Example sentences of "with a long [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Almost to a man and woman they are , as it happens , extremely sophisticated individuals , many with a long experience of political activity outside Parliament and several with long-held and well-thought-out anxieties about the course which events were taking in Europe . |
| 2 | The track would be constructed in Zhuhai , a capitalist-style special economic zone bordering Macau , the Portuguese enclave with a long history of grand prix racing . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Although mineral rights are generally held by the surface landowner , they may have been retained by a previous landowner when the surface freehold was sold , particularly in areas with a long history of mining such as South-west England . |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | Rue is an example of a common , well-known garden herb , with a long history of use , yet with properties that make it unsuitable for general use by the layman . |
| 8 | With a long history of severe depression and alcoholism , Jean was arrested for arson and spent seven months on remand on C1 , the psychiatric unit of Holloway prison . |
| 9 | Earlier induction of labour would obviously be preferable for a 40 year old primigravid woman with a long history of infertility , even after an uncomplicated pregnancy , whereas it may be inappropriate for a 25 year old multiparous woman . |
| 10 | A 40-year-old man with a long history of schizophrenia was arrested in a public car park while attempting to break into a car to steal a blanket off the back seat . |
| 11 | 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 … |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Extreme right-wing elements in the government and army were suspected ; the newspaper , with a long history of opposition to authoritarian governments , had been highly critical of the armed forces for their alleged involvement in the massacre on Jan. 28 of 15 peasants in El Zapote , near San Salvador . |
| 14 | Martin Smout says : ‘ Wimpey is a company with a long history of fine traditions . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | This volume closes with a long inventory of the furnishings belonging to Cardinal Valenti Gonzaga not long before his death in 1756 . |
| 17 | With a long sigh of his own , he rested his elbows on his knees and leant forward . |
| 18 | With a long sigh of relief , Sophie said , ‘ I 'll just ring the owners and tell them that , so far , everything has gone well . |
| 19 | At the end of one particularly difficult morning surgery , she sat down for coffee with a long sigh of relief . |
| 20 | It all starts with a few slow miles in the suburbs , then out into the Suffolk countryside , with a long trail of runner snaking their way along narrow country lanes . |
| 21 | Kites are back in again , but they are a far cry from the diamond-shape oldies made from brown paper and with a long tail of twisted pieces of newspaper . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | A family with a long tradition of service at the head of which is a woman of very strong high moral values . |
| 24 | Meanwhile , as discussed in section 5.2.1 , the eurobond market 's development in London can be attributed to prior development of the eurocurrency market , London 's overall infrastructure as a financial centre , the innovative merchant banks with a long tradition of intermediating financial flows , and the comparatively relaxed regulatory and fiscal regime . |
| 25 | Patients with a long duration of Crohn 's disease and who had received specific treatment ( steroids or surgery ) in the past , showed a similar significant ( p<0.05 ) response to elemental diet , DAI decreasing from 6.3 ( 1.4 ) to 2.2 ( 0.8 ) , as newly diagnosed patients , 3.0 ( 0.6 ) to 1.2 ( 0.7 ) . |
| 26 | The worst of the trouble occurred in Bihar , a state with a long record of political violence . |
| 27 | I was a tough kid with a long streak of yellow down my back . |
| 28 | The Rolex watch company have each year been the biggest sponsors of this event , with a long list of lesser sponsors including Walkers Shortbread , Eley , Ford Motor Company , Moët et Chandon , British Airways , J Barbour & Sons , Bells Scotch Whisky , Land Rover , and others . |
| 29 | The result would be a diagram which becomes ever more precise and explicit as it moves from left to right , with a long list of fairly narrowly defined functions on the right-hand side . |
| 30 | What Katherine found daunting was the ambience within : the large unsmiling woman who sat at a table in the entrance hall and stiffly handed her two sheets of paper , one with a map of the school which showed her own room clearly marked , the other with a long list of instructions printed in four languages , French , German , Italian and English ; a smell which mingled disinfectant and scouring soap ; the difference in temperature between the stifling main body of the school and the chill of the outlying wing where she found her room . |