Example sentences of "[subord] [prep] [art] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | A commonly held example of such an error comes not from neuroscience but from genetics , where for a long time there was a rather simple-minded assumption that the physiology and behaviour of an organism ( its phenotype ) could be arbitrarily divided into two components , one given by the genes , the other by the environment . |
| 2 | He watched their departure through a spreading mist , and when the last car had gone and the avenue was silent except for the long sigh of grass , he allowed himself to be taken back to his room . |
| 3 | But it has been a rough 18 months for him and there is still a gauntness about him , even if he does claim he has never felt fitter and that his swing is closer to being ‘ on track ’ than for a long time . |
| 4 | David Boole of Jaguar Cars describes the medium-term as healthier than for a long time' . ’ |
| 5 | In time Michael too came to accept their centrality , although for a long time he asked when he could go home to his parents . |
| 6 | Nevertheless conditions in which limited but often intense urban nationalism would flourish were being created and would provide a catalyst of future revolution ; although for a long time fears that educated Vietnamese would rise up against their French masters were certainly not encouraged by the numbers of children in school . |
| 7 | Interest rates Short-term management of the economy has meant that governments manipulate interest rates to ensure reelection , rather than with the long term interests of the economy in mind . |
| 8 | Digital HDTV was always a threat , albeit in the long term . |
| 9 | Notice that Caesar never mentions the Druids except in the long ethnographic digression of Book 6. z 1–28 . |
| 10 | In September 1939 he discovered to his cost that a communist ethic , although in the long term doubtless " inevitable " , was at that historical moment " impossible . |
| 11 | It was a faculty common to all good sailors , the essential extra that enabled them to meet the seas whatever the conditions so that their craft ran straight rather than in the long zig-zags of the helmsman imprisoned by the compass and only reacting to the swing of its needle . |
| 12 | However , the prospects for a single currency , other than in the long run , seem remote . |
| 13 | The cadence of the prose in the short version often emphasises meaning with a more telling precision than in the long version . |
| 14 | I think that I am probably a bit sharper in the burst than over the long distance but during the two ‘ B ’ games I felt really sharp and I have been working on my speed and strength with the SRU fitness specialist , David McLean ’ . |
| 15 | I was suddenly terrified , as if from a long distance away I had seen my family poised on the edge of a crumbling cliff , unaware and smiling . |
| 16 | It will be interesting to see if in the long term the claims that this product prevents damage to valve seats etc. from using leadfree fuel are true . |
| 17 | Even if in the long run ostlers and grooms become garage mechanics and assembly-line workers , this may take some time and the social dislocations could be very severe . |
| 18 | On the other hand , if in the long run Bavaria or Catalonia were to join Scotland in a wish to attain full membership of the Community in their own right , is it evident that their rights are so very much weaker than those of Luxembourg or Denmark or in due course other candidates like Lithuania or Estonia ? |
| 19 | imply a steady state system or over a long term and if over the long term the rate of addition of material to the sea is equalled by the rate of removal . |
| 20 | Sybase has done very well in financial markets and companies in Wall Street and the City , mostly because for a long time it could offer facilities such as triggers and stored procedures that Oracle could n't . |
| 21 | Sybase has done very well in financial markets and companies in Wall Street and the City , mostly because for a long time it could offer facilities such as triggers and stored procedures that Oracle could n't . |
| 22 | They say she was forced out of the National Health service because of no long term care beds . |
| 23 | The cardinal points of her compass card were friendship with Great Britain ( partly because of traditional and sentimental reasons and partly because of a long coastline ) and watchfulness towards her neighbours , Austria-Hungary and France . |
| 24 | But chimpanzees do not breed well in captivity , partly because of a long pregnancy and childhood , and trapping them in the wild is expensive and wasteful enough to put them at risk of extinction . |
| 25 | At its surface Mercury resembles the Moon : atmosphereless , devoid of volatiles , and still bearing ancient craters because of a long history of geological quiescence . |
| 26 | Because of the long gestation and lactation periods , the interval between calving is usually at least two or three years . |
| 27 | Umbilical hose systems sound expensive , if only because of the long sections of pipe needed . |
| 28 | Because of the long housing period very close attention at lambing was possible resulting in very few losses . |
| 29 | Land cultivation in the Auvergne uplands is extremely limited because of the long cold period in winter when sward re-establishment would be difficult , a dry summer climate , and because of thin soils which are anyway generally quite fertile . |
| 30 | This survey provides a particularly rich source of data because of the long time span covered . |