Example sentences of "in the long [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the long run they will have to bear the consequences of an unrealistic and immature child . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | In the long run they are incorrect to the degree that they are incomplete . |
| 4 | We never asked for these technologies , and in the long run they give us fewer choices , not more . |
| 5 | Forest fans gave it to that slag Clough and in the long run they got a bitter reward . |
| 6 | Mind you , you see in the long run they proved that she was |
| 7 | In the long run we still want something that will enable us to stop the resistance completely , ’ she said . |
| 8 | Fuel for today and food for this season are vital concerns now , and for such people Keynes ' aphorism that ‘ in the long run we are all dead ’ may be appropriate . |
| 9 | In the long run we aim to introduce a Citizen 's income , a payment to every individual , irrespective of sex , marital status , income of employment status . |
| 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 | 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 |
| 13 | In the long run he learned some hard lessons and improved his grasp of what good executive legislative relations require in the American pluralist system . |
| 14 | So in the long run I think his objectivity may have helped a little bit . |
| 15 | Then in the long run I did in fact to Superintendent about the information we had gleaned from this telephone call . |
| 16 | I see a set of conclusions that achieve almost everything that was demanded at that time and I am grateful to everybody concerned who 's actually sat down and actually really thought about what we 're trying to do and everybody has made some compromise here and I shall certainly support this amendment and I shall make the compromise because the one thing in here that I thought was necessary that is n't there is the statement that there will be a head of centre and having actually worked in a project , head of sorry , head of project and having actually worked in a situation where I was a joint manager erm in the long run I think people will see the the wisdom of of a single head of project . |
| 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 | You see them much more as people , you know their interests much more than if they are just there listening to the lesson and so in a way this open access to the teacher , I think , although at times it does give extra pressure in the long run I think it 's tremendously beneficial . |
| 19 | In the long run I think it will be a loss to the Government , for the very simple reason we have got to meet this competition and if we do n't in a few years time the housewife possibly will be paying a lot more money for the produce . |
| 20 | In the long run I think this is probably the most exciting investment that we have been privileged to have in the town , and this really confirms Telford 's position as number one Japanese investment in the United Kingdom ; we now have 20 companies here . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | But in the long run it only makes me feel worse about myself . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | In those instances I 'd force myself and in the long run it turned out better . |
| 27 | And although there is usually another promise about interest rates , in the long run it usually means very little . |
| 28 | In the long run it does not work ; if it did , the parents would not be asking for advice . |
| 29 | While this may have appeared to solve the monarchy 's immediate problems , in the long run it only made them worse . |
| 30 | In the long run it was to create a new ‘ image ’ of itself which was purposely devoid of politics , as well as left-wing politics . |