Example sentences of "[modal v] [prep] the long " in BNC.
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| 1 | All this must in the long term benefit both clients and contractors alike . ’ |
| 2 | The energetic pursuit of these two policies should in the long run ensure a substantial improvement in the employment situation . |
| 3 | The price that an institution ( or a whole country ) might have to pay for success in reversing a particular state of dependency might in the long run not be worth paying . |
| 4 | We believe that a continuation of this activity could in the long term be detrimental to the welfare of their less privileged neighbours , who have to depend on a weekly wage for their survival ’ . |
| 5 | ‘ They are anxious that they should not go on running a system which may in the long term be at a loss , ’ he said . |
| 6 | But any solution that involves disconnecting activity from true values may in the long term take an even greater toll . |
| 7 | Other more ‘ enlightened ’ strategies are possible , and may in the long run prove more profitable . |
| 8 | Nurses and phlebotomists are more willing to comply with universal precautions than the medical profession , whose example may in the long term compromise the safety of other health care workers who are not in a position to assess the risk . |
| 9 | To identify English as peculiarly problematical should not weaken the general defence of humane values in education , and may in the longer run help to strengthen them . |
| 10 | If staff find themselves having to implement policy which they have no part in making , they may have little commitment to it and may in the longer term become alienated . |
| 11 | It will require constant monitoring of the technological situation and may in the longer term necessitate several changes of format to keep pace with changes in storage devices and technique . |
| 12 | In other words , different legal arenas are not entirely severed from each other , and political movements such as the peace movement will have to bear in mind the impact of its legal activities on legal arenas other than those with which it is immediately engaged : for example , does the encouragement of judicial activism by the peace movement , or an invitation to adjudication based on natural law , open floodgates which — although they produce desirable results in the short term — one would in the long term prefer to remain shut ? |
| 13 | Lack of competition is a pre-requisite for the survival of inefficient managements and the pursuit of non-profit objectives , since without some degree of monopoly power failure to maximise profits would in the long run lead to collapse . |
| 14 | Since real output could also change only slowly over time in response to changes in aggregate demand , it followed that the rate of monetary growth would in the long run be correlated with the rate of inflation . |
| 15 | These conventional rules all have one ultimate object : ‘ Their end is to secure that Parliament , or the Cabinet which is indirectly appointed by Parliament , shall in the long run give effect to the will of the power which in modern England is the true political sovereign of the State — the majority of electors or … the nation . ’ |
| 16 | Their end is to secure that Parliament , or the cabinet which is indirectly appointed by Parliament , shall in the long run give effect to the will of that power which in England is the true political sovereign of the state — the majority of the electors . " |
| 17 | Corollaries of this belief are , that evil can not itself create , that it was not in itself created ( but sprang from a voluntary exercise of free will by Satan , Adam and Eve , to separate themselves from God ) , that it will in the long run be annulled or eliminated , as the Fall of Man was redressed by the Incarnation and Death of Christ . |
| 18 | It will in the longer term be recognised as such and very much in ‘ the furtherance of all Scottish interests ’ . |
| 19 | The NCC says that , ‘ unnecessary inputs of fertilisers and pesticides … can in the long run be storing up trouble for the future … ’ |