Example sentences of "[is] a long [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | So the main reason , that 's just sorry it 's a long way of getting to it sir but , the main change in circumstance that the county is putting forward since nineteen eighty compared with today is that agricultural policy means that more farmland is being diversified and they feel the need at county level to have a sweep-up policy to control that process . |
| 2 | There 's a long bit of ash on the end of her fag , and when she talks it falls off onto the chickens . |
| 3 | ‘ There 's a long list of equipment here , ’ Ruth pointed out . |
| 4 | And then er , there 's a long line of changing jobs and eventually I came to Dudley . |
| 5 | It 's it 's a long stretch of time the troops need pinning down with it that 's all I 'm saying . |
| 6 | He says it 's a long stretch of road and you need at least two service areas . |
| 7 | Aye , it 's a long number of years . |
| 8 | Towards the end too , there is a long exhortation of the need to keep the sea , as the means of protecting England . |
| 9 | There is a long tradition of by-employment , much of it non-agricultural in nature , in Japanese farming families , and the extension of this practice since 1945 — accentuated by the sharp decline of the previously all-important silkworm cultivation — has made part-time farming a dominant feature of the rural sector . |
| 10 | Certainly the word for spirit is female in Hebrew , and there is a long tradition of the divine wisdom being conceived to be feminine . |
| 11 | Compared to the USA , where there is a long tradition of debate about general education ( Squires 1976 ; Gaff 1983 ) , the main influence of the concept of a liberal education in British higher education has probably been on the enactment of the curriculum — on the methods and styles of teaching , the role models and relationships involved , and the general learning ethos and environment . |
| 12 | Nevertheless , there is a long tradition of general education in higher education there ( which suggests that it is England rather than Scotland which is atypical in this respect ) . |
| 13 | It is worth noting that in the USA there is a long tradition of national commissions on the curriculum , as well as a considerable academic literature that has influenced British thinking . |
| 14 | Similarly , there is a long tradition of receipt of state benefits . |
| 15 | There is a long tradition of attending Ballycastle Fair , and some still go . |
| 16 | The nature of language is more complex than amateurs think , and there is a long tradition of scholarship and study to draw upon . |
| 17 | You can see those rows of abbots on either side and behind them is a long tradition of succession of abbots including great saints and I suppose a few sinners as well . |
| 18 | There is a long run of teak grabrail on each side of the coachroof and the side decks and foredeck are skinned with laid teak , as are the cockpit seats and sole . |
| 19 | In Jamaica there is a long history of environmental change due to land-use practices . |
| 20 | Much of Britain is densely populated and intensively farmed , and there is a long history of metal mining and movement of minerals and metals . |
| 21 | Judith Ochshorn , a specialist in Near Eastern culture , points out that there is a long history of women as mourners and attendants on the dead : thus ‘ in its cultural context , the presence of women at the cross or at the tomb of Jesus was not exceptional ’ . |
| 22 | There is a long history of the use of conciliation in employment relations , justified because one objective is to secure the continuance of the relationship between the parties in dispute . |
| 23 | Secondly , there is a long history of reaction against abuses of judicial interrogation . |
| 24 | ‘ Secondly , there is a long history of reaction against abuses of judicial interrogation . |
| 25 | In a study of miraculous images of Mary which weep , the author , Father Hebert SM , after saying there is a long history of these writes , ‘ There has never been such an outpouring of tears as there has been in this century … more explicitly during the ten years , 1971–1981 , particularly so in Italy and in the United States ’ . |
| 26 | there is a long history of decentralised management in the field of housing where local offices on council estates have their own budgets for minor repairs . |
| 27 | ‘ There is a long history of MPs , ’ said Evans earnestly , |
| 28 | The notion of a " post-Creole continuum " , first put forward by De Camp ( 1971 ) , is an attempt to explain the complex linguistic situation in those places where there is a long history of native speakers of British English in contact with speakers of an English-based Creole . |
| 29 | There is a long history of members of the aristocracy seeking an alternative Merovingian lord ; effectively it begins with Arcadius calling Childebert into the Auvergne . |
| 30 | There is a long history of concern for the potential significance of childhood parental loss through separation or death , and the development of emotional and behavioural problems in childhood and later life . |