Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [prep] the long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At every stage , the media must insist upon its right to investigate and to print public interest stories ; if it is right in its identification of the public interest , it is unlikely to come to harm in the long run . |
| 2 | This spring , however , there really are a few green shoots of recovery , and in a more confident climate , where people are once again prepared to plan for the long term , they could blossom rapidly . |
| 3 | I think the R A F would would clearly be interested in in keeping in touch with what 's going on there , of course the states themselves er the picture is not entirely clear er about er what kind of types are going to emerge in the longer term but we would certainly wish to keep a a close view on what was going on and of course there is a Navy dimension to the harrier replacement as well . |
| 4 | Marx also took from the classical economists the idea that rates of profit are bound to fall in the long term . |
| 5 | Are they likely to contribute to profit in the long term ? |
| 6 | Britain is failing to invest for the long term . |
| 7 | Th the problem with suggestion therapy whether it be hypnosis or group therapy is it does n't tend to last in the longer run after the person stopped going to the group or they have n't seen the the er hypnotist for reinforcement . |
| 8 | Smith contends that such expenditure is functional but contradictory : it serves the structural requirements of capitalism at home and abroad while at the same time destabilising the performance of the economic structure which it seeks to preserve in the long term . |
| 9 | But one morning I came to play and I found that my clubs were not there ( they had been stolen ) I then had to go through the long task of making a claim to the insurance company to try and claim some money to replace the clubs I had lost . |
| 10 | She had begun to pull on the long suede gloves which she had earlier stripped from her beautiful hands . |
| 11 | Some arose from the difficulties of practical implementation , others had to do with the longer term history of state involvement in sexuality . |
| 12 | to ensure that the shorter-term budgets and plans were consistent with where the company wanted to go in the longer run |
| 13 | Planners need to look at the long term provision of locally based day care as well as reviewing current provision in terms of suitability , costs etc . |
| 14 | We can cut money off , let's make some easy quick decisions about cutting money off , let's chop out the arts you could do that on one line easily and I think you have to look at the long term you have to look at what happens in terms of our culture , our civilization if you do do that , how people change and to me it 's about and that was raised last night too about how an saying that they had put a limit on the cost of opera tickets forty pounds , compared |
| 15 | Surprisingly , the ‘ pig ’ graves tended to lie with the long axis pointing north-south and the ‘ sheep ’ graves east-west . |