Example sentences of "[modal v] [vb infin] [prep] the long " in BNC.

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1 But we must look at the long term view .
2 But we may expect in the long run to become as comfortable in the new clothes as we were in the old .
3 On this basis , over 600 jobs might disappear in the longer term . ’
4 A study of books published in America about public relations will prove very useful to you as you consider the direction your career in public relations might take in the longer term .
5 It is concluded that the transposed colon retains its normal motility pattern but some adaptation to its new location may occur in the long term .
6 Elsewhere , you could try for the Long Range Weather Forecasting Agency ( bring your own piece of seaweed ) or the World Bank in Washington , but the growth industries of tax-free living must be in Europe .
7 Find two ideas that we could develop over the long term .
8 If one was punctual and could pay in the long run , why incur the debt at all ?
9 Even though the beef industry is taken aback by the sudden jump in prices , the general opinion is that they will stick until at least July — and could harden in the long term if CAP reform and a further round of milk quotas push down breeding numbers .
10 while purchasing power parity may hold in the long run if real shocks are unimportant , in the short run the exchange rate is not caused by PPP considerations ; rather , with the exchange rate clearing the asset markets , variations in international competitiveness lead to equilibrating changes in the size of the traded goods sector .
11 That may still be prudent if your fish are in the top-quality bracket , but otherwise it may pay in the long run to be looking at 12″ Koi upwards .
12 But he would pray — both for Emilia 's recovery from affliction , and for the strength he would need throughout the long thawing of the ice about her heart .
13 Perhaps the United States itself would benefit in the long run from a more flexible policy on sterling and other matters .
14 Even extremists of the 1960s , who believed that the task of a school was to ensure that children enjoyed themselves while they were pupils , must have had in mind , as well , some further outcome , some advantage that would flow in the long run to the children who had been encouraged , under that regime , to ‘ grow ’ and ‘ blossom ’ and ‘ flourish ’ in the ‘ learning situation ’ provided by the class-room .
15 So it looks as though the Government has given the council a cautious go-ahead to draw up a scheme if not to beat the Tay , then to lessen the disastrous effects another flood would have on the long suffering Perthshire population .
16 While the ANS had been highly successful in pioneering studies of the ultraviolet and X-ray sky , the new satellite would turn to the longer wavelengths of the infrared .
17 These findings , with the clinical risk study , might form a reasonable explanation for our 5 positive samples , and raise new insights that the CSF AChE-AD may not be specific for AD and may participate in the long biochemical and pathological abnormality of not only AD but also organic dementia .
18 Other conundra m–y appear rather less cosmically' relevant ; they may seem to be of little importance yet , like Mercury 's orbit , may prove in the long term to be extremely important .
19 My guess however is that the Ariston 's unusually musical qualities will appeal in the long term where some more glamorous looking contrivances will ultimately be found tiresome or wanting .
20 If changes in conditions disrupt the precise replication of parental characters so as to yield hereditary variation , then , providing only that some of it happens to be adaptive , this will suffice in the long run for selection as a cause of adaptive species formations .
21 The direction an organisation will move in the long term
22 As to which will prevail in the longer term , the jury remains out until NT makes its official appearance in 1993 .
23 While the EV figures will only be guidelines for any individual project , the expected and actual cumulative figures will converge in the long run if the method is consistently applied , maximizing the productivity of the R&D function .
24 While the EV figures will only be guidelines for any individual project , the expected and actual cumulative figures will converge in the long run if the method is consistently applied , maximizing the productivity of the R&D function .
25 It 's the children who will suffer in the long run . ’
26 All of them are now under review to make sure they are ‘ in a particular market where we can win in the long term ’ .
27 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 .
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