Example sentences of "be [verb] [prep] the long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The more you manage to re-educate your eating habits , stretch and tone your body , the more likely you are to continue in the long term . |
| 2 | As my hon. Friend rightly said , the construction of the 08 , the fourth boat , is currently under way and authorities have been given for the long lead items . |
| 3 | Published by the Menil Foundation with Mercator Fonds and Thames & Hudson ( £45 ) , it is aimed at a wider readership , but it will be the essential essay for all students keen to learn how a great scholar 's opinions have been honed over the long years spent in the consideration of Magritte 's art . |
| 4 | The growth hormone locus has also been mapped on the long arm of chromosome 17 , at 17q 22–24 , close to the BRCA1 gene in breast and ovarian cancer families . |
| 5 | I am here , Lord Frith , I am running through the long grass . |
| 6 | He saw the indiscreet movement of the CI5 man across the road , and guessed that the man 's attention had been distracted after the long night 's watch , and he had missed the car 's departure . |
| 7 | Strict glycaemic control by using portable insulin pumps can arrest progression towards diabetic nephropathy , but this method 's safety must be considered in the long term . |
| 8 | They 're not always to be trusted in the long term , you know . ’ |
| 9 | NSPCC brass FIVE young brass players will be appearing in the Long Room of Eaton Hall next week to raise money for the NSPCC . |
| 10 | It must be admitted that the famous mould may well have strayed upstairs from the cultures on the floor below , and is perhaps to be included in the long list of profitable discoveries which arose from a lapse in maintaining the highest standards of laboratory practice . |
| 11 | The main changes will be seen in the long run when you look back , so it is sometimes useful to have photographs taken of yourself just before , and just after , your course of lessons . |
| 12 | Its site , significantly , is visualized as private ; there are no buildings to be seen in the long perspective to the viewer 's right . |
| 13 | For example , the mixed representation of a brief account , , will be parsed into agree the count , because the first four phonemes can be matched to the long word agree and because there is a possible parsing into words of the remaining phonemes . |
| 14 | A superb outing of this kind can be had on the long Nantlle ridge — comprising six miles and six mountains of excellent high-level walking . |
| 15 | So in December 1177 in exchange for 15,000 livres angevines ( roughly £4000 ) and forty pack animals — clearly intended to be used for the long pilgrimage to Jerusalem — Henry acquired the whole county of La Marche . |
| 16 | Sixth , there had been a very close bond established between the children which the justices felt very strongly should be preserved in the long term . |
| 17 | Presumably it is an overreaction to a number of points that we have noted : that no logical guarantee of the soundness of our abductive sense can be provided ; that our substantive conception of reality or of the aim of inquiry may itself be revisable ; that while experience might lead us to abandon a theory with some confidence , proper acceptance should be postponed to the long run — true theories are survivors . |
| 18 | Cooperation seems to be less of an immediate necessity with market-determined exchange rates , but coordination of national policies still seems desirable if conflict and economic stagnation are to be avoided in the long run . |
| 19 | Monetarists argue that increases in money supply have a large effect on aggregate demand ( certainly in the long run ) because the L curve is inelastic and investment is responsive to changes in interest rates ; but that this increase in aggregate demand will simply be reflected in the long run in higher prices : the AS curve is vertical . |
| 20 | Exceptional victories by the youth XV , the U19s and U21s in recent times will be reflected in the long term . |
| 21 | This species may be recognised by the long rugose disk spinelets , the large apical and oral papillae , and the large adoral shields . |
| 22 | I see Blackburn 's £3.6million man Alan Shearer again being part of Graham 's thoughts , which at the moment seem to be pointing towards the long ball game . |
| 23 | This led to a two mile chase on my bicycle following his refusal to answer my questions and a final on the deserted marshes where large quantities of tobacco had to be recovered from the long grass in a grey December dawn . |
| 24 | Our efforts will be judged in the long term by our success with children who are already in ordinary schools but whose needs are not being met , for whatever reason . |
| 25 | Under RSC Ord 3 , r3 they may be served during the Long Vacation including the month of August . |
| 26 | Coffee will be served in the long drawing-room and , if you are to battle with me , may I remind you that it is to be in private . |
| 27 | Answer guide : The shortage of resources , although an effective short-term constraint , can invariably be overcome in the long term as the firm can take action to eliminate the constraint . |
| 28 | But whatever it is we decide to do , it must be continued in the long term . |
| 29 | About 50mm depth should be left between the long walls and garage floor , for the covering planks to rest on when the pit is not in use . |
| 30 | Full advantage had to be taken of the long daylight hours of midsummer and much of the ground could only be reached on foot . |