Example sentences of "[art] long line " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another , proposed by Guy Ragland Phillips , is the Belinus Line , the longest line which could be plotted on the British mainland , from Lee-on-Solent in the south to Inverhope in the north . |
| 2 | Giles Hawick was a beautifully put together man , something over six foot without a spare ounce of flesh anywhere , the long lines in the face being particularly strong . |
| 3 | With the mother and father , whose knowledge of English was vestigial , he managed rather better , but longed for a rest from mental agility , for a bed to sleep away the exhaustion of his night and a day on the long Lines of Communication from England . |
| 4 | But what one chiefly saw was a landscape patterned by the long lines of vine running up to the wooded hilltops , a supremely domesticated landscape . |
| 5 | the latest , but far from the last , of the long lines of pits which have transformed the glades and villages of Sherwood Forest , and the Dukeries , into one of the greatest coalfields in the whole of Great Britain . |
| 6 | European Alexandria lingers on in the Italianate architecture , the long lines of balconies along the seafront , in the old shop signs in French and Arabic , in the Greek cafes like Trianon 's and Pastroudis with their air of idleness and neglect , and in old-fashioned pensions like the Hotel Normandie . |
| 7 | Helen leaned over my shoulder and gazed at the long lines of boy scouts , girl guides , ex-servicemen , with half the population of the town packed on the pavements , watching . |
| 8 | Through the glass I could see the long lines of blue moving away down the street and I could still hear the shouts of the corporal . |
| 9 | The long lines on either side of his face — starving dimples , she used to call them — deepened . |
| 10 | From where I stand I can see through the half-open doors of the ward , the long lines of white beds , the charts , the flowers on the central table , whose scent fails to mask the smell of antiseptics as flowers on the bench must have failed to hide the smell of humanity from the judge in less sterile days . |
| 11 | Michael Meacher , Labour 's employment spokesman , last night said : ‘ The formula is not just another in the long line of bureaucratic barriers which prevent the unemployed claiming benefit . |
| 12 | In an amiable parody of an interview he once heard being given by Sir Adrian Boult , Gould spelt out the attitude to recording of that older generation : roughly , ‘ I do n't mind doing the occasional recording , old boy — not everyone gets to concerts — and we 'll do our best , but I do n't want any ‘ patching ’ , we must keep the long line intact ’ . |
| 13 | As a master of the long line himself , Karajan would probably have endorsed some of Boult 's sentiments ( many of Karajan 's recordings have been put down more or less in a series of single takes ) , but he would also have agreed to an extent with Gould that ‘ good splices ’ can also ‘ build good lines ’ . |
| 14 | THE tower of the Danish Church at Well Close stood sharp and clear against the clouds , and a line of rooftops and gables marked the long line of Cable Street and Rosemary Lane leading to Little Tower Hill . |
| 15 | The long line of hedge bordering the next field was a good fifty yards away . |
| 16 | John the Baptist , as the last in the long line of Old Testament prophets , called upon the nation to repent to prepare for the Kingdom whose coming was imminent ( Matt. |
| 17 | She caught worldwide attention last year when she claimed in a defence of prostitution charges that she could only satisfy a sex addiction by selling herself to the long line of men . |
| 18 | We had to fix the unfortunate bird to the creance , place it on its perch in a field , pay out the long line , walk to the place where we wanted it to fly to and hold our gloved hands out with a piece of meat . |
| 19 | ‘ He was a natural , ’ says Williams , continuing in the long line of those men and women of experience and the most foxy intelligence , who could not analyse Burton 's gift any more clearly than that . |
| 20 | Unfortunately it is too far south to be properly seen from Britain or the northern United States , but when high up it is truly impressive , and it is easy to conjure up the picture of a scorpion from the long line of bright stars , with the ‘ head ’ and the ‘ sting ’ . |
| 21 | Authority — ‘ that egg of misery and oppression ’ as the doctor has it — is the norm in the long line of historical adventures drawing for material on the extensively recorded history of the navy in the Napoleonic Wars ; but the outstanding writers in the genre look round widely from this stance . |
| 22 | Yet they fought on , trying to defend the long line which was the border of their dominion in northern France , much as their predecessors had done in Aquitaine in the 1370s . |
| 23 | Two Tyne class and the last of the long line of Aruns had also gone to their new stations . |
| 24 | The uniformed officer did n't appreciate the joke and pushed Robinson out onto the landing where , already , a steady file of men were spilling from their cells , joining the long line on either side of the landing as they made their way to the toilets . |
| 25 | ‘ The Dragon first ! ’ shouted Melanie , so they joined the long line snaking round the barriers . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | The name Venturous was a break from the long line of traditional names for Cutters as it had never previously been used . |
| 28 | He raised that study to the rank of a single comprehensive and independent science , and thus deserved to be reverently regarded by posterity as the eponymous hero of all the long line of later scholars " . |
| 29 | Beyond the long line of windows , past the Conservatory and the Laburnum Walk , they came to the winter-bound Pleasure Garden where yellow jasmine crawled over a tree stump , hamamelis , the wych-hazel shrub , thrust out golden hedgehog flowers along its leafless branches , and the stream coming from the kitchen garden — a winter river now — hurried into the culvert that carried it on into the baby lake in the field outside the Pleasure Garden . |
| 30 | This significant alteration in the nature of the Muftilik suggests the need for a reconsideration of the Turkish historical tradition regarding the establishment of the institution , to explore the possibility that Fahreddin Acemi was in a very real sense the first of the long line of Muftis . |