Example sentences of "[conj] in the [adj] run [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Equally , if we conclude that other presuppositions are not true , we can be sure that in the long run they will not prove satisfactory either , and we should root them out . |
| 2 | You can erm by word of mouth recommendations it means that we , we have to spend less money on advertising , now that means that in the long run we can pass that on to the client like yourself |
| 3 | It is only possible to assert that work begun with a lifting of the heart is likely to go on for longer than work begun with a contracting of the stomach , that work done with a lifting of the heart will develop further than work done with a contracting of the stomach , but there is nothing to indicate that the small amount of work which is the result of a contracting of the stomach will not be better than the large amount of work done with a lifting of the heart , than the rich development which is the likely result of work undertaken with a lifting of the heart , always bearing in mind , wrote Harsnet , and Goldberg , poring over the pages covered in his friend 's tiny handwriting , wiped the sweat from his forehead with his sleeve , glanced up at the sheet in his typewriter , always bearing in mind , he typed ( as Harsnet had written ) , that better and worse are relative terms , and that one man 's better is another man 's worse , one age 's better is another age 's worse , one civilization 's better is another civilization 's worse , better , worse , relative values , scribbled Goldberg in the margin , always bearing in mind , wrote Harsnet , that in the long run it all comes to the same thing , long run , scribbled Goldberg in the margin , same thing . |
| 4 | There were , moreover , many commercial men within the Boards who felt that in the long run it would be desirable and economic to win the space heating load . |
| 5 | She had not intended to bring this out into the open in quite this way , but she was left with little option , and she had a vague instinct that in the long run it might reap results . |
| 6 | We never asked for these technologies , and in the long run they give us fewer choices , not more . |
| 7 | Forest fans gave it to that slag Clough and in the long run they got a bitter reward . |
| 8 | This is humanity 's oft-repeated experience , and in the long run it is experience which really teaches , and no amount of scriptural citation of divinely allocated land will ever alter that . |
| 9 | In those instances I 'd force myself and in the long run it turned out better . |
| 10 | Alton Towers clearly is an exception but again , you have to pay a lot of money for it and it takes quite some time to get the return er , back and , and I would say that erm , many of Michael 's erm , er , organic erm , er , expenditure will , will erm , provide er , a really good return rather quicker but in the long run we think Alton is good . |
| 11 | Er , but in the long run we 're on the lookout to continue to build both organically and by acquisition where appropriate er , on , on the main sectors . |
| 12 | But in the long run it only makes me feel worse about myself . |
| 13 | It seems certain that Louis-Napoleon would have preferred a prolongation of his power by legal means , but in the long run it was equally clear that he would not shrink from a confrontation with the opposition . |
| 14 | Weber notes that ‘ Property as such is not always recognized as a status qualification , but in the long run it is , and with extraordinary regularity ’ . |
| 15 | In the short run capital or plant capacity is fixed but in the long run it is variable . |
| 16 | The cathedral clergy were to take the profits from the mint they ran , but in the short run they were evidently short of cash . |
| 17 | Well when , that 's what I said to , er Paula people should always go to that village shop because in the long run I know it might cost you more , but the hassle and everything , the only thing is they have n't got the variety |
| 18 | Every scrap of understanding you can glean about the dynamics of bereavement will , of course , be valuable ; but never try simply to ‘ play it by the book ’ — this or any other , for in the long run it will be the way you use your heart , not your head , that will count most . |