Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [adj] [prep] [art] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | But this had been an attempt to land on the Spanish Main , and the Spanish felt much less concerned about the long string of small islands in the Lesser Antilles at the eastern end of the Caribbean . |
| 2 | However , their low cost ( Notes retails at around £400 , WFWG at £149 ) and ease of implementation make them a viable proposition for the small company , and will probably result in their becoming much more influential in the long term . |
| 3 | Indeed , public education about the nature of legal problems and the role of lawyers in solving them might be much more effective in the long run . |
| 4 | Hofstede 's recent book proposes that the Far East Manager is much more concerned with a long time horizon for the team than is the European or American manager . |
| 5 | Chesarynth concentrated on the maths of it so hard that for a long time she ignored the awareness tugging at her subconscious . |
| 6 | At night we were visited by entrepreneurs in sarongs and Muslim black felt " peci " hats , who knocked so quietly that for a long time we thought they were merely underpowered geckos . |
| 7 | Diploma Plc , holding company for a portfolio of electronic and construction products businesses , reporting pre-tax profits up 225% at £8.1m , says that industry may be broadly much weaker following a long and debilitating recession , but Diploma has maintained a good level of investment in people as well as plant , and has generally considered the recent years as an opportunity . |
| 8 | Some people say there is more sniffing in the summer , but perhaps it 's just more obvious in the long summer evenings . |
| 9 | This kind of summary is possible with a relatively short case , but you will find that it becomes progressively more difficult with the longer ones . |
| 10 | That kind of spontaneous effort , by all kinds of people in this country , will be just as important in the long run as what Governments do . |
| 11 | Arguably more important in the long run was the illusion of grandeur in the monetary field . |
| 12 | Rather more important in the long term were the changes which could be initiated by such widespread forest clearance . |
| 13 | Such accidentally created fires are usually most devastating after a long dry period when the organic content of the litter and soil is experiencing moisture deficiency and the presence of dry kindling provides a good fuel supply . |
| 14 | ’ And the boy in Toulouse or Poitiers or Bordeaux or Rouen , still secretly anxious about the long journey to the capital , feels his head filling up with snobbery and lust . |
| 15 | I 've scoured the the technical professional press to find out if there is some general statement which sums up what sustainability means , and the one which I 've seen most commonly referred to , I think , and the government has used it in this way , is a requirement to ensure the needs of the present generation are met in a way which does not prejudice future generations , now I do not believe that a properly conceived and located new settlement is any less sustainable in the long term that other forms of urban growth , and by properly conceived I 've got to say I believe that to mean properly balanced er form of development for the new settlement , and I think I would say that new settlements have usually been proposed because continued infilling , like the the normal forms of accommodating further development requirements , infill , and peripheral development , have been determined in York context not to be sustainable , the sorts of issues which arise as a result erm of additional development in or on the edge of York and the surrounding villages , problems of additional congestion , loss of green space in towns , loss of employment opportunities and so on . |
| 16 | Kepler Wessels , a veteran of 24 Tests for Australia , led a team of debutantes into the field after winning the toss , and saw West Indies off to a flyer with Haynes and Phil Simmons , still not convincing in the longer fame , punching holes in the off side whenever Donald and Pringle overpitched. business as usual , we thought — but we were wrong . |
| 17 | In other words , it is a moot point as to whether the effort to develop interval and ratio scale measures is really worth it , especially since it underplays the importance of counting and categorisation as perfectly respectable procedures which are possibly more beneficial in the long run . |
| 18 | still further distant in the long darkness |
| 19 | Consultation takes time : policy-writing by a few is more speedy , but also less effective in the long term for reasons which are suggested later . |
| 20 | This , it was now increasingly argued , would be far more effective in the long run than any amount of sharp practice . |
| 21 | Training based on encouragement and praise is likely to prove far more effective in the longer term . |
| 22 | We 've got to recognise , if there was no following policy , any thief or drunk driver only has to put their toe down and drive away at speed , comfortable that police wo n't follow them and that is far more dangerous in the long run for the public . |
| 23 | Considered even more critical in the long term was the defection from the party 's ranks of Bernabe Buscayno , a former close confidant of exiled communist leader José Maria Sison . |
| 24 | This is even more apparent in the long necked birds such as the heron , which has one special vertebrae in the middle of its neck which enables it to thrust its head suddenly at unsuspecting fish . |