Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] a long [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The EVA wedge at the heel gives good shock absorption , but I wish it travelled the whole length of the boot as I find the balls of my feet get sore after a long day on the hill . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | But I 'd been careful for a long time before that , because I 'd sensed something . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | If her hurried attempt to close it was a betrayal then it was only another in a long line of mistakes . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | For environmental health officer John Waite , it 's just another in a long list of complaints about noise . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 10 | It is only extinguished or " barred " because the claim it gives to land has been allowed to remain unpressed for a long time in face of a rival title … the effect of the Act is to eliminate . |
| 11 | This is noticeable after a long soak in the bath ; the pads of your fingertips will take on a wrinkled appearance . |
| 12 | All wear the same type of loose shroud , a garment similar to a long nightshirt with draw-strings at the neck and wrists and a cuff deep enough to cover the hand while leaving the fingers exposed . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | We can also note that the relating of the artistic to the existential is characteristic of a long line of German writers . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Many of the classic economic and social indicators of fertility decline had been present for a long time in nineteenth-century Britain . |
| 17 | I was very unhappy for a long time after that . |
| 18 | " It is a woman you will be then , Sara Hussey , " she whispered to herself , and lay awake for a long time after , watching a narrow strip of moonlight creep slowly across the wall . |
| 19 | They are extremely strange looking fish that are about 8″ long with a long beak like protrusion of about 4″ long and they are black in colour . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | As the Soviets became involved in a long struggle with Afghan guerrillas , similar in some respects to America 's involvement in Vietnam , Carter began to take punitive measures against Moscow but without fully consulting his NATO allies . |
| 22 | He first meets Pistol , that illegitimate verse-speaker , in a bizarre confrontation ( Henry V , IV.i.35–63 ) , but then becomes involved in a long discussion with soldiers Williams and Bates on the rights and wrongs of war , and the responsibility of the ruler for the death of his people . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Towards the end of his life he told Osbert Sitwell ; ‘ Any talent I may have was due to a long illness as a boy , which afforded me time to think , and subsequent ill-health , because I was not allowed to play games , and so had to teach myself , for my enjoyment , to use my eyes instead of my feet . ’ |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | It had been a dry summer but the pool was full and the young people , many of them travel-stained after a long trek from Portofino , were lying in steaming baths , their toes poised to activate the gilded taps . |
| 27 | He gestured towards the first of a long row of recuperation pods , where Christine LaFayette 's face was visible through a clear plastic window . |
| 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 . |