Example sentences of "upon a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reason , one might think , for the wary traveller to duck behind the luggage lockers , but no , the assembly listens rapt as John Berger ( for it is he ) embarks upon a long yarn about two Italian peasants who meet at a Communist Party dance . |
| 2 | The Old Testament kings had been initiated with unction ; and in any case the Carolingians , unlike their Merovingian predecessors amongst the Franks , could not depend for their sacrality upon a long royal genealogy stretching back into the past . |
| 3 | The youth work practice which began to emerge in the 1870s and 1880s built upon a long tradition of mainly religious charitable activity among young people , usually in connection with Sunday schools , temperance societies and the Band of Hope . |
| 4 | Matthew 's theory drew upon a long tradition of applying evolutionism to the problems of biogeography begun by the first Darwinians . |
| 5 | While ‘ planning ’ in these various guises seemed to find its moment in the Second World War , it also drew upon a long evolution of social and political thought which stretched back to before the Great War . |