Example sentences of "[noun] [vb -s] a long [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alba Adriatica has a long beach of fine , golden sand where holiday life is taken at a relaxed unhurried pace . |
| 2 | The dose equivalence over 24 hours is more difficult to estimate but since salmeterol has a longer duration of action salmeterol 50 µg twice daily may be equivalent to salbutamol 500 µg four to six hourly . |
| 3 | The convent has a long tradition of illustrating cards and books with delicate hand-crafted watercolours and inscriptions . |
| 4 | Literature has a long history of feminist interest , but film and media studies are certainly as central to feminist cultural debates . |
| 5 | It is possibly true of ‘ Bonn ’ : Germany has a long tradition of unease about England which has been kept alive.and well in influential papers such as Die Zeit and elsewhere . |
| 6 | Labour has a long list of priorities : a £3 billion pledge on pensions — presumably health comes after that ; health presumably comes after Labour 's £1 billion recovery programme and it presumably comes after Labour 's £8 billion housing pledge . |
| 7 | The Social Work Department has a long tradition of working in collaboration with other service providers . |
| 8 | Established in 1912 , Olympus has a long tradition of good design , using the finest materials and quality craftsmanship . |
| 9 | Glendenning follows a long trail of Darlington players who have gone to Rovers , but he is unable to force his way into the first team . |
| 10 | The Queen heads a long list of lenders of the more than 700 objects in the exhibition . |
| 11 | Scotland has a long tradition of exporting its talents . |
| 12 | Peter Settelen has a long list of television credits to his name , appearing in Crown Court and Z-Cars . |
| 13 | North Shields has a long history of democratic local government and is currently under the political control of the most left-wing Labour authority in the North East . |
| 14 | Prague has a long history of defenestrations and in 1948 Jan Masaryk , the foreign minister , the founding president 's son and one of only three non-communist ministers in the government , was found dead , having apparently exited from his office window . |
| 15 | Large and secretive , this wrasse has a long body of up to 45 centimetres . |
| 16 | As everywhere else in the world , changing these attitudes requires a long campaign of education . |
| 17 | Ulster has a long tradition of rural industry and peasant agriculture . |
| 18 | The CAB has a long history of mobilising professionals such as lawyers , accountants and surveyors , to advise clients on a voluntary basis but there are very few lawyers who specialise in welfare benefits or money advice . |
| 19 | ‘ China has a long history of cuisine , a vast territory and abundant natural resources , many nationalities and a large population that has many regions and local diets and customs , ’ he explains , adding that Chinese chefs tended to create new dishes daily , as each cooking method , each style and the range of ingredients could be used to make up different combinations — traditional menus contained a minimum of 100 dishes named after methods . |
| 20 | The result is that shops use a work-in-process inventory to buffer themselves against problems and uncertainties , a situation where each station has a long queue of semifinished elements . |
| 21 | As outlined earlier , low temperatures past and present are also indicated by the evidence that the Moon has a long history of outer rigidity . |
| 22 | During a lawsuit brought by environmental groups against NMFS to compel observer coverage of the total US tuna fleet , the legal counsel for Earth Island Institute and the Marine Mammal Fund stated : ‘ The National Marine Fisheries Service has a long history of ignoring the will of Congress and working closely with the fishing industry . |
| 23 | It will also show this combination when a person reads a single sentence and when a person reads a long passage of prose . |
| 24 | But despite the fact that it seems inhospitable , Dartmoor has a long history of use by humans . |
| 25 | The LGC has a long tradition of providing support services and policy advice to the government . |
| 26 | It was pointed out that contrary to the rose-tinted spectacles view , Britain has a long history of riot and disorder . |
| 27 | Rejoicing in the subtle name of Got ta Bite , the substance joins a long list of similar ‘ Snake Oil ’ fishing aids from the USA . |
| 28 | Bourgeois individualism has a long history of subversive bohemian variants ; and the struggle for control of the elements of counter cultural musical style was a struggle between different aspects of the same principle . |
| 29 | The valley has a long history of fact and legend , and age has mellowed its few buildings . |
| 30 | But the ruler who likes to be driven around in a sinister black Range Rover with dark tinted windows casts a long shadow of fear . |