Example sentences of "in a long [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | A professional cuckoo in the hybrid nest of lawyers , architects , engineers and surveyors was the ultimate beneficiary in a long story of disciplinary realignment . |
| 2 | A querulous voice told him to go and jump in the Thames so he knocked again and eventually the door swung open to reveal a tall , gaunt figure , dressed in a long robe of dyed brown fur . |
| 3 | It comes in a long roll of 20m , and has a neat perforator which enables you to tear off a strip to the correct length . |
| 4 | Professor John Vincent in a long assessment of Gladstone observes " He was appalled by frivolity , and frivolity was appalled by him … " something in the tone of his voice and his way of coming into the room that is not aristocratic . |
| 5 | Although the feet do not stretch and point in the way we still care about in the West , the dancers do not just move from position to position ; they dance in a long poem of fluently musical movement that is classical ballet 's chief claim to fame . |
| 6 | The latest in a long history of skirmishes in the palaeontological world has blown up into what one particularly bad press release describes as ‘ one of the nastiest personal and professional feuds in all of science ’ . |
| 7 | The case was the latest episode in a long history of antagonism between the government and the Far Eastern Economic Review , the circulation of which had been severely restricted in Singapore . |
| 8 | ‘ Do n't worry , Matey , ’ he said to her , leaving the room of many memories , putting his arms about her , seeing with new eyes how old she had grown , and that he was all she had , the last of the many children for whom she had cared in a long life of selfless service . |
| 9 | Outside , Mitch let his breath out in a long sigh of relief . |
| 10 | Mary McCulloch and big Mary went straight along to the Duke 's house with their loads of food and as they went in the Duke came out , dressed in a long plaid of turquoise blue , and had a quick low word with them . |
| 11 | Yet the question remains as to what Baldwin thought he might have attempted in a long night of ‘ reasoning together ’ . |
| 12 | Susan Bradley 's voice , at first apologetic then conspiratorial and finally close to tears , squeaked into his ear in a long monologue of complaint and desperation . |
| 13 | In a long account of this hunt , Green refers to himself at one point as being in the ‘ plebeian party . ’ |
| 14 | In a long stretch of vulnerable Asian land between Vietnam and Japan they are typhoons — the Chinese words for ‘ big wind ’ ; in the Philippines , which suffer each summer from the most dreadful storms , they are baguios ; on the west costs of Mexico and Central America , cordonazos ; and in north-western Australia , willy-willies . |
| 15 | Somewhat surprisingly , given the avowed centrality of curriculum development in the project , " linking the centre closely to the curriculum of the school " appears only as the last in a long list of implementation steps . |
| 16 | The three Which Mortgage awards are merely the culmination in a long list of achievements in Abbey National 's impressive history . |
| 17 | In a long list of detailed recommendations , the committee urged institutions and organisations at all levels to recognise these problems and work to solve them . |
| 18 | Now the family 's fears had been proved groundless , the bungled pay-off could be dismissed as just another example of clumsy incompetence on the part of the police , the latest in a long list of blunders . |
| 19 | For environmental health officer John Waite , it 's just another in a long list of complaints about noise . |
| 20 | Two men had escaped the inrush but had been trapped in a long section of roadway ; they had lived together in the pitch dark and freezing cold for about 8 days , until overcome by poisonous gas ; there was no way in which they could have been saved in time had their position been known . |
| 21 | Its purely endogenous nature is well illustrated by the facts that it can be evoked by the absence of a stimulus such as a gap in a long sequence of evenly spaced tones and that the actual probability and significance of the stimulus is less important in determining whether or not the P300 will occur than the subject 's perception of its probability and significance . |
| 22 | However diverse the animals and plants of the modern world , they were but the last in a long sequence of populations that have replaced one another throughout the earth 's history . |
| 23 | The failed coup was the latest in a long sequence of clashes between the rival Khalq ( " Masses " ) and Parcham ( " Banner " ) factions of the ruling People 's Democratic Party of Afghanistan ( PDPA ) . |
| 24 | Energy flashed past Ardamal in a long arc of fire , blistering the side of the shaft , missing his face by less than half a metre . |
| 25 | Gazzer let his breath out in a long exhalation of relief . |
| 26 | If we examine the RNAs in a long succession of test-tubes , we see what can only be called evolutionary change . |
| 27 | Does he understand that planning permission was initially gained , with difficulty , for the building of motorways through areas of outstanding natural beauty and great environmental sensitivity , so many people would not be keen to see developers spending hundreds of thousands — if not millions — of pounds fighting in a long succession of inquiries so that they can build not just motorway service areas — possibly excluding the disabled and lorries — but hotels and other facilities that would never have received permission when the original planning consent was granted ? |
| 28 | A hideous , distorted , emaciated maniac without knowledge , without patriotism , without natural affection , spending his life in a long routine of useless and atrocious self-torture , and quailing before the ghastly phantoms of his delirious brain had become the ideal of the nations which had known the writings of Plato and Cicero , and the lives of Socrates and Cato . |
| 29 | So with all this in mind , as I sat in a long queue of airmen for the preliminary examination , I was thankful . |
| 30 | A set of 32 items meeting these criteria were selected for a short form of the test , and a larger set of 150 items was included in a long form of the test . |