Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] a long line " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | If her hurried attempt to close it was a betrayal then it was only another in a long line of mistakes . |
| 3 | He is yet another in a long line of Scottish internationalists whose generous gifts on the park were matched by an outrageous streak when they went out to play in the recreational sense . |
| 4 | We can also note that the relating of the artistic to the existential is characteristic of a long line of German writers . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The District Court in Topeka , Kansas , fined James and Linda Newton $75,000 for spreading false and malicious statements associating Procter & Gamble with satanism , one more in a long line of lawsuits the company has filed . |
| 7 | He is the first of a long line of distinguished French portrait sculptors . |
| 8 | Mike Gatting , first of a long line of England captains in 1988 . |
| 9 | In vitro fertilisation is only the first of a long line of reproductive technologies which may be developed in the future . |
| 10 | At least , this was the opinion of Dugdale , writing a hundred years later ; but it should be remembered that he was one of a long line of propagandists for land drainage , and that , while localized deterioration must have taken place , there is also ample evidence of the activities of the courts of sewers and of individual enterprise by secular landlords . |
| 11 | Adams ' report , one of a long line of studies , expert groups , advisory committees and internal and external task forces that have looked at Super-SARA , declared that the project was still viable if it got an immediate go-ahead . |
| 12 | Dustin was one of a long line of candidates being screen-tested in a ten-minute scene with Katharine Ross . |
| 13 | Designed by Sydney Camm , the Hunter was one of a long line of successful fighting aircraft from the Hawker stable . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Charlemagne was succeeded in 814 by his son Louis the Pious ( Louis I of France ) , the first in a long line of French kings to be crowned at Reims . |
| 16 | It was to be the first in a long line of pay battles that would give her a reputation for being one of the toughest negotiators in the business . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Marina Shipping Ltd v. Laughton ( 1982 ) was one in a long line of cases arising out of attempts by the International Transport Workers Federation ( ITF ) to force ship owners employing cheap labour recruited abroad to pay European standard rates of wages . |
| 19 | 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 … ’ |
| 20 | I think the munich songs are just one in a long line of ‘ sick ’ songs . |
| 21 | A cropped and fitted jacket nips in to show off a neat waist and looks trim with a long line skirt . |
| 22 | Paddy Ashdown , it appeared , was only the most recent of a long line that stretched back way beyond Sarah Keays and Cecil Parkinson . |
| 23 | This case is the most recent in a long line of cases involving the question whether , if the paper owner has no present use for the land , there can be any possession " adverse " to his rights . |
| 24 | Construction of the 12 sun saloons in the English Electric East Works in 1939 — the last of a long line . |
| 25 | However their peace is short-lived when they meet the charming Nick Buckley , the last of a long line of Buckleys inhabiting ‘ End House ’ , which is poised in isolation on a rocky point visible from the hotel . |
| 26 | The retirement of Sergeant Merrey marked the end of another era — not only the departure of a friend and character , but the last of a long line of School Sergeants going back to the appointment of Sgt. Sash in 1888 . |
| 27 | 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 ) . |
| 28 | Islam teaches its adherents that the prophet Mohammed was the last of a long line of prophets who proclaimed the one true God . |
| 29 | Her identity is widely known in the village , but her wishes are respected and her name will not be revealed here She is the last of a long line of illustrious cheesemakers and her regular clients can only hope that she will pass on her expertise to the next generation . |
| 30 | She was the latest of a long line of girlfriends , drawn for the most part from the upper reaches of the aristocracy , who had appeared on his romantic horizon . |