Example sentences of "[art] long [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | How much better in the long run for companies , auditors and regulation generally if auditors would have the courage to make timely representations aimed at a general ruling , in these circumstances , assuming that they have failed to persuade the client not to proceed and that the grounds for an audit qualification are uncertain . |
| 2 | If changes in conditions disrupt the precise replication of parental characters so as to yield hereditary variation , then , providing only that some of it happens to be adaptive , this will suffice in the long run for selection as a cause of adaptive species formations . |
| 3 | The 1909 Act was more important in the long run for its encouragement of urban planning . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ That 's not sour grapes or anything like it more a professional belief in myself that it would have been better in the long run for ME Eithne Browne and probably for Chrissie , too . |
| 6 | Many of the farmer 's wives came in for a mug of tea and perhaps a piece of cake before they set off on the long drive for home . |
| 7 | Ms Nadia Comaneci was still performing on the long bar for Romania , but her gymnastic trainers had already defected to the US . |
| 8 | Claudia looked in the long mirror for the last time , and her breath caught in her throat ; that beautiful bride could n't be her . |
| 9 | The Inbucon Study into Personal Injury Litigation concluded that the three principal causes of delay were : ( 1 ) the medical circumstances of the case ; ( 2 ) the long waits for trials in the Royal Courts of Justice and provincial trial centres , and ( 3 ) a lack of clear or prompt response from the other side . |
| 10 | In Britain , their insignificance was overcome by the long agitation for affiliation to the Labour Party . |
| 11 | However , I think it is Standing Order No. 62(b) which states that a Committee can amend a Bill and change the long title for that purpose . |
| 12 | He was returned to the Long Parliament for Bury with his son Thomas ; however , in 1642 the younger Thomas openly joined the king at Oxford while Henry fled abroad . |
| 13 | With only the staff at Bloomsbury House and their regional offices as the long stop for advice and modest practical assistance , it is not surprising that a high proportion of Kindertransporte veterans , possibly as many as one in ten , found themselves up against the police or other bastions of social authority . |
| 14 | By the mid-1960s the long campaign for ending capital punishment was nearing a climax . |
| 15 | More noteworthy is the declamatory freedom with which rhythms are interpreted — not only in the long solos for the second piano but also when these are accompanied by the most complicated rhythmic canons in the other instrument . |
| 16 | A historical theory must validate itself against a future whose demand , ultimately , is the redemption of the democratic claim buried within the long struggles for and by ‘ the people ’ |
| 17 | If she could get there before the long closure for lunch-hour he would make her up a preparation , and Peony could get it back to her mother and possibly get back again to the harbour for the Swimming Gala . |
| 18 | Between the front seats are the flip-over flap direction selector ( forward for down , back for up ) , the long pumphandle for hydraulically shifting the flaps , and the very neat custom-made over-centre water-rudder retraction lever . |
| 19 | One of the long shots for a wild card are the Kansas City Chiefs , who have to beat Miami on Christmas Eve while others lose . |
| 20 | When the site became available , the University took the opportunity to purchase the long lease for development , both as a public amenity and as accommodation for the Departments of Art History and Music . |
| 21 | She has signed the long lease for the house inland , it will be for both of them , Deo volente , as she would say . |
| 22 | Constitutional change through the popular will , or even the long wait for a head of state 's death , are not concepts with deep roots in African society . |
| 23 | It 's a special plan that enables you to avoid the long wait for medical treatment — but without the high costs of so many private health schemes . |
| 24 | Learner drivers are often frustrated at the long wait for driving tests . |
| 25 | She completed the usual task of washing and scouring the pots and dishes after dinner , and when Mrs Prynn had inspected her work and approved it , she lay down on her narrow bed and began the long wait for darkness — and for Tristram . |
| 26 | At this point the husband , who had not moved once during his wife 's burial — not even during the long wait for the priest — suddenly fainted to the ground and had to have cold water thrown over him . |
| 27 | Meredith felt the memory freeze her bones , remembering how she 'd comforted her paralysed grandmother during the long wait for the ambulance , knowing this was her third heart attack . |
| 28 | ‘ How about you , Mark … . ’ began the top man , his eyes searching the long table for the Englishman . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | The long search for an East German Gorbachev is looking more and more irrelevant . |