Example sentences of "[vb -s] a long [coord] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More over , each has a long and informative preface . |
| 2 | The University of Edinburgh is one of the ancient universities of Scotland and as such has a long and fascinating history on which to build towards a dynamic future at the forefront of teaching and research . |
| 3 | The School has a long and successful tradition in team games and competitions . |
| 4 | It remains the key to our understanding of the natural world and it enables us to recognise that life has a long and continuous history during which organisms , both plant and animal , have changed , generation by generation , as they colonised all parts of the world . |
| 5 | The use of the streets and other public places as venues in which to air grievances and complaints ( and to celebrate achievements ) has a long and hallowed history . |
| 6 | Instead , sanctions could sometimes be avoided by using the organization 's rules against a superior — ‘ working to rule ’ has a long and honourable tradition in labour history , especially where industrial action is prohibited . |
| 7 | Vindication of the right to vote has a long and proud history . |
| 8 | The Training scheme has a long and proud history . |
| 9 | Perhaps the latter term suggests too wide a subject-matter ; it would seem , for example , to include extradition ( which has a long and separate history , and is not examined in this book ) as well as the provision of technical assistance in , for example , legislative drafting . |
| 10 | This distinction has a long and respectable history . |
| 11 | Like the Australian marsupial Myrmecobius , it has a long and pointed snout , extremely long and pointed in this case , and an extremely long sticky tongue . |
| 12 | The city of Shechem has a long and important history . |
| 13 | The usage embodied in the first of these quotations is now well established in the literature , and the sentiments expressed in the second serve to remind us that the idea of the ultimately contingent nature of what is often taken to be ‘ natural ’ has a long and distinguished pedigree . |
| 14 | The legal profession in England and Wales has a long and distinguished history . |
| 15 | The legal profession in England and Wales has a long and distinguished history . |
| 16 | This journal has a long and distinguished history , publishing mainly shorter papers on a wide spread of subjects . |
| 17 | This journal has a long and distinguished history , publishing mainly shorter papers on a wide spread of subjects . |
| 18 | The University of Edinburgh has a long and distinguished history and at a time of difficulty for the institutions of higher education throughout the country , Edinburgh is in a process of constantly reappraising and improving standards to meet the growing demands of a changing world . |
| 19 | The University of Edinburgh , although it has a long and distinguished history , is very much a university of the 1990s . |
| 20 | Biological research has a long and distinguished tradition in the University and the excellence of research within the Division is recognised nationally and internationally . |
| 21 | Fraserburgh has a long and distinguished lifeboat history , but the town has paid the price with the loss of no less than 13 lifeboatmen 's lives in the course of several disasters . |
| 22 | He has a long and distinguished career in public health medicine : he was the first doctor to give a patient penicillin in 1941 and then moved to the post of director of the Medical Research Council 's Pneumoconiosis Research Unit , investigating diseases of the lung . |
| 23 | Take education , in which Mr Clinton has a long and distinguished interest . |
| 24 | Lucca has a long and brave history and its rigid grid of streets still betray its Roman origins . |
| 25 | The use of sex crime in the media as a source of titillation has a long and inglorious past which has emerged spectacularly again in the Thatcher years . |
| 26 | It is this same idea which she develops here , as she takes a long and loving look at the work of 28 contemporary artists who have an honoured place in the Middlesbrough permanent collection . |
| 27 | What we are witnessing is the eager consummation that follows a long and passionate seduction . |
| 28 | Finally the road turns away and makes a long and rough descent , with Loch Hourn dramatically in view ahead , to the few buildings of Kinlochhourn where there is life but no sign of it . |