Example sentences of "of a long [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I know , but just think of a long soak in a hot bath and a large soft bed to sleep on . |
| 2 | Accordingly , his introduction takes the form of a long conversation between himself and an old man , a Beggar , who approaches him while he is walking in the fields after a sleepless night at Chester 's Inn , where the clerks lived . |
| 3 | The secret of a long day of battle was fitting the components together : the state of caution ; the state of preparedness ; the state of uncaring action ; the state of elation ; the state of waiting ; so that each stage matched the others in sureness and strength , with every thread of body and mind strung to its finest pitch ready to sing to the touch , from one night 's sleep until the next , or until death itself . |
| 4 | Right now it 's the end of a long day in London and the 48-year-old Young prowls the room with a stooped , rangy gait , the traces of a roguish grin on his well-worn face . |
| 5 | There are , of course , great temptations for an interviewer to classify respondents into categories where they are most needed rather than where they really belong , especially when the job is nearly complete and respondents from particular categories seem rare or , perhaps understandably , at the end of a long day in the rain and the cold . |
| 6 | It 's old ladies who show all the signs of a long life on subsistence , though they would n't necessarily see themselves as having been poor , because their husbands were n't necessarily poor . |
| 7 | A curious picture was forming in his mind — of a long thread of cotton with the black slaves on one end and himself and the rest of the children on the other . |
| 8 | He saw Ras Tafari — later Haile Selassie - return from a great battle which was the beginning of a long road to Emperorship . |
| 9 | Like Beinn Eighe , it takes the form of a long ridge with several summits , its full traverse involving a major expedition that will live in the memory for ever . |
| 10 | The work marks the end of a long battle at Darlington council over the best pedestrianisation plan for Darlington . |
| 11 | And then playing a a hook , bowling a hook with a sort of a long hook to An iron hoop or hook it would about two foot six in circumference . |
| 12 | But the ‘ national ’ problem of-Kosovo is a consequence of a long history of Serbian oppression and chauvinism , which has provoked the natural response of Albanian nationalism . |
| 13 | Both men were bound over to keep the peace , but the incident was the beginning of a long history of misbehaviour which was to drive a wedge between Gallacher and the unfortunate clubs who tried to tame his wayward spirit . |
| 14 | In the Netherlands , as a result of a long history of legislative enactment in socio-economic affairs and close involvement of unions and employers with government in this area the two national employers ' confederations ( denominational and non-denominational ) also carry somewhat greater weight than their member associations . |
| 15 | In the Middle East , the experience of modernity and modernisation could only be negotiated in the context of a long history of colonial and missionary activities . |
| 16 | At its surface Mercury resembles the Moon : atmosphereless , devoid of volatiles , and still bearing ancient craters because of a long history of geological quiescence . |
| 17 | ‘ The hammer ’ , Hortensia said , ‘ is actually a ruddy great cannon-ball on the end of a long bit of wire , and the thrower whisks it round and round his or her head faster and faster and then lets it go . |
| 18 | Lawrence Stone , for instance , in his massive book , The Family , Sex and Marriage , speaks in terms of a long development towards modern sexual ‘ permissiveness ’ from the eighteenth century . |
| 19 | The funeral , attended by President Turgut Özal , was the result of a long campaign for the rehabilitation of Menderes , led by the ruling Motherland Party and the opposition True Path Party . |
| 20 | Bayazid Jacques , Bourequat Midhat René Bourequat and Ali Auguste Bourequat , who disappeared without explanation after their arrest on July 8 , 1973 , had been the focus of a long campaign by human rights groups . |
| 21 | However this may be , it is both the climax of a long tradition of minstrelsy and in part , perhaps in large part , the work of a poet of considerable accomplishment . |
| 22 | As such it is part of the legacy of a long tradition of humanist thought which stretches back to fifth-century BC Greece when the first decisive steps towards modern secularism were taken . |
| 23 | A. G. Dickens , in particular , has consistently maintained that the anti-clerical tracts of lawyers such as Simon Fish and Christopher St German were not merely isolated examples of lay hostility to the church , totally unrepresentative of public opinion , but on the contrary part of a long tradition of anti-clericalism among the literate classes , and most especially London merchants , common lawyers , parliamentarians , and royal officials . |
| 24 | Many students of engineering and other professional or semi-professional fields were in the past part-time not full-time , and sandwich courses have grown out of a long tradition of first night-school , then day release and then block release — a pattern associated in the post-war period mainly with the non-university sector . |
| 25 | And even her clothes , once you had got over the original shock , were part of a long tradition of home-made outfits dating back to her days at the Mother Theresa Convent , South Wimbledon . |
| 26 | Tamayo 's insistence on using new materials to construct his prints is very much part of a long tradition in modern art . |
| 27 | At least she had the satisfaction of a long marriage to a devoted husband . |
| 28 | This was the beginning of a long conflict between Conservative Lords and Liberal Commons which lasted until 1911 . |
| 29 | Unlike sales for a manufacturing company , the sale of a life assurance product is only the start of a long relationship between the policyholder and the company . |
| 30 | That is obviously the summary of a long story of consistent dedication , overlaid with constant hesitation and changings of mind and alternations about what the actual plans were going to be about the work that would be left to aftertimes . |