Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [art] long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Nothing stops a British government removing or reducing the Opposition 's freedom to attack the government for roughly a third of the parliamentary session except the belief that this would be undesirable and would hamper both parties in the long run . |
| 32 | This definition encompasses the trade-off between static and dynamic efficiency : current welfare losses may be acceptable , if the market structure or conduct which gives rise to the losses will also generate efficiencies in the long run , so long as the prospective benefits are not too delayed in realization and the social discount rate is not too high . |
| 33 | It is apparent from the discussion above , that in the restructuring processes arising from completion of the SEM , the disadvantaged regions may suffer negative impacts in the long term . |
| 34 | If it was not used to preserve , bolster and enhance capitalism and its leading sectors in the long term , then severe economic crises would ensue . |
| 35 | We are convinced that the philosophy which was originally intended to predominate in the post-war UK child care legislation — namely that the work of public agencies was to provide supportive services to families , part of which could include admission to care as a means ultimately of preserving family relationships in the long run — has been lost from current practice . |
| 36 | Normally it did n't harm relationships in the long term but there were occasions when people could feel very hurt . |
| 37 | The object of the game , to construct small words from a long word , is made more interesting by the use of graphics . |
| 38 | There is no guarantee for local fishermen that they will have their livelihoods protected and a danger of job losses in the long term . ’ |
| 39 | University students taught in schools in the long vacations , and expatriate teachers were hired , especially in rural areas . |
| 40 | Even so , we are taking the first steps in a long journey towards an understanding of the body clock and the way it adjusts to our environment . |
| 41 | Funerals were within living memory ceremonial rites engaging whole communities — blinds drawn down across the street , the pomp of plumed horses and the procession of followers , traffic momentarily halted , the bereaved publicly showing their sorrow for months in the long wearing of black afterwards ; monuments and cemeteries were focuses of family and civic pride ; fear of a pauper grave was so powerful that death insurance was by far the most widespread Victorian insurance policy . |
| 42 | Er I think , I think that er our organic growth tends to be erm er er continuous and er as you know each year we 're spending erm substantial amounts er on that er we prefer organic growth to acquisitions because we avoid er premiums in the long run er frequently er organic growth is , is actually more profitable er but we are quite likely to make some acquisitions er if erm the right er strategic opportunities er are created . |
| 43 | Butler and Stokes argue that the main source of new electoral strength for Labour in 1945 was the mobilisation of manual workers who had grown up in homes without a long tradition of participation in electoral politics . |
| 44 | The Isle of Wight cable does without because it transmits monomode signals on a long wavelength ( 1300 nm ) . |
| 45 | One way to reduce mobility is to offer promises of long-term employment , with the prospect of wage increases rising by promotion steps on a long ladder of continuous employment . |
| 46 | The large amounts of data needed for such an analysis were obtained by means of a participant observation method which allowed the investigator to record speakers over a long period , returning to collect more data if specific gaps emerged in the course of the analysis ( cf. 3.1 ) . |
| 47 | In other words , if fewer teeth were filled to begin with , and more worn fillings were repaired , rather than replaced , their owners would have less need for crowns , dentures , root-canal therapy and dental implants over the long haul . |
| 48 | She gives accounts of the long hours worked by women and the effort put into maintaining what were seen as adequate standards . |
| 49 | And what heaven could the preacher offer that would compare with the joys of the long summer evenings , messing about in boats with other laughing boys and girls ? |
| 50 | It 's old ladies who show all the signs of a long life on subsistence , though they would n't necessarily see themselves as having been poor , because their husbands were n't necessarily poor . |
| 51 | Copies of the rules of the Long Term Incentive Plans for each of the Waterford Crystal and the Wedgwood Group businesses will be available for inspection on the day of the Annual General Meeting at Hotel Conrad for 15 minutes prior to and until the conclusion of the Annual General Meeting . |
| 52 | Happily the other Albert the one with two rather than four legs was in finer fettle , despite a morning spent wrestling with the complexities of a long speech . |
| 53 | Dogs which have lived in kennels for a long time can be particularly difficult to house-train successfully , although this is helped by the fact that they will only defecate about twice a day . |
| 54 | Hundreds and hundredal arrangements persisted in most areas for a long time , eventually emerging as the administrative units of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries ( until 1974 ) . |
| 55 | Nevertheless physicists have known about these effects for a long time ; indeed , measurements of splitting using radio frequency techniques ( with correspondingly low-energy photons ) provided the first direct evidence of non-spherical nuclei . |
| 56 | Certainly schools will not be handling such retrieval techniques in the present economic circumstances for a long time yet ; though a service to teachers and educational researchers is offered in the United States ( and is available here in some libraries ) by the ERIC system , which provides micro-copies of research papers together with a tolerably thorough indexing system which can be computerized for quick search . |
| 57 | Community development workers , on the other hand , have been interested in health matters for a long time . |
| 58 | I am chairman of the Africa committee of the British Refugee Council , so I have worked closely with refugees for a long time . |
| 59 | I do not intend to offend ; I merely state my innermost feelings in terms of women , past and present , based on the experiences of a long life . |
| 60 | It might plausibly be assumed that one of the effects of a long retention interval is to restore the lost arousing properties of a familiar context . |