Example sentences of "a long [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He uses a special tool called a cheese iron to pull a long plug of cheese out of one truckle from each day 's production . |
| 2 | France 's Maghreb policy was criticized on Nov. 16 by the Polisario Front , which had waged a long struggle for independence in Western Sahara . |
| 3 | Always self-deprecating and modest , he fought bravely a long struggle against cancer , remaining cheerful and full of amusing unrepeatable anecdotes . |
| 4 | He was re-elected to parliament in 1978 , and then survived a long struggle against cancer . |
| 5 | In 1954 it was a long journey by rail from Glasgow to Paris , and it must have seemed longer to me . |
| 6 | The wheel was in active service from 1960 , after a long journey by train from Argyll to Dorset . |
| 7 | He uncorked his canteen and took a long drink of water . |
| 8 | That is why I allowed a long run on question 1 today — It was longer than I would normally allow . |
| 9 | Diane Edwards made a long run for home to defeat Ann Williams in a modest 4min 19.46sec with Cahill just unable to get back on terms . |
| 10 | There is a long run of teak grabrail on each side of the coachroof and the side decks and foredeck are skinned with laid teak , as are the cockpit seats and sole . |
| 11 | And there he has obstinately been retained , despite a long run of failure unprecedented in my experience among specialist batsmen . |
| 12 | Against the wall were ranged , in regular array , a long row of elm boards cut into the same shape : looking , in the dim light , like high-shouldered ghosts with –heir hands in their breeches-pockets . |
| 13 | He gestured towards the first of a long row of recuperation pods , where Christine LaFayette 's face was visible through a clear plastic window . |
| 14 | He put up his hands and found it was a long strand of seaweed . |
| 15 | In the suspended moment Jess saw a long strand of cobweb stretching from window to floor , flecks of dust spinning in a shaft of sunlight , her petticoat in a ball against a pile of hay , the filthy shirt on the nail where she 'd hung it the night before . |
| 16 | Her eyes opened and she saw that he had tugged a long strand of hair free and was playing it between his fingers . |
| 17 | The vacuum cleaner , sensing her lack of concentration , took advantage of it to munch and slaver up a long strand of rug fringe : there was a smell of burning rubber . |
| 18 | There 's a long bit of ash on the end of her fag , and when she talks it falls off onto the chickens . |
| 19 | ‘ 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 . |
| 20 | He 'd tell him , he 'd get his orders from the office , cos the Deputy Harbourmaster he would go down all the sound he sound in river and see what wanted taken out , then he 'd say to my father I 'll dredge at so and so belo below docksill and docksill what they used to do they used to , my father what he 'd do he 'd put stakes on the mud , a short stake and a long stake on account of the tide and he 'd , he 'd make an imaginary on that stake , then he 'd go ashore at Wolverston , phone up what have you got on your docksill , the fella might say it 's ten feet , well he 'd say right we 'll make that twenty feet , so that 's er , that 's what he used to work on to dredge the river . |
| 21 | A long experience of management problems with a child , for instance , increased the chance that a crisis such as the child 's arrest for a criminal offence would provoke an episode of depression in the mother . |
| 22 | Most of this is in the northwest where there has been a long history of land-use , involving both degradation and successful reclamation . |
| 23 | The observation that despite increased stool frequency , stool weight was not greater in the patients is likely to reflect dietary changes , which inevitably occur in patients with a long history of diarrhoea . |
| 24 | Afghanistan has had a long history of neutrality and non-alignment which Soviet leaders have assiduously fostered . |
| 25 | Egypt is another example of a country which , like Pakistan and China , has a long history of irrigation , in this case in the Nile Valley ( section 3.4.2 ) beginning some 5 kyr BP . |
| 26 | Robert , a man in his late twenties with a long history of occult involvement , grew up in what he now knows to be one of the most haunted farmhouses in Lancashire on the Fylde coast . |
| 27 | Most , if not all , of the more seriously disadvantaged areas have experienced a long history of marginalisation and of dependence on distant or alien authorities . |
| 28 | It was a fall down the cellar steps of one of these houses which started a long history of back trouble . |
| 29 | In the secondary sector they have a long history of influence as local employers . |
| 30 | Similarly , Pound and her colleagues ( 1985 ) found that a long history of depressive illness in a mother , or a combination of depression and personality problems , was associated with problems ( especially of sleeping ) in her children . |