Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [noun] [prep] [art] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | Forcing his way through a gap in a hedge , he caught his hand on a thorn and saw beads of blood ooze from a long scratch . |
| 2 | For this reason Simons argues that self-evaluation should be isolated from accountability demands for a time , although she also believes that school self-evaluation could provide the most positive form of accountability procedure in the long term . |
| 3 | There is no guarantee for local fishermen that they will have their livelihoods protected and a danger of job losses in the long term . ’ |
| 4 | The creation and enhancement of shareholder value is at the core of Group strategy for the long term — 1992 has seen a watershed in the Group 's achievement of this aim . |
| 5 | In very general terms , Marxist theorists look for the location of power in the wider social and economic structure of society There is continuing debate within Marxism over the exact role that the state ( or political level ) fulfils and whether it has any significant independence from the requirements of the owners of the means of production and the preservation of the system of capital accumulation In the long term , however , Marxists argue that the scope for human beings to choose freely and to shape their society as they wish is severely circumscribed by the private ownership of the means of production , the necessity of the state to respond to the crises and problems generated by capitalism as an economic system and the inequality of competition between different ideologies Elite theories do not go so far in limiting the scope for individuals to choose or to shape their societies They argue that individuals can choose , subjectively , to join , to maintain or to challenge the structure of power which exists . |
| 6 | Then I bit into the first slice of bread ; home made , plastered thickly with farm butter and topped by a lavish layer of heather honey from the long row of hives I had often seen on the edge of the moor above . |
| 7 | The problem of consistency of measurement techniques over a long period of time will have to be faced and may not have a satisfactory solution . |
| 8 | What particularly touched me was that , practical as always and among the most financially-shrewd of men he said that perhaps he could be of material help over the longer tour . |
| 9 | The demand for money is also influenced by expectations of price changes and the levels of interest rates over the longer term . |
| 10 | The main focus of the work in the energy area is into the determinants of energy demand in the longer term ( including the effects of price , technical change and structural adjustment ) , the technological and economical assessment of alternative energy production systems , and the impact of new electronics related technologies on energy consumption and production . |
| 11 | You will only be successful with weight control in the long term if you allow yourself to eat foods you enjoy as part of a well-balanced regime . |
| 12 | You might like to explore this by mixing gin with pineapple juice in a long drink , or folding gin into the whipped cream for a pineapple sundae or hot dessert . |
| 13 | Both government and local authorities have failed to put money into capital projects for a long long time . |
| 14 | Today 's photo session may have taken us from dog track to town hall , from tube station to The Longest Market in Britain ( fact ! ) , but the travelling has n't covered the cracks in the area 's cultural structure . |
| 15 | The study will also take into account the effects of aging , which may contribute to a decline in knowledge retention over a long period . |
| 16 | So he he 's worked in steel work for a long time . |
| 17 | In addition , an elevator for discharging grain from ships was completed on the South side of Edinburgh Dock and connected to the warehouse by a large conveyor band erected on brackets hung from steel principals of a long iron shed . |
| 18 | Community development workers , on the other hand , have been interested in health matters for a long time . |
| 19 | And then er a and then after they had been in hay ricks for a long time they were brought up to the farm and built into a bigger stack , a bigger thing . |
| 20 | Put the rest in unit trusts with a long established firm . |
| 21 | If not we 'll be in limbo land for a long time . |
| 22 | In these respects , there has been a general and continuing decline in prison conditions over a long period of time ( King and McDermott , 1999 ) . |
| 23 | It is usually in the position of seeking to sell new debt in the short term but it is also concerned to promote efficient trading mechanisms and to sustain the demand for government debt in the long term . |
| 24 | In other areas Nyerere 's influence was more circumspect , but it was successful in maintaining the myth of Tanzania , at least for domestic consumption , as a country committed to building socialism in the long term . |
| 25 | The results suggest that such policies have relatively little impact on investment demand over the longer term . |
| 26 | Because of the variable time between pulse labelling and biopsy , there will be a trend to higher crypt labelling subsequent on cell division over the longer time periods . |
| 27 | Casting aside the aspiration to Home Rule as no longer acceptable , Sinn Fein set as its goal an Irish Republic as declared in the 1916 Proclamation . |
| 28 | The area has not been know for fashion stores for a long time , but the new Criterion building is the location of Sogo , the new drive-in fashion store . |
| 29 | I also remember how the knocker-up went around the streets banging at bedroom windows with a long stick to wake the occupants in time to get to work . |
| 30 | A predisposing tumour suppressor gene for breast and ovarian cancer families , BRCA1 , has been mapped by linkage analysis on the long term of chromosome 17 , close to but probably distinct from the region noted in sporadic ovarian cancer . |