Example sentences of "[noun sg] a long [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Through a gap a long wave of treetops stretched to the horizon , in the middle distance the smoke was coming and going in irregular bursts as they had seen it do once before from Ridgery Steep . |
| 2 | In Smolensk guberniia a long list of bridges , points , and crossings had been blown up in military action . |
| 3 | These cells have their origin a long distance from the sex organs . |
| 4 | If you do much watering by can a long way from a tap , get a matching pair , each holding 2 gallons . |
| 5 | We have also from his pen a long Dialogue with Trypho the Jew . |
| 6 | Charles was taking the job a long way from the safe arena of charitable patronage and ribbon-cutting and into politically dangerous areas , where constitutionally , he ought not to be . |
| 7 | In the pre-1965 period a long run of higher than average precipitation allowed the spread northward of rain-fed cultivation , dominated by millet , and at the same time the increased populations placed more pressure on the vegetation for fuelwood . |
| 8 | The choreographer can make an overall rhythm fur a long phrase of music and within it shorter phrases . |
| 9 | Waterford as highly encouraging — exploration between Kilmeaden and Kilmacthomas found primary gold traces of nearly two ounces per tonne — though this is of course a long way from a commercial proposition . |
| 10 | Arthur flew to London and stayed in the police morgue a long time with the body that he knew as closely as his own , thinking of Fred 's splendid good nature , his tough-mindedness , and his humour about the absurd and even the terrible . |
| 11 | It means they often have to fly the ball a long way in the air with very little run , depending , of course , on where the flag is . |
| 12 | It 's reasonably straightforward as a recording task ( discussed in the next chapter ) and it gives an ephemeral occasion a longer lease of life . |
| 13 | Finally I arrived at Ballinasloe , to find the station a long way from the town . |
| 14 | He put his horse and his dog a long way before his wife . ’ |
| 15 | There was throughout his life a long conflict between what may one may call a sort of scientific naturalism in his attitude to the world , and the impulse to hypostatize his ideals , to create out of his ideals erm ideal beings of some kind , and so to worship . |
| 16 | The priest completed his circuit and disappeared behind the altar screen , leaving in his wake a long trail of incense which gradually mounted into the roof and lost itself among the ostrich eggs and silver censers suspended there . |
| 17 | Nesting on a high ledge a long way above our tent were two lammergeirs — yellow-bellied vultures . |
| 18 | Once I catch a glimpse of the light of a car or maybe a tractor a long way up the valley , and this sees to make my isolation even more profound . |
| 19 | He cited as his favourite book a long novel about Lancashire and the cotton industry , which he referred to occasionally , but the great wealth of British literature was both unknown to him and something in which he clearly had no interest . |
| 20 | He also put on sale a long pamphlet of his own , National Socialism Now , to justify his secession from Mosley and the new course he had chosen . |
| 21 | There is in English a long tradition of Horatian poetics . |
| 22 | In Germany , where the authorities have wisely allocated digital phones a slot a long way from that used by their analogue brothers , there are other worries . |
| 23 | But 29-year-old Davey , who now lives in a lavish Florida mansion a long way from the two-up two-down terraced house he was brought up in , has no guarantees of success . |
| 24 | In France the Third Republic inherited from the old monarchy and the Second Empire a long tradition of such support for Catholic missions in the Near East and China and showed itself as willing as its predecessors to shoulder what it felt to be its obligations in this respect . |
| 25 | Are the present problems unusual or has the client a long history of similar difficulties ? |
| 26 | The moving mass of mainly Medau and Navy blue clad figures was a very encouraging sight to the hard working girls of the Kent Committee who had spend a long time before the event and on the day itself making sure all went according to plan . |