Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [prep] a long line " in BNC.
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| 1 | Area technical maintenance manager Pete Wootton , 32 , revealed that the wage drop was just the latest generous gesture in a long line of good turns . |
| 2 | The more fortunate cluster together , striding out down the windy front past a long line of protesters , the disenchanted who , with banners in support of some unspeakable cause , line the entrance to the building , their passivity guaranteed ( at the poll-tax-payers ' expense ) by half-a-hundred provincial policemen . |
| 3 | It 's another stage in a long line of streamlining with scant regard to customers ’ needs . ’ |
| 4 | She kept trying to tell herself that his was just another face in a long line of faces , but the nearness of him was agonising , and she was forced to face up to a bitter realisation . |
| 5 | This point is discussed further at p104. 5 Defences 5.1 Iniquity In a long line of cases the courts have held that the disclosure of information relating to what was originally termed iniquity will not be restrained : see Gartside v Outram ( 1856 ) 2 LJ Ch 113 , Weld-Blundell v Stephens [ 1920 ] AC 956 ; Initial Services Ltd v Putterill [ 1968 ] 1 QB 396 ; Fraser v Evans [ 1969 ] 1 QB 349 ; Hubbard v Vosper [ 1972 ] 1 All ER 1023 ; Church of Scientology of California v Kaufman [ 1973 ] RPC 635 ; British Steel Corporation v Granada Television Ltd [ 1981 ] 1 All ER 417 ; and Lion Laboratories Ltd v Evans [ 1984 ] 2 All ER 417 . |
| 6 | A group of works by contemporaries , often friends collected by an enthusiastic and discerning individual is always appealing and ken Powell takes a deserved place in a long line of such patrons . |
| 7 | The England manager chose the final moment in a long line of defeats — the eight wicket one-day hammering by Sri Lanka on Saturday — to admit for the first time fundamental policy errors . |
| 8 | I think it was just the final end of a long line of demands that he 'd been making . |
| 9 | She was n't about to become the latest victim in a long line to fall under his spell . |
| 10 | Am I simply the latest victim in a long line ? ’ |