Example sentences of "be a long [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of this is in the northwest where there has been a long history of land-use , involving both degradation and successful reclamation . |
| 2 | There has been a long tradition of professional marketing activities by a wide spectrum of non-profit making organisations including political parties , the Health Education Council with its anti-smoking campaign , the Right to Read programme , Oxfam , Christian Aid and the Salvation Army . |
| 3 | In Devon and Cornwall indeed there seems to have been a long tradition of piratical and privateering activity in addition to legitimate trade , which may well have laid the foundation for the activities of seamen from this part of the country in the Elizabethan age ( 63 , pp.159–60 ) . |
| 4 | It 's been a long day of trundling past an infinity of fir trees , and photographer Ridgers has hardly survived it . |
| 5 | Mr Foster said : ‘ There has been a long period of uncertainty which always causes problems . |
| 6 | Well what this has involved me in has been a long study of a single school . |
| 7 | Well what this has involved me in has been a long study of a single school . |
| 8 | There had been a long list of such casualties in Libby 's life , this was just another . |
| 9 | Lining the walls of the display hall are a long series of photographs and displays which trace not just the history of Yakovlev but the whole history of Soviet aviation , both civil and military , from the very earliest days right up to date and covering significant events through the years . |
| 10 | A refugee from the Colette-Willy ménage of the early nineteen hundreds , from what promised to be a long stint of sterile work as Willy 's secretary and as yet another among the throng of that extraordinary man 's unacknowledged collaborators , the young Marcel Boulestin fled the malicious gossip , the dramas and scandals in which these two now legendary figures were for ever involving each other and their friends . |
| 11 | The first of what promised to be a long series of show trials of former senior officials of the ousted Ceausescu regime ended on Feb. 2 when a military tribunal in Bucharest found Emil Bobu , Manea Manescu , Ion Dinca and Tudor Postelnicu guilty of " co-authorship of genocide " in connection with the killing of demonstrators in Timisoara , Bucharest and elsewhere at the start of the December 1989 revolution [ see pp. 37104-05 ] . |
| 12 | You might think that there would be a long line of officials queuing up to undertake such a testing spying mission — and apparently there was . |
| 13 | ‘ It is the first in what we hope will be a long line of animation series from HTV . |
| 14 | Instead it was understood that there would be a long period of commodity circulation and all that that implied . |
| 15 | The committees are empowered to suggest amendments , and the bill which is returned to the house ( if it ever is ) may be substantially different from its original form ; there may be a long period of debate between representatives of the two houses of the Legislature and the Executive before consensus can be reached . |
| 16 | But if character assassination were a crime , there 'd be a long list of suspects . |
| 17 | Erm Oh dear this is going to be a long list of things I was supposed to do but did n't . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | There 's a long bit of ash on the end of her fag , and when she talks it falls off onto the chickens . |
| 20 | ‘ There 's a long list of equipment here , ’ Ruth pointed out . |
| 21 | And then er , there 's a long line of changing jobs and eventually I came to Dudley . |
| 22 | It 's it 's a long stretch of time the troops need pinning down with it that 's all I 'm saying . |
| 23 | He says it 's a long stretch of road and you need at least two service areas . |
| 24 | Aye , it 's a long number of years . |
| 25 | Towards the end too , there is a long exhortation of the need to keep the sea , as the means of protecting England . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Certainly the word for spirit is female in Hebrew , and there is a long tradition of the divine wisdom being conceived to be feminine . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 ) . |
| 30 | 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 . |