Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [art] longer " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the budget worsens after revenue-yielding tariffs have been reduced , governments may not be able to wait for the longer term trade gains to emerge to replace the lost revenue . |
| 2 | If they want to go for a longer period , a key worker would go out with them . ’ |
| 3 | The Gold Ninety Account is a very high interest ninety day notice account for the longer term investor . |
| 4 | At the 1890 Convention of Local Phonograph Companies in Chicago , delegates asked for a longer cylinder with a section specifically set aside for an announcement , but this did not come about . |
| 5 | Entering and leaving conversation , bidding for a longer turn , refusing without appearing rude , changing the topic , are all notoriously difficult for foreign learners : tasks for which the language classroom , where turns are patiently organized and controlled by the teacher , has hardly prepared them . |
| 6 | The free Trade Agreement will do the trick … a situation in which the old-fashioned Unionist intransigence which served Britain so well in the past will also be outdated as no longer so convenient to imperialism . |
| 7 | Salt had recovered from her first surprise and was about to launch into a longer attack . |
| 8 | Interestingly , women 's wishes were more frequently considered with the longer section 3 than section 2 admissions ( 15 of 17 cases compared with 15 of 23 cases ) . |
| 9 | However , when cells were transfected with the longer N-Oct 3 cDNA ( Figure 3a , lane 6 , Fig. 3b plasmid IV ) there was an inverse intensity of the two N-Oct 5 bands . |
| 10 | One of the major criticisms that is made of senior management is its unwillingness to let go of the reins of an organisation , to delegate routine tasks and to concentrate upon the longer term . |
| 11 | It can be limited across the whole country or across wide areas liable to suffer in the longer term ( for example , on all permeable soils such as on chalk , limestone , sand or sandstone ) . |
| 12 | Bipeds evolved larger digestive tracts which one would normally expect to find in a longer , heavier stomach cavity in front of the hips , which would present anatomical problems in balancing . |
| 13 | As he said , it makes some criticism of the European dimension , but in paragraph 8 headed ’ Europe ’ it also says : ’ While local government structure in the UK can not be determined by the nature of European structural funds and the case for regional authorities with power over service delivery has not been made out , the European dimension must nonetheless be considered in the longer term . ’ |
| 14 | The Basle exchange too , with a turnover only a seventh that of Zurich , may not survive in the longer term if Swiss Bank Corporation , its biggest trader , decides to pull out . |
| 15 | As well as determining the information needed now and in the near future , some regard must be given to the difficult task of trying to foresee information needs in the longer term ( Land , 1982 ) . |
| 16 | Even in these circumstances the approach provided a deep insight into the information needs of the organisation , and revealed a considerable number of potential improvements , some of which were implemented in the course of the study and others that were addressed in the longer term . |
| 17 | For a start , it allows spreading to be carried over a longer period during the winter months ( Table 1 ) . |
| 18 | Before Antony Licata styled the alternative look , dashes of golden copper lights were added to the longer areas at the top and sides . |
| 19 | The charge that higher education has over a longer period contributed to an anti-industrial ethos among the educated classes in Britain has been laid by Wiener ( 1981 ) and countered in different ways by Sanderson ( 1972 ) who points to manifold examples of involvement with industry , and Shattock ( 1987 ) who tends to lay the blame elsewhere , at the door of government and industry itself . |
| 20 | To save time , I determined to cut straight across the desert to Afdam instead of returning by the longer route we had come by . |
| 21 | Some were more active than any predecessor against some particular organism , and some had special merits in use , such as working when given by mouth , or acting for a longer period than usual . |
| 22 | If social life is seen as no longer ideally ordered but as made up of every-day material practices , and painting is part and parcel of social life , then painting should be made up of similar practices . |
| 23 | The whole procedure by 1988 was officially seen as no longer dealing adequately with the issues , as inflexible , slow , costly and in need of review ( see Department of Trade and Industry 1988c ) . |
| 24 | Corners can be cut on flowers and remember , the flowers at the reception are going to be seen for a longer time than those in the church . |
| 25 | It was incorporated into the longer Carolingian prologue . |
| 26 | Fuller justice to these topics , as well as the ape language experiments and various glottogonic theories , is to be done in a longer study . ) |
| 27 | She says in the longer term there are substantial benefits from returning organic matter to the soil . |
| 28 | Although Wilson was undoubtedly sympathetic to the WEA he left East Suffolk on appointment as Secretary for Education in Shropshire and was succeeded by Leslie Missen who , at that time , knew little about the WEA and the discussions with the LEA had to be framed within a longer time-scale than Jacques had originally planned . |
| 29 | It is usually closed after a limited period , whereas the underwriting of a rights issue , especially where the rights issue is conditional on the success of the offer ( because the outcome of the offer is not guaranteed ) , may result in a longer underwriting commitment period and consequently higher underwriting costs . |
| 30 | This increase , however , needs to be seen in a longer time-scale . |