Example sentences of "a [noun sg] with a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | This letter was only the beginning of a case with a long history , and by piecing together a number of disjointed fragments of information we can obtain an unusually clear picture of the sequence of events and of Anselm 's reactions to them . |
| 2 | The woman stirred the onions around a bit with a long black fork and then settled the large frying pan more firmly on top of the blazing logs . |
| 3 | ( c ) On a computer with a long word-length , it is wasteful to store small fixed-point binary numbers one to a word . |
| 4 | Actually , the experiment is not perfect because , strictly speaking , Andersson only showed that the number of nests on a male 's territory was related to tail length ; the eggs could have been fertilized by another male , and the female then attracted to the territory of a male with a longer tail . |
| 5 | The objections to the use of the term case management has resulted in the abandonment of a term with a long history of service use , evaluation and exploration , and the substitution of one with few if any empirical referents at all . |
| 6 | Just when the hero really needs the girl 's help , she stands revealed as a killer with a long history of leading enslaved men to destruction , a siren wrapped in furs and degeneracy , venom in her veins , murder in her mind … |
| 7 | A fabric with a long pile , often made of wool or synthetic yarns in the pile and with a cotton ground . |
| 8 | Apparently it is not intended to decide that a bowler with a long run pays more than a dashing opening batsman , but rather to ensure that a highly-paid Test cricketer does not necessarily pay the same amount as a young uncapped player . |
| 9 | Skelton is a village with a long history and an attractive character in the area of the church . |
| 10 | This provides precisely what is missing from the English scene : a body with a long term and wide-ranging view of the land situation complete with powers to act positively in order to solve land availability problems . |
| 11 | Use the remaining marzipan to model a head with a long neck . |
| 12 | In America , where they often performed , the trains struck them as poignant chiefly because uncared for , but they had found a friend with a long New England face who was a fireman on the run to Boston , and his professionalism and high interest in the topic of transport were entirely cheering . |
| 13 | It was to be a title with a long and cosmopolitan history . |
| 14 | Tended by a woman with a long stick . |
| 15 | Their rapacious habits have been the subject of bloody hyperbole in films and bestsellers , so everybody knows that the shark has ranks of fearsome , pointed teeth , an elegant , incessant swishing swimming motion , a tail with a long ‘ point ’ uppermost , and a big appetite . |
| 16 | The long term view that is required for mineral exploitation means that planning permissions have generally been given for a working with a long life commonly not less than fifteen years , and , on occasion , up to sixty years . |
| 17 | The worst of the trouble occurred in Bihar , a state with a long record of political violence . |
| 18 | Fundamentally , many regard the ‘ conflict ’ over housing as an extension of the major divisions in society and argue that the allocation of housing is determined largely by the power that each group has come to possess in a society with a long history of class conflict ( Haddon 1970 ; Duncan 1976 ; Mellor 1977 ) . |
| 19 | A man with a long knife cut the dolphins ' skins and fat from the bodies , by cutting across the dolphin 's head , slicing it down the middle , then peeling off the outer layer . |
| 20 | Had William Day , a man with a long criminal record , just happened along inadvertently ? |
| 21 | A school with a long tradition of extra curricular activities is likely to continue with an extensive provision even if the activities alter to reflect the expertise of the adults involved . |
| 22 | Joseph had seen his grandfather dressed up for a sing-sing with a long white bone through this hole , forming a kind of false moustache each side of his nose . |
| 23 | Martin Smout says : ‘ Wimpey is a company with a long history of fine traditions . |
| 24 | Kirton , though , achieved rather more fame for the fact that he took his own lemons to Athletic park when they did not have the appropriate fruit to go with his gin-and-tonics , and that he watched the game from the in-goal area , puffing on a cigar with a long checked scarf around his neck . |
| 25 | The man had in his hand a gun with a long and fat barrel . |
| 26 | One belonged to a family with a long history of ill-health ; another was a slattern with a fondness for the bottle ; yet another had a family who had a habit of making other people 's homes their own . |
| 27 | A family with a long tradition of service at the head of which is a woman of very strong high moral values . |
| 28 | What is being suggested here is a distinct historical switch in notions of the family , away from traditions which stressed the links with kin and the importance of lineage ( being part of a family with a long history which marriage sought to sustain ) towards a new stress on sexual choice as the basis for alliance . |
| 29 | This is a perspective with a long historical pedigree . |