Example sentences of "[adv] in [art] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | Remember to make the shape of your mount echo that of the letter you are designing — for example , if you want to create a capital I , it will fit far better in a long , thin , rectangular mount , say 22.5 × 15cm ( 9 × 6in ) , with an aperture 5cm ( 2in ) smaller all round , than a circular frame or mount . |
| 2 | fixations might do better in the long run by holding out until you 've got enough cash to buy the real thing . |
| 3 | The resale potential of other Anatolian items is less clear , but it seems probable that the finer quality Dobags and the more tribal items , whether village or nomadic , will fare better in the long term than " furnishing " or " decorative " rugs . |
| 4 | They argue , on pragmatic grounds , that judges must sometimes act as if people had legal rights , because acting that way will serve society better in the long run . |
| 5 | Is the community so anxious that its judges not behave as pragmatists that this " noble lie " will help him serve its true interests better in the long run ? |
| 6 | Buying a soon-to-be-obsolete car can be a saving in the short term , but not necessarily in the long term . |
| 7 | Well , especially in a long road like this . |
| 8 | His record as an MP , especially in the Long Parliament ( 1640–8 ) suggests someone extremely active , and useful to the House , but not of major political importance . |
| 9 | Each was temporarily leader of his respective peer-group and power-base , but each had less than unanimous backing , especially in the long term . |
| 10 | In many cases these activities have promoted gender-neutral policies and perhaps in the long term will have a major impact on some aspects of gender bias in schools . |
| 11 | Her looks and her vibrant personality had always won the day for her — but perhaps in the long run that had n't been a good thing , because now those weapons had failed her she was floundering , rudderless . |
| 12 | So in the long run I think his objectivity may have helped a little bit . |
| 13 | Well , you may win , but your counterparts will think they 've lost and so in the long run will you . |
| 14 | So in the long term , the entourages of the great proved effective as social melting-pots . |
| 15 | So in the long run , first of all we saved ourselves an initial risk outlay of a quarter of a million pounds on legal fees , the second thing is that we now have that common land back under control , and within ten years we will recoup all of that money . |
| 16 | It is only in the long run that a match gradually emerges between what is seen to happen and what is said to happen . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The good effects of war can be detected only in the long term , and there were bad effects too , while the consequences of coalition for the party were immediate and almost wholly negative . |
| 19 | After 1772 the " turnpike mania " settled down in a long steady progress to an eventual 22,000-mile peak in 1836 , accelerated only in the widespread speculative investment booms of the early 1790s , 1809 – 12 and the mid 1820s . |
| 20 | The idle flap of the hand again , and round the next corner was another tank , then a third , hull down in the long grass like old dogs sunning themselves on a lazy day . |
| 21 | I sat down in the long grass , puzzled to understand my weakness . |
| 22 | Once inside in the long , dimly-lit corridor she withdrew a photostat copy of the invoice from her pocket and handed it to him . |
| 23 | ‘ Doping makes people so distrustful that if someone jumps two cms longer in a long jump , a cm higher in the pole-vault or lifts 2.5 kgs more than I do , the accusation is there . ’ |
| 24 | Strangely , she was no longer in the long room with the little door , but outside in a wood . |
| 25 | I hid myself away in the long grass at the edge of the wood near Sykes Farm . |
| 26 | Nevertheless in the long term , if the policy is pursued rigorously enough , many economists argue that it is the most effective way of keeping inflation under control . |
| 27 | That 's one corporate plan that ca n't win , not in the long term . |
| 28 | Where government introduces measures that exclude people from resources long since used by them , the people come to view the project as a zero-sum game ( Thomson in Glantz , ed. 1977 ) , where their loss is exactly others ' gain , and conservation will not in the long run lead to an increase in their incomes . |
| 29 | One does not get a sense of a strong need for support from parents to children to be reciprocated — certainly not in the short term , and possibly not in the long term either . |
| 30 | Not in the long run . |