Example sentences of "[prep] a long [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE Bradford Catholic Players are saddened by the death after a long illness of past President and Life Vice President Clare Illingworth . |
| 2 | After a long while of keeping the pendant hidden and unlooked at in his sock drawer , Thomas had to bring himself to hunt for someone to buy it back , for he could n't afford both presents . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | After a long while of silence he unlocked his arms from her . |
| 5 | Here the sales staff glided about with languid grace more reminiscent of Paris than New York , the house models managed to look like elegant advertisements for Varna even after a long session of standing stock still while a toile was pinned and draped and adjusted around them , and even when a rail of sample clothes had to be wheeled across the hallowed expanse of green , carefully hidden inside grey and black sample bags to make sure they were safe from the photographic eye of a fashion spy , it was managed with what Hugo referred to as ‘ panache ’ . |
| 6 | Luis was helping us clean the Plaster Room after a long session of plastering . |
| 7 | After a long session of testing , Alex became increasingly crotchety and unco-operative and , in one marvellous sequence captured on video-tape , after a tiring day at the office the parrot says : ‘ I 'm going to go away ’ . |
| 8 | ‘ But after a long deliberation of all the circumstances , the Board agreed to sanction the contest on the conditions laid down . ’ |
| 9 | He stood watching beside the flower-beds ; and after a long minute of uninterrupted work , Orrie straightened his long , athlete 's back again , and turned towards his audience the massive , stony beauty of his face , flushed with exertion . |
| 10 | Similarly , I was once asked by an Anglican leader after a long description of the birth , struggle and then growth and conversions in our new community church , ‘ Yes but , when you celebrate the Eucharist : what do you wear ? ’ |
| 11 | After a long day of wiping her son 's eyes , arse and office floors , mummy was often too exhausted to continue the struggle . |
| 12 | After a long day of presentations , the angels and the businessmen finally get together in the traditional way . |
| 13 | I tell you , after a long life of many escapes , many dramas which might have been tragedies , what I want and would value most is to be free to choose as much of my life as is given to me — to live it by my own lights , Mary , to do , insofar as God wills it , what I want to do to the very hilt and limit . ’ |
| 14 | Nothing is known as to what has happened in Switzerland , but it does appear that in the United States , after a long course of litigation , the attempts have failed . |
| 15 | 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 ) . |
| 16 | The secretary of the planning committee that examined the project was an MI6 officer called George Blake who had recently returned to England after a long spell of captivity in Korea . |
| 17 | But when he returned to the ministry in 1913 , after a long spell of service in Rome , a great deal had changed . |
| 18 | His reappearance after a long night of uncertainty prompted scenes of rejoicing among Palestinians around the Middle East . |
| 19 | After a long night of much study and little real sleep , he had to partake of breakfast with little appetite , really too tired to eat . |
| 20 | He was apparently found to be running a temperature , but after a long season of competing in the best company , he may be past his best . |
| 21 | Even the greatest of God 's servants , after a long lifetime of trust and obedience , can fall . |
| 22 | After a long period of deliberation , during which Craganour 's owner Charles Bower Ismay was seen to become ever more pale , the official announcement was given : the race went to Aboyeur . |
| 23 | To give judgment upon these presentments , the ancient machinery of the Forest Eyre was once more set in motion after a long period of general disuse . |
| 24 | What distinguishes the companies still with us after a long period of recession is that they are lucky — they do not seem to have been hit by the unexpected . |
| 25 | It is only after a long period of counselling that she has at last realised that she has to drop her charge against her father , and to forgive him for not being the person that she longed he should be . |
| 26 | 1976 ) , is being revived after a long period of disrepute . |
| 27 | After a long period of such government , an accumulation of demands for reform may build up , creating the possibility of a crisis based on unrealizable expectations . |
| 28 | On the other side is the organised working class : by the end of the 1960s , after a long period of relatively full employment , the trade unions were in a strong position both in terms of wage bargaining and in terms of the defensive ‘ veto power ’ which they were able to exercise over changes at the point of production seen as threatening workers ' interests . |
| 29 | It said ‘ Many of the smaller hard drives available , especially old ones , use Stepper Motor actuators and it is these that really require that a low level format be carried out on them at least once a year , as after a long period of heating and cooling it is more than possible that the heads are out of alignment with the tracks . |
| 30 | Two years of stability after a long period of severe hyperinflation have meant that Argentine publishing has begun to show some solidly healthy results . |