Example sentences of "[vb pp] a long [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of these types is the de Havilland Canada DHC-4 Caribou and over the years it has attracted a long list of very satisfied customers . |
| 2 | What was really said on that occasion is not on record but Wilberforce had just written a long review of Darwin 's book in the Quarterly Review and from this it seems clear that the good Bishop was by no means the fundamentalist reactionary which he is commonly supposed to have been . |
| 3 | The defendant dock company , a wholly owned subsidiary of a port authority , was granted a long lease of part of a disused naval dockyard and applied to the plaintiff local authority for planning permission to develop the land as a commercial port . |
| 4 | In Britain most children have already undergone a long period of conservative management at the hands of their general practitioners , often with trials of non-operative intervention using long term antibiotics . |
| 5 | Severiano Ballesteros might have endured a long summer of discontent , pointing to both mental and physical problems for his loss of form , but his absence from the leaderboards , conspicuous though it might have been , is consistent with the capricious nature of the sport . |
| 6 | Her eyes opened and she saw that he had tugged a long strand of hair free and was playing it between his fingers . |
| 7 | Mum always made a long list of groceries she needed but some days she bought even more things because there was so much to choose from . |
| 8 | This union has got a long history of , this union 's got a long history of amalgamations , some conducted more successfully than others . |
| 9 | This union has got a long history of , this union 's got a long history of amalgamations , some conducted more successfully than others . |
| 10 | You have had a long life of service and time to look back on it and if I did not know how your arthritis troubles you and with what difficulty you pen your kind notes I would ask you to help me in this . |
| 11 | This coolness arises in part from fear of the opponents , who have the laws on their side , and partly from the incredulity of men , who do not readily believe in new things until they have had a long experience of them . |
| 12 | France has had no super-communications ministry ; but it has had a long tradition of state control , planning and Jacobin centralism . |
| 13 | Visual art education has had a long tradition of emphasizing the practical , so it was not surprising to find similar sentiments being expressed by the visual art teachers interviewed . |
| 14 | I have had a long history of muscular trouble , of a weak back . |
| 15 | Afghanistan has had a long history of neutrality and non-alignment which Soviet leaders have assiduously fostered . |
| 16 | Wigan chairman Jack Robinson said : ‘ We have had a long period of success under a lot of good coaches and we are confident John can do a great job for us . ’ |
| 17 | Northwich-Winsford in mid-Cheshire has had a long record of stable employment provided by companies like ICI and Foden . |
| 18 | Later excavations have shown a long sequence of development from a late Saxon farm or manorial complex with two phases of churches , to a medieval manor house . |
| 19 | Addition : Suppose you are given a long column of figures to add . |
| 20 | My mate and I had been given a long list of names , of Bulawayo people we should meet . |
| 21 | ‘ We were given a long account of tritium generation at Mount Mauna Loa and all that and then ‘ by the way here is the neutron spectrum ’ . |
| 22 | To conclude that the potential for peasant revolution against the status quo remained undiminished in the decade after 1905 does not of course , dispose of the liberal contention that given a longer period of peaceful development the prospects would have changed . |
| 23 | ( S. ) 335 recognise the exception illustrated by this decision : if the offence to which the juvenile has pleaded guilty is punishable with 14 years ' imprisonment and is therefore one for which the juvenile can be detained under Children and Young Persons Act 1933 , s.53(2) for a longer period , a sentence of 12 months ' detention in a young offender institution is not objectionable , despite the plea of guilty , if the offence would have justified a longer term of detention under section 53(2) and the sentencer has given the juvenile a discount for his plea by choosing to impose a term of detention in a young offender institution rather than detention under Children and Young Persons Act 1933 , s.53(2) . |
| 24 | Either way , the outcome is a marked legacy in the economic landscape , representing today the ‘ continuing influence of Britain 's historical international position ’ ( Massey , 1986 ) : by the time of the 1930s depression , some of the greatest industrial regions of Britain , the specialist production regions of textiles , steel , ships and coal exports , with their ports , had already entered a long period of continuous decline . |
| 25 | Most , if not all , of the more seriously disadvantaged areas have experienced a long history of marginalisation and of dependence on distant or alien authorities . |
| 26 | It was agreed this was not easy to do and it illustrated that deciding whether pupils had attained a long list of criteria would be a very considerable task . |
| 27 | This has created a long period of uncertainty , but in fact it now appears that they do not grant core funding ( and inside information indicates that the NCC element is the dominant one ) . |
| 28 | She wore a dark grey hat taken from the store on her last day as owner , and that was 17 years ago , and a plain grey scarf round her throat , and leather gloves that had stood a long test of time . |
| 29 | Few people are aware that he also pioneered a long line of excursion steamers on the Forth starting in 1813 . |