Example sentences of "be a long [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although there had been a long established tradition of community and private forestry schemes , it was not until the launching of the Saemol Undong ( or New Community Movement ) in 1970 that it was possible to conceive of a nation-wide forestry policy and programme . |
| 2 | I was sitting next to Professor St John Goth , who 's a long established member of the Circle , and often lectures at our meetings . |
| 3 | It is a long established rule of law that where a contracting party refuses to perform his contractual obligations by giving a wrong reason , this does not subsequently deprive him of a justification which in fact existed at the time of refusal ( see Taylor v Oakes ( 1922 ) 27 Com Cas 261 ; Braithwaite v Foreign Hardwood Co Ltd [ 1905 ] 2 KB 543 ; and Fercometal SARL v Mediterranean Shipping Co SA [ 1989 ] AC 788 discussed in Chapter 15 ) . |
| 4 | It was a long sharp fragment of a willow-pattern saucer , three little blue figures crossing the hump-backed bridge . |
| 5 | I looked , and there to the north-west , between the sea and the sky , was a long thin piece of land . |