Example sentences of "a long [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A long 20ft from the deck must be climbed with no protection . |
| 2 | Pipe cutters consist of a long pair of handles , with a very heavy bicycle-chain-type construction with cutting wheels in the centre . |
| 3 | Her favourite scene was the sequence of Susan , partially concussed , menacing Ian with the points of a long pair of scissors , threatening to stab him until she gives in and vents her rage instead on the mattress of her bed . |
| 4 | Despite some rave reviews , Notes , which Lotus characterises as an enterprise but with a long sales cycle , has not been a runaway best-seller for the Cambridge company . |
| 5 | Despite some rave reviews , Notes , which Lotus characterises as an enterprise but with a long sales cycle , has not been a runaway bestseller for Lotus . |
| 6 | Her dark , grey-streaked hair , which she wore in a long bob , had been cut by Vidal Sassoon and she wore a beautifully tailored black suit relieved only by a little white flounce at the neckline . |
| 7 | Hair was razor cut into a long bob and heavily tousled into shape . |
| 8 | She was a pretty girl , with expressive dark grey eyes , and dark brown hair in a long bob . |
| 9 | They refrained from responding to a long series of statements by senior Chinese officials which contradicted both the letter and the spirit of the Joint Declaration - including an assurance , for example , that the post-1997 Hong Kong press would be free for ‘ as long as it did not publish anything detrimental to China 's national interest ’ . |
| 10 | Kuypers then started a long series of collaborative studies in which injuries to some of these connections in the monkey 's brain were correlated with the defects they produced in performance of movements ; the poising of an arm , for instance , to carry out an operation with the fingers could be dissociated from the ability to use the fingers skilfully . |
| 11 | The plan to make unions responsible for unofficial action arose out of the strikes in the summer on the London Underground , where an informal group of drivers and guards led a long series of stoppages over pay . |
| 12 | The BBC found itself embroiled in a long series of disputes with the government , partly over its financing , partly over alleged anti-government reporting of such episodes as the Libyan bombing raids in 1986 ( covered by an able woman reporter , Kate Adie ) . |
| 13 | There had been several local , peripheral wars in which Britain had been engaged , notably that in Korea in 1950–3 , and a long series of conflicts to resolve colonial problems — Malaya in the late 1940s , Kenya and Cyprus in the 1950s , Suez ( most traumatically ) in 1956 , Aden and Southern Arabia in the sixties . |
| 14 | As Ken Plummer observes , whereas once it was the homosexual who was viewed as sick , now it might be the heterosexual who is charged with pathology : ‘ Whereas once the homosexual was identified by a long series of character traits , it is now possible to identify the traits of the homophobe : authoritarian , cognitively restricted , with gender anxieties , ( Plummer , ‘ Homosexual Categories ’ , 62 ) . |
| 15 | That meeting was only the beginning of a long series of meetings , retreats and counselling sessions which formed the stepping stones for a return to an authentic Christian experience . |
| 16 | Rose ( 1868 ) , do not obviously suggest serious historical study , but are rather part of a long series of more popular works on Mary , in which Jean Plaidy and Madeleine Bingham are among the most recent exponents ; and there is a certain charm about the publication , in 1793 , of a work by one J. F. Gaum , Marie Stuart und Marie Antoinette in der Underwelt . |
| 17 | It is more like a slow process of sifting , in which , by a long series of stages , and with many pauses , grains of one kind tend to come together in a heap ’ . |
| 18 | The English climate , having given its clients a long series of warm sunny days , had decided that this must be paid for . |
| 19 | Its fifteen subject committees usually met three times a year and contributed to the development of a long series of projects . |
| 20 | A Circular on this subject ( to appear in July 1965 as 10/65 , probably the best known of a long series of Ministry and Department of Education and Science circulars ) was already in draft , but Tony Crosland was anxious to improve it . |
| 21 | After a long series of preliminary earthquakes , a circular area of ground began to rise slowly and steadily in January 1944 ; by April the area affected was three kilometres across , and had gone up fifteen metres ; by June it had gone up fifty metres , and had taken the village of Fukaba and all its inhabitants with it . |
| 22 | Breeding success , judging from a long series of reports from Rye , has also changed little since 1947 ; the Rye figures show an average brood size ranging from 5.7 to 9.7 , and averaging 7.8 . |
| 23 | Thomas Huxley , the great biologist , whose household was dominated by a long series of cats over a period of forty years , described how one of them , a young tabby tom-cat , developed the alarming game of jumping on the shoulders of his dinner-guests and refusing to dismount until they fed him some titbit . |
| 24 | Not only did it fail to achieve representation ( not surprising at under 1 per cent of the vote ) but it has since fallen apart in a long series of internecine conflicts ( which are too complex to describe here ) . |
| 25 | Jones and Brewer have had a long series of injuries , but both are near enough to fitness and form . |
| 26 | A spokesman for the Bristol-based Chelsea Building Society said : ‘ The timing is not ideal but it is at the end of a long series of events . ’ |
| 27 | There was a long series of public meetings in 1980 and one of these was set up as a sort of week-end rally to which the anti-nuclear people were invited from all over Ireland , and at a big indoor public meeting during that weekend where you would normally have expected about 400 people to turn up , only about two locals turned up and the rest were all outsiders . |
| 28 | It was a natural response to the advent of nuclear weapons to concentrate on means of limiting or even abolishing them ; and this response has led to a long series of arms control and disarmament negotiations at Geneva and elsewhere . |
| 29 | Instead , he argues , one must recognize ‘ a long series of endeavours to resolve persistent questions concerning the duties of the individual , the family and the community in provision for the less fortunate ’ , of which the twentieth-century saga of state pensions is but one chapter . |
| 30 | Hervey , a Breton , was appointed bishop , the first of a long series of members of the English royal court to be provided with a Welsh see : he was also the first bishop in Wales to come under the authority of an English archbishop . |