Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] a long [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 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 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | We can also note that the relating of the artistic to the existential is characteristic of a long line of German writers . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | He gestured towards the first of a long row of recuperation pods , where Christine LaFayette 's face was visible through a clear plastic window . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 ) . |
| 18 | He is the first of a long line of distinguished French portrait sculptors . |
| 19 | Mike Gatting , first of a long line of England captains in 1988 . |
| 20 | In vitro fertilisation is only the first of a long line of reproductive technologies which may be developed in the future . |
| 21 | Phil was the first of a long list of people to tackle this challenge — abseiling down the 170 feet of the electrical engineering tower . |
| 22 | But in 1984 , Arthur succumbed to an obscure lung complaint that almost killed him , the first of a long list of lay-offs throughout his career . |
| 23 | Palafox and Romana are thus the first of a long succession of generals who claimed that the army officers embodied the general will of the nation , perverted by a selfish clique of unpopular politicians . |
| 24 | At least , this was the opinion of Dugdale , writing a hundred years later ; but it should be remembered that he was one of a long line of propagandists for land drainage , and that , while localized deterioration must have taken place , there is also ample evidence of the activities of the courts of sewers and of individual enterprise by secular landlords . |
| 25 | Adams ' report , one of a long line of studies , expert groups , advisory committees and internal and external task forces that have looked at Super-SARA , declared that the project was still viable if it got an immediate go-ahead . |
| 26 | Dustin was one of a long line of candidates being screen-tested in a ten-minute scene with Katharine Ross . |
| 27 | Designed by Sydney Camm , the Hunter was one of a long line of successful fighting aircraft from the Hawker stable . |
| 28 | One of a long list of commandments , much more extensive than the original ten , that had circumscribed the exploits of Preston 's youth . |
| 29 | They may be hoping to enlist the support of Mrs Thatcher , one of a long list of famous old girls . |
| 30 | It 's one of a long list of endangered species in a 2 hour Central Documentary tonight . |