Example sentences of "[noun] a long [noun] [prep] " 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 | The English climate , having given its clients a long series of warm sunny days , had decided that this must be paid for . |
| 3 | In Smolensk guberniia a long list of bridges , points , and crossings had been blown up in military action . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Relief work and voluntary aid continues , which is what brought truck drivers Dick and Ray a long way from their Oxford homes to deliver important equipment to the struggling hospitals and orphanages . |
| 6 | These cells have their origin a long distance from the sex organs . |
| 7 | If you do much watering by can a long way from a tap , get a matching pair , each holding 2 gallons . |
| 8 | We have also from his pen a long Dialogue with Trypho the Jew . |
| 9 | Phone calls are thoroughly screened ; people have to make appointments a long time in advance . |
| 10 | Charles was taking the job a long way from the safe arena of charitable patronage and ribbon-cutting and into politically dangerous areas , where constitutionally , he ought not to be . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The choreographer can make an overall rhythm fur a long phrase of music and within it shorter phrases . |
| 13 | Toilets a long distance from the classroom and shared with older children |
| 14 | Waterford as highly encouraging — exploration between Kilmeaden and Kilmacthomas found primary gold traces of nearly two ounces per tonne — though this is of course a long way from a commercial proposition . |
| 15 | Arthur flew to London and stayed in the police morgue a long time with the body that he knew as closely as his own , thinking of Fred 's splendid good nature , his tough-mindedness , and his humour about the absurd and even the terrible . |
| 16 | It would offer 26 places each morning and afternoon , saving some families a long trek to Corporation Road and even further afield . |
| 17 | It means they often have to fly the ball a long way in the air with very little run , depending , of course , on where the flag is . |
| 18 | They 've got a fine album and a string of great singles a long way behind them , but the Demonz have yet to have the mass market fawning at their feet , unless you count their brief appearance in the video for ‘ The Bouncer ’ . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Finally I arrived at Ballinasloe , to find the station a long way from the town . |
| 21 | The privilege of addressing the House on a Friday morning and of winning the ballot to present a private Member 's motion is , however , something of a mixed blessing for hon. Members like myself who represent constituencies a long way from London . |
| 22 | A third story details a long punishment in which a child — like parts of Berlin to this day — is compelled to stand absolutely still . |
| 23 | He put his horse and his dog a long way before his wife . ’ |
| 24 | Instead , he gave Carter and his advisers a long talk on how he saw the international situation . |
| 25 | There was throughout his life a long conflict between what may one may call a sort of scientific naturalism in his attitude to the world , and the impulse to hypostatize his ideals , to create out of his ideals erm ideal beings of some kind , and so to worship . |
| 26 | Scenes a long way from the serenity of New College , Oxford , where the Howard League for Penal Reform is hosting a conference examining the nature , causes and treatment of violence . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Nesting on a high ledge a long way above our tent were two lammergeirs — yellow-bellied vultures . |
| 29 | Once I catch a glimpse of the light of a car or maybe a tractor a long way up the valley , and this sees to make my isolation even more profound . |
| 30 | He cited as his favourite book a long novel about Lancashire and the cotton industry , which he referred to occasionally , but the great wealth of British literature was both unknown to him and something in which he clearly had no interest . |