Example sentences of "[modal v] [prep] the long term " in BNC.
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| 1 | All this must in the long term benefit both clients and contractors alike . ’ |
| 2 | 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 ’ . |
| 3 | ‘ They are anxious that they should not go on running a system which may in the long term be at a loss , ’ he said . |
| 4 | But any solution that involves disconnecting activity from true values may in the long term take an even greater toll . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 ? |
| 9 | It will in the longer term be recognised as such and very much in ‘ the furtherance of all Scottish interests ’ . |