Example sentences of "long the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No matter how interesting the music and the dance movements , if the passages are too long the dancer rarely has sufficient stamina to sustain the dance to its proper climax . |
| 2 | If this is noted as 5 mm and the observer 's arm was 600 mm long the angle would be 5 in 600 , its tangent would be 5/600 , thus it would 1/2 . |
| 3 | The popular classes entered on the political scene in France earlier than elsewhere , and the petits bourgeois were long the arbiter of the popular . |
| 4 | Now that names no longer get the tax breaks that were long the market 's main attraction , it is an outdated nonsense . |
| 5 | But then even if they do that and even if they get the franchise , they 're not going to be able to say , we can now hold on to it for five , or seven , years , however long the franchise is going to be , because if another bidder comes along in the meantime and says , we rather like this ourselves , they 'll be thrown off . |
| 6 | She had been too long the creature of thought , and now she had seen . |
| 7 | The longer the system has been able to do this and the longer people have been socialized into accepting the efficacy of the system , the stronger and more enduring the allegiance has been . |
| 8 | The infant retrieves , or witnesses the retrieval of an object from behind A ( say ) three times , after which he watches as the experimenter moves it to place B. On seeing it vanish at B he will go straight back to A. Although the back-to-A error is more likely to be made the longer the delay between hiding at B and allowing search , this is not a memory problem in any simple sense because the infant will return to A even if the object remains visible at B. We find a particularly clear demonstration of this kind of ‘ perseveration ’ in an experiment by Paul Harris in which there were two transparent , lockable boxes as the A and the B location . |
| 9 | Others had not yet paid and the chairman stressed that the longer the delay , the more money would be needed . |
| 10 | It must be provided immediately to have any effect on learning : the longer the delay , the slower the rate of learning . |
| 11 | Although there were no significant differences in the global left ventricular ejection fractions whether patients were treated early or in the third hour , when the global left ventricular ejection fraction measured in these patients was plotted against time and a regression analysis performed , the delay in treatment was significantly related to the global ejection fraction , i.e. the longer the delay to treatment the lower the global ejection fraction . |
| 12 | ( 2 ) That the court 's discretionary jurisdiction to stay criminal proceedings should be exercised very sparingly and only in exceptional circumstances ; that , while the longer the delay was the greater was the likelihood that the prosecution was at fault and that the defendant had suffered prejudice and the less the prosecution could explain the delay the easier it would be to infer fault , the question whether the defendant had discharged the heavy burden of demonstrating that it would be an abuse of the process of the court for the proceedings to continue , was to be considered in the light of all the circumstances without applying shifting burdens of proof ; and that , accordingly , since the district judge had correctly taken into account all the relevant factors , and had made no error as to the burden of proof , there were no grounds on which the High Court judge could have reversed the district judge 's decision not to grant a perpetual stay of the 1989 prosecution ( post , pp. 261B , 264E–F , G–H , 265A–B ) . |
| 13 | Naturally , the longer the delay the more likely it will be that the prosecution is at fault , and that the delay has caused prejudice to the defendant ; and the less that the prosecution has to offer by explanation , the more easily can fault be inferred . |
| 14 | Indeed there is evidence which shows that the longer the delay in seeing a solicitor , the less likely damages will be obtained . |
| 15 | The longer the delay , the more difficult integration becomes . |
| 16 | The longer the problem goes on — and many of my patients have suffered for years — the worse it is likely to get . |
| 17 | The longer the treatment continues , the better the results — but it is heavy on your vet 's time and an appropriately heavy hole will appear in your bank balance ! |
| 18 | Although there is no fundamental objection to life-long medication — many diabetics rely on daily injections of insulin with no prospect of stopping — no drug is without hazard , and the longer the treatment continues , the stronger the case should be for it . |
| 19 | There really is no need to sail more than 300m off the beach ; remember that the further out you sail the longer the swim back in should your equipment break . |
| 20 | The longer the clock runs the more distal the position of the cells . |
| 21 | The higher the dose , the longer the response to CCK-8 . |
| 22 | The longer the overflow record processing time , the more frequently will this not be completed before the next prime-track record is available . |
| 23 | Lord Lane personally rejected the second appeal of the Birmingham Six in January 1988 saying , in words which returned to haunt him : ‘ As with many cases referred by the Home Secretary to the Court of Appeal , the longer the case has gone on , the more this court has been convinced that the jury was correct . ’ |
| 24 | The GATT treaty is already well past its proposed deadline for agreement , and the longer the recession lasts , the bigger the already vast Japanese trade surpluses will grow , and the more strident the complaints of injured parties everywhere will become . |
| 25 | He gave warning that the longer the Council of Ministers waited before taking a decision on the former , the more time trading partners had to change their minds on the latter . |
| 26 | The longer the arrow remained in the wound , the greater the danger of infection . |
| 27 | She knew that the longer the relationship lasted , the more she courted disaster . |
| 28 | Since factors incur their major costs in the first year of dealing with a new client and make their best returns the longer the relationship lasts this is an area they must continue to address . |
| 29 | But the minister pointed out : ‘ The basic fact would seem to be that , the longer the campaign has gone on , fewer people have been prepared to take on the commitments and risks of being part-time soldiers . ’ |
| 30 | It will depend to some extent on the net costs of searching — the lower the search costs , the higher the reservation wage is likely to be and , therefore , the longer the spell of unemployment . |