Example sentences of "a long line [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such a rod casts long and accurately ; picks up a long line without maniacal exertion , and remains soft enough in the tip to retain the necessary shock-absorber effect . |
| 2 | He was the latest in a long line of seasoned golfers to contract the yips and as a direct result slumped to 51st place on the Order of Merit . |
| 3 | This is obviously not new , and is in part an expansion of the teaching of a long line of papal encyclicals on social justice beginning with Leo XIII 's Rerum Novarum and extending up to Pope John 's Mater et Magistra and Pacem in Terris , but there is no possible doubt that the Council , following in this the footsteps of Pope John , gave both a wider range and a new urgency to concerns of this kind as properly constitutive of a very large part of Christian living . |
| 4 | My parents were from a long line of good people with a strong sense of duty , living at peace with their neighbours , quick to be helpful when it was in their power , understandably a little feudal in their outlook , with a cautious eye on the squire for whom they worked , liking a glass of beer or homemade parsnip wine , and not above a bit of rabbit poaching . |
| 5 | Area technical maintenance manager Pete Wootton , 32 , revealed that the wage drop was just the latest generous gesture in a long line of good turns . |
| 6 | Each individual cuckoo nestling is descended from a long line of ancestral cuckoo nestlings , every single one of whom must have succeeded in manipulating its foster-parent . |
| 7 | They behaved like brave soldiers because they had inherited the genes of a long line of ancestral queens whose lives , and whose genes , had been saved by soldiers as brave as themselves . |
| 8 | PAUL Rideout goes into a Sky TV shoot-out with Graeme Sharp at Boundary Park tomorrow , anxious to prove he can be the latest in a long line of great Everton centre-forwards . |
| 9 | Although , as Marc Raeff has pointed out , it was their methods rather than their aims which were at fault , it was nevertheless the inefficient , inhumane and corrupt administration of Siberia under Pestel and Treskin , last of a long line of government-appointed regional tyrants , that was to be tackled with such determination by Alexander 's brilliant bureaucrat and disgraced official , Mikhail Speranskii ( 1722–1839 ) . |
| 10 | Nicholas was only one in a long line of young Scots including the 16 year old Spurs player Graeme Souness who found London to be a lively but ultimately lonely city . |
| 11 | The Dzhungar state , the last in a long line of typical steppe nomad conglomerates descended from Genghis Khan 's empire , also claimed the more southerly zone where lay the headwaters of the Ob-Irtysh river system . |
| 12 | Clint has just met one of The Boys , the latest in a long line of piss-poor pre-pubescent Motown acts that the company hopes will be the new Jacksons . |
| 13 | With hindsight , of course , it is now possible to question the glamorizing of drug-taking in such films as Easy Rider , Psych-Out and The Trip and others ; the in-built health warnings were seldom noticed and there was a certain drugs bandwagon rolling , anyway , largely created in the pop industry where drug usage was not only referred to , even poetically eulogized in song , but physically demonstrated by some of its more tragic exponents like Brian Jones , Jimi Hendrix and Janice Joplin , to name but three in a long line of fallen idols and heroes . |
| 14 | A group of chandlers stood next to a long line of gutted pigs , arguing with their owner about the price of the fat which they would buy to make tallow candles . |
| 15 | Cover Girl Poker ) or should that be poke her ? ) is the latest in a long line of attempted trouser-arousers to appear on the C64 . |
| 16 | In an atmosphere of such buoyancy the dealers are obliged to cut margins and try to survive competition from the opportunists for whom the fax boom is simply the latest in a long line of nice little short-term earners , such as double-glazing and car phones . |
| 17 | Latest in a long line of internal frame alpine packs from Lowe , the Alpamayo has an easy-to-use stepless and lockable Wedge Adjustment back systems which makes achieving a good fit simple . |
| 18 | She could n't bear that — could n't stand to become just another in a long line of faceless women whose names he probably could n't even remember . |
| 19 | In vitro fertilisation is only the first of a long line of reproductive technologies which may be developed in the future . |
| 20 | And then er , there 's a long line of changing jobs and eventually I came to Dudley . |
| 21 | The Escale , the latest in a long line of successful and stylish models from Prout Catamarans , incorporates the latest thinking in hull , keel and rig designs . |
| 22 | Designed by Sydney Camm , the Hunter was one of a long line of successful fighting aircraft from the Hawker stable . |
| 23 | The TR6 was launched in 1969 as the latest in a long line of successful Triumph sportscars . |
| 24 | The TR6 was launched in 1969 as the latest in a long line of successful Triumph sportscars . |
| 25 | Christian , who came of a long line of English country gentlemen whose only aesthetic investment was in bloodstock , was a maverick , and the despair of his family when Edouard first met him . |
| 26 | Barbara Todd , executive secretary to a long line of senior managers , retired on 3 July 1992 . |
| 27 | This became the first in a long line of medieval whodunnits featuring an unusual detective , a 12th-century Benedictine monk named Brother Cadfael : when he is n't tending his herb garden , Cadfael is using his knowledge to solve a seemingly endless series of murders and mysterious disappearances . |
| 28 | In the first chilly greyness of dawn , before the sun rose , Sergeant Comstock , of the uniformed branch , who came of a long line of native fishermen , not to say poachers , and knew his river as he knew the palm of his own hand , thankfully abandoned what he had always known was a useless patrol of the left bank downstream , and on his own responsibility borrowed one of his many nephews , and embarked with him in the coracle which was his natural means of personal transport on the Comer . |
| 29 | He does n't correspond to any of the multiple fictions produced over the last hundred years or so by a long line of social reformers and slum missionaries of what the working class should be . |
| 30 | But I do n't love him ; I never have — he was just one in a long line of convenient , undemanding escorts I chose because they did n't threaten my independence … ’ |