Example sentences of "[noun] [be] [prep] a long [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | In the modern age , institutions outside the family have been created to administer public affairs and women were for a long time expressly excluded . |
| 3 | This hypothesis was for a long time a subject of much contention in anthropology and is not even now entirely laid to rest , but the meagre historical record we possess can not possibly support such an assertion . |
| 4 | His great courage at the time eventually earned him the Military Cross , but the harrowing experience was for a long while foremost in his mind and symbolized by the walk back to his commanding officer over a mass of dead German and British soldiers in which his feet scarcely touched the ground . |
| 5 | She remembered that John 's only rehearsal place at the time was in a long room above a sundry warehouse in Lower Moseley Street . |
| 6 | The mainstream of early French political socialism was for a long time essentially petit bourgeois , in its absence of rapprochement with trade unions , in its party organizational form , and in the social background of its parliamentarians and membership . |