Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [prep] the long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . ’ |
| 3 | They 're not always to be trusted in the long term , you know . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Its site , significantly , is visualized as private ; there are no buildings to be seen in the long perspective to the viewer 's right . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Exceptional victories by the youth XV , the U19s and U21s in recent times will be reflected in the long term . |
| 15 | This species may be recognised by the long rugose disk spinelets , the large apical and oral papillae , and the large adoral shields . |
| 16 | Such enterprises will , however , need to be expanded if the environment and the population are to be protected in the longer term . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | However much Labour may talk about public expenditure , it normally makes such a mess of the economy that there is little benefit to be found in the longer run . |
| 20 | Under RSC Ord 3 , r3 they may be served during the Long Vacation including the month of August . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | But whatever it is we decide to do , it must be continued in the long term . |
| 24 | It seemed plausible that demand management could be continued in the longer term in peacetime , and it fitted in with many of Labour 's goals . |
| 25 | This aid would also have to be continued in the longer term in order to totally eradicate certain diseases . |
| 26 | Begin the list with the projects that have been waiting to be finished for the longest period of time . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Full advantage had to be taken of the long daylight hours of midsummer and much of the ground could only be reached on foot . |
| 29 | This also enables any eventual profit to be kept in the long term , avoiding the problem that if it is retained , any eventual surplus would have to go back to the borrower . |
| 30 | Pétain was also a disciple of attrition , but in an entirely different sense from Joffre and Haig with their inhumanly simple calculations that the Germans could be beaten in the long run through losing man for man , by virtue of the Allied superiority in cannon fodder . |