years before . |
| 10 | Nicholas was only one in a long line of young Scots including the 16 year old Spurs player Graeme Souness who found London to be a lively but ultimately lonely city . |
| 11 | The human growth hormone is the next in a long line of chemicals to be manufactured industrially , using recombinant-DNA techniques . |
| 12 | His latest in a long line of thrillers , As the Crow Flies ( Hodder and Stoughton , £14.99 ) , is published this month . |
| 13 | Charlemagne was succeeded in 814 by his son Louis the Pious ( Louis I of France ) , the first in a long line of French kings to be crowned at Reims . |
| 14 | Clint has just met one of The Boys , the latest in a long line of piss-poor pre-pubescent Motown acts that the company hopes will be the new Jacksons . |
| 15 | It was to be the first in a long line of pay battles that would give her a reputation for being one of the toughest negotiators in the business . |
| 16 | The Escale , the latest in a long line of successful and stylish models from Prout Catamarans , incorporates the latest thinking in hull , keel and rig designs . |
| 17 | PAUL Rideout goes into a Sky TV shoot-out with Graeme Sharp at Boundary Park tomorrow , anxious to prove he can be the latest in a long line of great Everton centre-forwards . |
| 18 | Area technical maintenance manager Pete Wootton , 32 , revealed that the wage drop was just the latest generous gesture in a long line of good turns . |
| 19 | ‘ The Wig ’ , available in , believe it or not , a ‘ Syrup Mix ’ ( Wig — syrup of figs — Non-Cockney Ed ) as well as a straightforward ragga version and an appealing ‘ Chaos Mix ’ , is the latest in a long line of sizzlers ( ‘ Heat ’ , ‘ Dem No Wicked Like Me ’ , ‘ Breeze ’ etc ) from General Levy , who is probably Britain 's best reggae-rapper . |
| 20 | A group of works by contemporaries , often friends collected by an enthusiastic and discerning individual is always appealing and ken Powell takes a deserved place in a long line of such patrons . |
| 21 | Cover Girl Poker ) or should that be poke her ? ) is the latest in a long line of attempted trouser-arousers to appear on the C64 . |
| 22 | Either way , it seemed to be the latest in a long line of crass decisions . |
| 23 | The Dzhungar state , the last in a long line of typical steppe nomad conglomerates descended from Genghis Khan 's empire , also claimed the more southerly zone where lay the headwaters of the Ob-Irtysh river system . |
| 24 | The Red Sea came into view in the late afternoon , an intense blue that washed along the flat desert shore in a long line of white . |
| 25 | Marina Shipping Ltd v. Laughton ( 1982 ) was one in a long line of cases arising out of attempts by the International Transport Workers Federation ( ITF ) to force ship owners employing cheap labour recruited abroad to pay European standard rates of wages . |
| 26 | He was the latest in a long line of seasoned golfers to contract the yips and as a direct result slumped to 51st place on the Order of Merit . |
| 27 | But I do n't love him ; I never have — he was just one in a long line of convenient , undemanding escorts I chose because they did n't threaten my independence … ’ |
| 28 | This last-minute change of dates is only the latest in a long line of difficulties we 've had to overcome . ’ |
| 29 | She could n't bear that — could n't stand to become just another in a long line of faceless women whose names he probably could n't even remember . |
| 30 | She kept trying to tell herself that his was just another face in a long line of faces , but the nearness of him was agonising , and she was forced to face up to a bitter realisation . |