Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] a long [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Old Frank Buchman , who kept on this course through a long life of battle , used to tell me . |
| 2 | Having taught English Literature for a long time in universities , on both sides of the Atlantic , and having spent some years pondering the questions raised in this book , I have come to some very tentative conclusions about what might be done ; they are not , I might add , of the kind I thought I would come to when I began working on it . |
| 3 | He must have saved up his pocket money for a long time in order to buy one of Uncle Philip 's masks . |
| 4 | The upward spiral on which film budgets were set suggests that Rank might have had to go on losing money for a long time before hitting on a way to achieve a steady supply of sellable films . |
| 5 | Similarly , events arising out of long-standing difficulties would increase risk of depression : where , for instance , a husband left home after years of arguing and discord ; a child was arrested for burglary after a long history of behavioural problems at home and school ; or a substantial fine was incurred after a long period of extreme financial difficulty ( Brown et al. , 1987 ) . |
| 6 | Love and pride shone from her enormous black eyes as , ever tender , she lifted her grandson and held him against her grubby sweater for a long moment before returning him to his crib . |
| 7 | We are all somewhat the worse for wear after a long night in the hotel bar . |
| 8 | Consequently many Greek writers of the fifth century and later realized that their own society was the end-product of a long period of advance . |
| 9 | The incorporation of a long passage from a Board of Education memo on evening schools indicates that the Committee feels itself to be in consonance with the Board " s thinking , not only on the inadequacies of vocational education , but also on the value of English as a force for cultural nationalization . |
| 10 | The funeral , attended by President Turgut Özal , was the result of a long campaign for the rehabilitation of Menderes , led by the ruling Motherland Party and the opposition True Path Party . |
| 11 | In the Netherlands , as a result of a long history of legislative enactment in socio-economic affairs and close involvement of unions and employers with government in this area the two national employers ' confederations ( denominational and non-denominational ) also carry somewhat greater weight than their member associations . |
| 12 | In reality , of course , they are the result of a long chain of conscious decision making . |
| 13 | In any case , a study of neolithic Early Minoan buildings very strongly implies that the temples were not an implant but the result of a long period of indigenous development . |
| 14 | By then the ethnic composition of its native population was multifarious and complex , being the result of a long period of prehistoric development . |
| 15 | It is a result of a long process of appraisal which is influenced by self evaluation as well as evaluation by others . |
| 16 | Professor John in a seminal article stressed the great importance of the coincidence of a modest rate of population growth , putting no general pressure on a food supply expanded by a generation of agricultural improvement , with the bounty of a long period of good harvests . |
| 17 | The objections to the use of the term case management has resulted in the abandonment of a term with a long history of service use , evaluation and exploration , and the substitution of one with few if any empirical referents at all . |
| 18 | Just when the hero really needs the girl 's help , she stands revealed as a killer with a long history of leading enslaved men to destruction , a siren wrapped in furs and degeneracy , venom in her veins , murder in her mind … |
| 19 | The case was the latest episode in a long history of antagonism between the government and the Far Eastern Economic Review , the circulation of which had been severely restricted in Singapore . |
| 20 | Here it grates more than usually , despite British voices in the mix : the unmistakable tones of Maggie Smith ; Bob Hoskins taking a break from a long run of phoney American accents to play a cockney Smee . |
| 21 | Here it grates more than usually , despite British voices in the mix : the unmistakable tones of Maggie Smith ; Bob Hoskins taking a break from a long run of phoney American accents to play a cockney Smee . |
| 22 | Its purely endogenous nature is well illustrated by the facts that it can be evoked by the absence of a stimulus such as a gap in a long sequence of evenly spaced tones and that the actual probability and significance of the stimulus is less important in determining whether or not the P300 will occur than the subject 's perception of its probability and significance . |
| 23 | This point is discussed further at p104. 5 Defences 5.1 Iniquity In a long line of cases the courts have held that the disclosure of information relating to what was originally termed iniquity will not be restrained : see Gartside v Outram ( 1856 ) 2 LJ Ch 113 , Weld-Blundell v Stephens [ 1920 ] AC 956 ; Initial Services Ltd v Putterill [ 1968 ] 1 QB 396 ; Fraser v Evans [ 1969 ] 1 QB 349 ; Hubbard v Vosper [ 1972 ] 1 All ER 1023 ; Church of Scientology of California v Kaufman [ 1973 ] RPC 635 ; British Steel Corporation v Granada Television Ltd [ 1981 ] 1 All ER 417 ; and Lion Laboratories Ltd v Evans [ 1984 ] 2 All ER 417 . |
| 24 | The buses and coaches which had brought the marchers into town were parked opposite the entrance in a long line down the road . |
| 25 | So , short of sending the recording tape on a long detour through the corridors of the Palace of Westminster before it goes on the air , the parliamentary censors will have to work faster than they think . |
| 26 | Some houses at the bottom of Killicomaine Road still pay ground rent on a long lease to the church , through the Trust Steward . |
| 27 | CHARLES and Diana 's separation sets the seal on a long line of Windsor marital disasters . |
| 28 | All that now remains is a single tower , a poor monument to a long history of noble residences on the site . |
| 29 | If this analysis is accepted , then it is clear that the attempt over a long period of time to protect the position of those living in privately rented accommodation has failed and has , in fact , made the position worse . |
| 30 | The A.87 now crosses the loch on a long causeway with a warning of high winds , but even in calm weather the former road continuing up the valley to round the head of the loch , at the cost of two extra miles , is to be preferred . |