Example sentences of "[noun] [art] long [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Through a gap a long wave of treetops stretched to the horizon , in the middle distance the smoke was coming and going in irregular bursts as they had seen it do once before from Ridgery Steep . |
| 2 | In Smolensk guberniia a long list of bridges , points , and crossings had been blown up in military action . |
| 3 | There is in Scotland a long tradition of a lawyer acting on a ‘ speculative ’ basis , whereby the lawyer will be paid the normal fee if the case is successful , but if the case is lost he or she will be paid nothing . |
| 4 | The date , and the exiled place of composition of its authors , suggests tellingly that the situation with which it attempts to deal is the phenomenon of fascism which seemed to have stopped in its tracks the long march of the progress of reason , and its liberating enlightenment ideals , of which Marxism was the fullest political development . |
| 5 | There were memories which , he suspected , would be even more insistent than Kerrison marking out with his cartilage knife on the milk-white body the long line of the primary incision . |
| 6 | In the pre-1965 period a long run of higher than average precipitation allowed the spread northward of rain-fed cultivation , dominated by millet , and at the same time the increased populations placed more pressure on the vegetation for fuelwood . |
| 7 | The choreographer can make an overall rhythm fur a long phrase of music and within it shorter phrases . |
| 8 | In the Ministry of State Properties a long memorandum of October 1855 brought together information from the provinces concerning the abject condition of state-owned peasants . |
| 9 | It 's reasonably straightforward as a recording task ( discussed in the next chapter ) and it gives an ephemeral occasion a longer lease of life . |
| 10 | The priest completed his circuit and disappeared behind the altar screen , leaving in his wake a long trail of incense which gradually mounted into the roof and lost itself among the ostrich eggs and silver censers suspended there . |
| 11 | Ken Delve charts the long history of 231 Operational Conversion Unit — Canberra tutors since 1951 . |
| 12 | Some companies now offer career break schemes to give both women and men a longer period of time off — often up to five years . |
| 13 | He also put on sale a long pamphlet of his own , National Socialism Now , to justify his secession from Mosley and the new course he had chosen . |
| 14 | Those who are inclined towards reform reversal , place much more weight on the way the long dominance of the Conservative LDP party allowed it to pack the Supreme Court with its own nominees , so that the independence of the Judiciary is a myth . |
| 15 | For example , in A the longest side of the shelf measures 6m , the shortest sides ( from front to back ) 2m . |
| 16 | There is in English a long tradition of Horatian poetics . |
| 17 | On horseback the long reach of the swordsman is supported by his horse , enabling him to use with great effect a weapon that might be cumbersome on foot . |
| 18 | The Dictionary of National Biography concurs with Jowett and gives Smith the longest entry of any pure mathematician . |
| 19 | In France the Third Republic inherited from the old monarchy and the Second Empire a long tradition of such support for Catholic missions in the Near East and China and showed itself as willing as its predecessors to shoulder what it felt to be its obligations in this respect . |
| 20 | Are the present problems unusual or has the client a long history of similar difficulties ? |