Example sentences of "long career [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A pupil of Dent Grammar School , Sedgwick became one of the founders of the science of geology and had a long career as Professor of Geology at Cambridge University , where he was buried in 1873 at the age of ninety-eight . |
| 2 | I have discovered , Miss Honey , during my long career as a teacher that a bad girl is a far more dangerous creature than a bad boy . |
| 3 | Yet this is plainly a mighty achievement , an emphatically complete portrait of the man in his age — his humiliating stint in the blacking factory , his mushrooming early fame , his obsession with the theatre , his long career as a journalist , his exacting work methods , his ferocious energy , his hallucinating imagination , his politics , his family , his friendships , his enmities ; everything is here , sifted , ordered , narrated . |
| 4 | Ludwig Erhard , who succeeded Adenauer as Chancellor in October 1963 , was an experienced minister , the man held responsible for German economic success since 1949 , deeply committed to the US alliance and who , at 66 , could look forward to a long career as Chancellor — given the record of his predecessor . |
| 5 | Mr Sydney Breeze returned to give a further talk on this subject and to relate many of his experiences during his long career as a top link GWR driver . |
| 6 | It 's first night again for Paul Nicholas ; one of many he 's known in his long career as a song and dance man . |
| 7 | For Moran it is another chapter in his long career as he equals David O'Leary 's record of 23 World Cup appearances . |
| 8 | Asked to sum up in a sentence the essence of his long career as a reporter , he considers the question for a few seconds , laughs , and says : ‘ I do n't think I could do better than quote my old friend the late Jimmy Robinson , who was the Daily Mail 's man in Belfast for many years . |
| 9 | Raffles was , however , to have a long career on the stage and in films . |
| 10 | THE FIRST and most serious change that Professor Horst Rollnik has seen during his 19-year long career at Bonn is the vast growth in the number of students , in all subjects including his own , physics . |
| 11 | Jannie Breedt has seen it all before in his long career at Transvaal . |
| 12 | His long career for Somerset lasted from 1891 to 1910 . |
| 13 | Barber then began what was to be a 43 year long career with May & Baker , as research chemist under Dr A. J. Ewins , FRS , carrying out process research in support of the manufacture of products such as neoarsphenamine ( NAB ) for treating syphilis . |
| 14 | In 1964 he was voted European Footballer of the Year and in a long career with Scotland he won 55 caps and earned the interchangeable nicknames ‘ Denis The Menace ’ or simply ‘ The King ’ . |
| 15 | Now near retirement after a long career in product development , Mr Dulude can presumably act without fear or favour . |
| 16 | It is not surprising , then , to find that the clause has a long career in the documents . |
| 17 | The first of these papers was Indian Opinion , which began its long career in 1906 , launched by Mahatma Gandhi . |
| 18 | After a long career in public service , Monnet had been appointed as head of the French Planning Commission . |
| 19 | His long career in France which led him to hold high military and administrative posts , as well as amassing a fortune through the capture of prisoners in battle , the seizing of property and the exploitation of estates , shows him to have been a ‘ realistic ’ person in all that he did . |
| 20 | He had retired to NZ after a long career in education and publishing with Schofield & Sims , Collins Educational and Holmes McDougall , where latterly he had been publishing director . |
| 21 | Probably this situation , and the example of his father , who had risen in the king 's service from humble origins to the earldom of Essex , was the spur to his long career in the royal administration . |
| 22 | He had a long career in the university , becoming bachelor and then ( c .1284 ) doctor of theology as well as master c .1290 . |
| 23 | JE : Though this role was written for you , in a sense , did you find it difficult having to sing Britten after a long career in the standard repertoire ? |