Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [prep] [art] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | What this illustrates is that , notwithstanding the progress made in the past two years , the reforms in themselves have done little to compensate for the long term underfunding of the NHS . |
| 2 | I 've had three goes at it , and I can tell you that looks are the last thing to be considered ; it 's what 's underneath that matters in the long run . |
| 3 | In those places where there is a delay in substantiation , faith is prepared to wait for a long time at the bar of history . |
| 4 | Given that many of these theories require extremely detailed specifications of grammar rules and lexical entries this has for a long time formed an obstacle to the production of general systems . |
| 5 | This consisted of a long or short shaft with a staple at the end , to which a chain was attached . |
| 6 | You can be sure that some will be heard loud and clear complaining about the long Christmas holidays being taken by other people . |
| 7 | This consists of a long line tied to one perch , which the bird is sitting on , stretching across the field to another perch , up to 120 feet away . |
| 8 | This derives from the long established principle that the risk to which a guarantor is exposed can not be altered in any material way without his prior consent . |
| 9 | Another went into a long self-serving solo . |
| 10 | This will tend to reduce the price that a trader is prepared to pay for a long position , and increase the price required for a short position . |
| 11 | This continued for a long time during which he shuffled his feet uncomfortably , controlling his immediate impulse to shout at her to be quiet . |
| 12 | Each came from a long cross by Jamie Webb . |
| 13 | Each came from a long cross ( not gules but or ) by Jamie Webb . |
| 14 | Whilst first aid remedies may be of use for each episode of acute illness , proper constitutional treatment and advice is likely to be more appropriate to help with the long term tendency to become unwell repeatedly . |
| 15 | The only sign of fear was a nervous tremble in the long spindly legs . |
| 16 | This will generate lower transactions costs than arbitrage as it requires only one sale of shares and one purchase of futures — assuming that the investor would have closed out his or her long position in shares at the delivery date anyway , or is content to roll over the long futures position until they would otherwise have sold their share portfolio . |
| 17 | We seem to have two kinds of ‘ existenceworthiness ’ : the dewdrop kind , which can be summed up as ‘ likely to come into existence but not very durable ’ ; and the rock kind , which can be summed up as ‘ not very likely to come into existence but likely to last for a long time once there ’ . |
| 18 | BP 's Miller platform ; one of three included in a long term contract awarded to the division during 1992 . |
| 19 | The Possessed looked for a long time like losing its way , and Dostoevsky would surely concede that in so far as the design was , to use his own word , tendentious , this was bound to be so . |
| 20 | ‘ Please yourself But it 's the best offer you 're likely to get in a long time . ’ |
| 21 | They are likely to stay for a long time with one organisation , and indeed many organisations seek to bind them to them by offering fringe benefits , particularly in the form of " loyalty bonuses " to encourage them to return at the start of each new banqueting season . |
| 22 | In schematic form : The arrows indicate an order of determination which is supposed to operate on a long historical time scale . |
| 23 | It all seemed like a long time ago , but actually it was only this morning . |
| 24 | The armourers all slept in a long room on the first floor , with J. in a small room to himself at the end , and it so happened that Matthew occupied the corresponding small room immediately underneath on the ground floor . |
| 25 | A horse that is fit for hunting may be unable to cope with a long schooling session . |
| 26 | Only when these key steps have been taken will government and individuals alike be able to plan for the long term , instead of focusing on the short term and the next election . |
| 27 | The opening of the European Community telecommunications markets needs to be controlled , otherwise manufacturers could suffer , Georges Paricard , chairman of French telecommunications industry body SIT , told the lobby 's annual conference — if deregulation was done in an uncontrolled way , telephone operators would be reluctant to invest for the long term , leaving equipment makers deprived of orders . |
| 28 | If the budget worsens after revenue-yielding tariffs have been reduced , governments may not be able to wait for the longer term trade gains to emerge to replace the lost revenue . |
| 29 | In this context , the material before the board indicated — ( 1 ) that investors were persuaded by company representatives employed by the Winchester Group to cancel their existing policies and to ‘ switch ’ to Norwich Union without their best interests and any disadvantages attendant upon so doing necessarily being considered ; ( 2 ) that other undesirable selling practices — for instance ‘ overselling ’ whereby investors are persuaded to take out a range of policies which they may not be able to afford in the long term — have been employed by company representatives selling on behalf of the Winchester Group ; ( 3 ) that the fact find forms completed by the Winchester Group for forwarding to Norwich Union were inadequate for the purposes of ensuring that products were only sold to investors on a ‘ best advice ’ basis ; ( 4 ) that the connections between Mr. Tee and Mr. Kissane ( a former director of the Winchester Group now awaiting trial on charges of theft of client moneys ) and also between the Winchester Group and Mr. Randhir Singh were such as to call into question the extent to which the controllers , directors and senior managers of the Winchester Group could be regarded as being of good character and competent or otherwise suitable to manage the marketing of investment contracts on behalf of Norwich Union and also whether the Winchester Group could be safely regarded as a fit and proper person for the purposes of enjoying appointed representative status ; ( 5 ) that policies had been sold by eight persons engaged by the Winchester Group who had not been appointed as company representatives of Norwich Union or in any other way authorised to sell investment contracts on behalf of Norwich Union and that other individuals who had been appointed as company representatives had not been registered as such with Lautro ; ( 6 ) that certain company representatives engaged by the Winchester Group appeared to be channelling client moneys through their own personal bank accounts . |
| 30 | Early studies in the USA ( Hughes , 1923 ; Woodbury , 1925 ) reported higher infant mortality rates for those born after an interval of less than two years than for those born after a longer interval . |