Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [art] long [noun] of " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | We 're all called to understand ourselves , and to do this it 's necessary that we should understand one another , and this is only possible after a long while of living together . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | If her hurried attempt to close it was a betrayal then it was only another in a long line of mistakes . |
| 4 | He is yet another in a long line of Scottish internationalists whose generous gifts on the park were matched by an outrageous streak when they went out to play in the recreational sense . |
| 5 | For environmental health officer John Waite , it 's just another in a long list of complaints about noise . |
| 6 | Michael Meacher , Labour 's employment spokesman , last night said : ‘ The formula is not just another in the long line of bureaucratic barriers which prevent the unemployed claiming benefit . |
| 7 | J. Stannard , Recent Developments in Criminal Law , SLS , 1988 , 59 , averred : " Bevan is another in the long line of cases where courts have adopted a strained construction of legislation in order to convict a person who is clearly guilty of dishonest conduct but also does not appear to be adequately covered by any legislative provision . " |
| 8 | My right hon. and learned Friend the Member for Edinburgh , Pentlands ( Mr. Rifkind ) has made it unequivocally clear over a long period of years that he is wholly opposed to unilateral devolution , which is what the Bill proposes . |
| 9 | Lawrence James 's The Iron Duke adds yet another to the long list of books written by various authors about the 1st Duke over the last 150 years or so . |
| 10 | The name Alnasr Alwasheek somehow just does n't roll off the tongue like that of a 2,000 Guineas winner and would rank high among a long list of awkward names of Arab-owned horses . |
| 11 | Andrew , is there a feature in this plan called waiver of premium , what these means to you is that if you 're off ill for a long period of time , through accident , ill-health , whatever , Abbey will actually still pay them for you , until you 're well again . |
| 12 | We can also note that the relating of the artistic to the existential is characteristic of a long line of German writers . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Oct-11a is located in a region of mouse chromosome 9 homologous with the long arm of human chromosome 11 . |
| 15 | He was born Lothar dei Conti of Segni in 1160 or 1161 during the long reign of Pope Alexander III . |
| 16 | Even the rain was supposed to be radio-active after the long series of 1954–5 tests . |
| 17 | There are no pneumatic cavities in the presacral vertebrae , as often occurs among saurischians , but all of the long bones of the skeleton are strongly hollowed as in theropods . |
| 18 | Almost to a man and woman they are , as it happens , extremely sophisticated individuals , many with a long experience of political activity outside Parliament and several with long-held and well-thought-out anxieties about the course which events were taking in Europe . |
| 19 | But this had been an attempt to land on the Spanish Main , and the Spanish felt much less concerned about the long string of small islands in the Lesser Antilles at the eastern end of the Caribbean . |
| 20 | Which of you is responsible for the long periods of separation , or are they merely dictated by your careers ? ’ |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | So if y if the chemicals will do that over a long period of time to rubber , think what it would do to your skin . |
| 23 | In the heat of the afternoon , both armies lay quiet , somnolent after the long hours of nervous exertion and the effects of the warmth and the food . |
| 24 | He gestured towards the first of a long row of recuperation pods , where Christine LaFayette 's face was visible through a clear plastic window . |
| 25 | Hervey , a Breton , was appointed bishop , the first of a long series of members of the English royal court to be provided with a Welsh see : he was also the first bishop in Wales to come under the authority of an English archbishop . |
| 26 | One of the first of a long series of attempts to reconstruct the facts behind the records was undertaken by Hermann Samuel Reimarus ( 1694 — 1768 ) in his Apology for the Reasonable Worshippers of God . |
| 27 | The Director-General of RTF was appointed by the government ( as were the heads of state or public service radio and TV until 1982 ) : the ‘ DG ’ appointed in 1946 , Vladimir Porche , held his post for 11 years ; but governments conceived of broadcasting as a state administration , and Porche himself — a ‘ counseiller d'etat ’ — was the first of a long series of ‘ counseillers d'etat ’ , prefects and top civil servants to head the state broadcasting organizations , RTF and ORTF ( i.e. until 1974 ) . |
| 28 | He is the first of a long line of distinguished French portrait sculptors . |
| 29 | Mike Gatting , first of a long line of England captains in 1988 . |
| 30 | In vitro fertilisation is only the first of a long line of reproductive technologies which may be developed in the future . |