Example sentences of "[conj] a long [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Law as integrity is also a non-skeptical theory of legal rights : it holds that people have as legal rights whatever rights are sponsored by the principles that provide the best justification of legal practice as a whole Pragmatism , on the contrary , denies that people ever have legal rights ; it takes the bracing view that they are never entitled to what would otherwise be worse for the community just because some legislature said so or a long string of judges decided other people were . |
| 2 | Franz Dornseiff — a German scholar who proved his courage and independence in difficult times — tried hard to persuade us that it was in fact authentic Greek poetry of the sixth century B.C. He also tried to show that a long description of the Jews attributed by Photius to Hecataeus of Miletus was really composed by this late sixth-century writer , and not ( as is generally admitted ) by the younger Hecataeus of Abdera who lived after Alexander . |
| 3 | Similarly , Pound and her colleagues ( 1985 ) found that a long history of depressive illness in a mother , or a combination of depression and personality problems , was associated with problems ( especially of sleeping ) in her children . |
| 4 | For instance , there is evidence that a long history of failure in an important area of a person 's life makes them particularly vulnerable to depression in the context of a major loss or disappointment which could be interpreted as further evidence of their lack of competence . |
| 5 | He did not believe that a long period of purdah was necessary , and the general rule that such a record could not be published until thirty years after the event was indeed ridiculous , since it has been honoured only in the breach . |
| 6 | It sought a socialist majority in its own right , but most of its leaders believed that a long period of education and propaganda would be necessary before that majority could be secured . |
| 7 | With that kind of price tag , it is not surprising that a long string of American entrepreneurs — including even Thomas Jefferson — have tried to find a way to cultivate various Morchella species . |
| 8 | It can be seen that a long list of students ( or any other units ) could be used for a random sample by this means simply by numbering from beginning to end , and this could be done with an automatic increasing numbering stamp . |
| 9 | It recognized that a longer period of detention might also be required in a ‘ small minority ’ of cases concerned with ‘ grave offences ’ . |
| 10 | Much better than a long piece of string ! |
| 11 | If such a team is used the required man-hours can be optimised by using the Delphi method rather than a long series of group meetings . |
| 12 | Wide side decks and a long run of substantial grabrail on each side of the coachroof allow a secure passage to and from the foredeck . |
| 13 | By contrast , Parkhurst , with long-term high-security prisoners , a badly-sited chapel and a long tradition of low attendance , has between ten and twenty men at the Eucharist . |
| 14 | Not that he anticipated great trouble — most of the fell people were there to entertain themselves in ways which might appear rough and sound loud but came from characters largely tolerant , polite , gentle , qualities widely commented on , coming from the ease of great and graceful physical strength , the pacific , solitudinous nature of the daily lives , and a long experience of continuing community . |
| 15 | The Centre for Human Ecology , with its origins in the late C.H. Waddington 's ‘ School of the Man-Made Future ’ of the 1960s and a long history of promoting environmental awareness within the University , today finds itself at the hub of current ideology . |
| 16 | The west wing , where spacious living quarters should have been sited , consists of a bath-suite , dining room and kitchen , while the north wing has a large bath-suite and a long range of rooms , most of them quite small , all entered from a corridor . |
| 17 | In Andalusia , General Gonzalo Queipo de Llano occupied Seville on 18 July , while General Enrique Varela took the port of Cadiz and a long stretch of coast eastwards as far as Algeciras , close to Gibraltar . |
| 18 | In the end there was only one way of doing it and that was climbing up there with a match and a long piece of wire . |
| 19 | The spring should be cleaned before inserting it into the pipe and a long piece of string attached to the loop on the bending spring . |
| 20 | I am not thinking primarily of the well-established learned journals , which have high editorial standards and a long queue of articles waiting to appear . |
| 21 | There had been several local , peripheral wars in which Britain had been engaged , notably that in Korea in 1950–3 , and a long series of conflicts to resolve colonial problems — Malaya in the late 1940s , Kenya and Cyprus in the 1950s , Suez ( most traumatically ) in 1956 , Aden and Southern Arabia in the sixties . |
| 22 | But worries about psychologists ' neutrality continually resurface in the discipline , in a history which includes 1960s concerns with experimenter effects ; 1970s ethogeny ; a 1980s preoccupation with the social representations which psychologists as well as subjects draw on ; and a long list of attempts to replace living with automated experimenters , from written instructions , to computers . |
| 23 | The Coronary Prevention Group has produced a booklet , ‘ The Case Against Tobacco Advertising ’ , which ASH and a long list of eminent medical organisations endorsed and which has been sent to all MPs . |
| 24 | It is strictly PPR , and a long study of Pooley 's is recommended before starting your flight plan . |
| 25 | Audley senior was a minor baron , with lands in Gloucestershire as well as Oxfordshire and a long record of service to the Crown . |
| 26 | We sat on the hall floor , cross-legged , in our forms , with our form-mistress beside us , so as the Headmistress stood on the platform , she looked down upon a sea of faces , rows and rows of black-stockinged legs , and a long line of mistresses sitting on their chairs . |
| 27 | He succeeded two Roman popes and a long line of Italians . |
| 28 | The major social base of European racist movements such as the French National Front appears to be in the native working class , the major activists or such movements appear to be working-class young men — skinheads and the like — and a long era of full or virtually guaranteed employment ended , in western Europe during the 1970s , in central and eastern Europe at the end of the 1980s . |
| 29 | As the child became more demanding in a more unpleasant manner the mother would respond negatively until a long sequence of shouting and hitting would develop . |
| 30 | Our task was to persuade teachers that classroom discussion of linguistic terms could be stimulating and creative , even if a long account of children 's talk looked a little strange in an official Report directed to the Secretary of State . |