Example sentences of "a long and distinguished " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ His investigative talent , which he displayed in this instance , will no doubt stand him in good stead in the future and I hope that he will have a long and distinguished career , ’ he said . |
| 2 | That 's largely historical ; and came about because the ECCU has such a long and distinguished tradition . |
| 3 | These are the bare bones of a long and distinguished scientific career . |
| 4 | There is a long and distinguished history of studying the visual system using ‘ psychophysical ’ procedures in which variations in subjective visual experience with variations in visual input are studied . |
| 5 | Take education , in which Mr Clinton has a long and distinguished interest . |
| 6 | IN A LONG and distinguished career , Malcolm Marshall had won almost everything , but not a winner 's medal in a Lord 's cup final . |
| 7 | Piers Rodgers , the Academy 's Secretary , makes the point that this is a show about art , not politics : ‘ There is a long and distinguished history of art and culture in Tibet and that civilisation is under threat at the moment . |
| 8 | He has a long and distinguished career in public health medicine : he was the first doctor to give a patient penicillin in 1941 and then moved to the post of director of the Medical Research Council 's Pneumoconiosis Research Unit , investigating diseases of the lung . |
| 9 | Fraserburgh has a long and distinguished lifeboat history , but the town has paid the price with the loss of no less than 13 lifeboatmen 's lives in the course of several disasters . |
| 10 | Miss Riley had a long and distinguished bookselling career over 65 years . |
| 11 | The usage embodied in the first of these quotations is now well established in the literature , and the sentiments expressed in the second serve to remind us that the idea of the ultimately contingent nature of what is often taken to be ‘ natural ’ has a long and distinguished pedigree . |
| 12 | The legal profession in England and Wales has a long and distinguished history . |
| 13 | The legal profession in England and Wales has a long and distinguished history . |
| 14 | This journal has a long and distinguished history , publishing mainly shorter papers on a wide spread of subjects . |
| 15 | DSc is somewhat different , being awarded usually to recipients on the basis of a long and distinguished record of scientific publications within a subject field . |
| 16 | This journal has a long and distinguished history , publishing mainly shorter papers on a wide spread of subjects . |
| 17 | Jeremy joined us as a Fellow of the Association with a long and distinguished career in the industryand took over at the helm of a dedicated and well-motivated teamat Trinity Road . |
| 18 | Biological research has a long and distinguished tradition in the University and the excellence of research within the Division is recognised nationally and internationally . |
| 19 | The University of Edinburgh has a long and distinguished history and at a time of difficulty for the institutions of higher education throughout the country , Edinburgh is in a process of constantly reappraising and improving standards to meet the growing demands of a changing world . |
| 20 | The University of Edinburgh , although it has a long and distinguished history , is very much a university of the 1990s . |
| 21 | Some , like the eponymous stout , have a long and distinguished heritage . |
| 22 | But McGilligan , who has made more than his fair share of sacrifices in a long and distinguished career in the Derry jersey , frowns on the impinging mercenary attitudes . |
| 23 | We bring the Guinness Spot to a close with a local musician who has had a long and distinguished career in the country and blues divisions of rock . |