Example sentences of "[art] long [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 's two exhausted after the long journey to go shopping.She just wants to go home . |
| 2 | For example , as we noted , the definition of pragmatics as concerned with encoded aspects of context may be less restrictive than it seems at first sight ; for if in general ( a ) principles of language usage have as corollaries principles of interpretation , and ( b ) principles of language usage are likely in the long run to impinge on grammar ( and some empirical support can be found for both propositions ) , then theories about pragmatic aspects of meaning will be closely related to theories about the grammaticalization of aspects of context . |
| 3 | IMHO it is a much better idea in the long run to post the material to an anonymous FTP location rather than wasting valuable Internet bandwidth E-Mailing the material around the list ! |
| 4 | If there is an existing pipe organ and it is of good quality , it may prove to be more economical in the long run to restore rather than replace it . |
| 5 | The project aims to rectify this omission for England over the period 1650-1914 by the construction of national rent index , and then to investigate two further problems : a regional breakdown of the index to see of there was a space-related differentiated land market ; and secondly to focus attention on three periods of outstanding agricultural depression within the long run to see whether there was a time-related differentiation . |
| 6 | Would it be more sensible in the long run to buy a second-hand television rather than to keep renting one ? |
| 7 | If your household is likely to expand in any way it might be cheaper in the long run to buy a larger model than the more modest affair you had thought of first . |
| 8 | But we may expect in the long run to become as comfortable in the new clothes as we were in the old . |
| 9 | Since form and function are related to living things , when the information in an illustration is incorrect it can take more work in the long run to get the thing to look right . |
| 10 | Although a bit of a nuisance , it is usually cheaper and safer in the long run to run both systems together until you are 101 per cent sure that your new computer is ready and able to handle what you want it to . |
| 11 | But customers who deal direct are cheaper in the long run to process than those who buy through branches . |
| 12 | Nevertheless its three principal currents — Alfonsine monarchism , Carlism and undisguised fascism — were in the long run to play an important role in the destruction of Spanish democracy and the creation of the dictatorship that replaced it . |
| 13 | The projects were to be of real and lasting value , and able in the long run to pay for themselves . |
| 14 | Penelope went over to the long mirror to survey the general effect of her dress . |
| 15 | Word was passed down the long column to close up , and to be ready to make a dash for the ford . |
| 16 | The long struggle to reclaim what was theirs has made them cold and deadly . |
| 17 | But the long revolution to share out caring responsibilities , the re-skilling of work and the training of women , and the provision of facilities for finance and marketing of their own products , looks like being a very long one indeed . |
| 18 | You put that short one over the long ones to make the skirts stand out . ’ |
| 19 | In the long battle to combat the headbanging tendency of the far left , Labour has become a sterile shell : sanitised of socialism , anaesthetised against activism . |
| 20 | While people down south are still lying out in the sun and enjoying their holidays , up here we have to start planning well ahead for the long winter to come . |
| 21 | The vole had eaten seeds and nuts and because it sensed the long winter to come it had eaten a little of everything : acorns , hazels , haws , hips , sweet catkins , sour apples , sharp sloes , soft blackberries . |
| 22 | And they did ; all flattened and crouched , creeping low in the grass ; quite unlike the sprightly reed with its flashy habit of fanning out the long tail to show off white outer tail feathers . |
| 23 | It seems to be working … more families are already making the long trip to see husbands and fathers |
| 24 | Sharpe threw the Dragoon 's blade off then desperately backswung the long sword to meet the second man 's charge . |
| 25 | She felt constrained to sit and light-headed when she rose and crossed the long boards to fold back the shutters and open the windows wide . |
| 26 | Silently , I climbed back up to the road and lay in the long grass to watch what happened . |
| 27 | The practical reason why it is wise in the long term to give much more careful thought to river and wetland management is that drainage can contain , profoundly , the seeds of its own destruction . |
| 28 | This way the buyer need not fear a situation in which the supplier will run out of essential stock , and the supplier can plan on the long term to optimise his conditions of supply . |
| 29 | If a system of government is , in the long term to continue to enjoy the broad acquiescence on which , in a democratic society , it stands , it must be sufficiently responsive to the voices of the governed and this is most effectively ensured by the constitution 's providing for the regulation of social affairs at the lowest and most immediate level possible . |
| 30 | Is it cheaper in the long term to buy rather than to hire ? |