Example sentences of "[adj] in [art] long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The management and workers of those domestic firms which join the TCC may well benefit from this in the long run , as well as the foreign-controlled sector . |
| 2 | The figures for males and females are also consistent with our findings for ( a ) and ( Ε ) : females lead in the move away from traditional vernacular forms , and this in the long term tends to reduce allophony and simplify alternations . |
| 3 | If you are getting on to a diet which involves being very restricted for choice , and in some cases , missing out meals altogether , you are perfectly normal if you find it difficult to stick to this in the long term . |
| 4 | This may be easier in the long run than trying to hack your way through the jungle of your local community health or social services departments . |
| 5 | Would it be more sensible in the long run to buy a second-hand television rather than to keep renting one ? |
| 6 | He said that he had enjoyed working on his own behalf , but felt that staying out of the profession would not be sensible in the long run . |
| 7 | Regulation which might be more costly in the short term than the actual abuses it seeks to regulate , may be justifiable in the long run . |
| 8 | Do n't try to remove anything before it is ready as it will only go wrong in the long run , making all your work so far a complete waste of effort . |
| 9 | However important this is , it ought to be born in mind that what may appear to be the cheapest at the time may not necessarily be the most effective in solving a particular odour problem and consequently not the cheapest in the long term . |
| 10 | Environmental management methods usually require a large workforce , are costly and are generally feasible only in townships and major commercial undertakings vital to the country 's economy , where they may prove more economical in the long run than the recurrent use of insecticides . |
| 11 | If there is an existing pipe organ and it is of good quality , it may prove to be more economical in the long run to restore rather than replace it . |
| 12 | This may make any savings you anticipate by remortgaging immaterial in the long run . |
| 13 | She could n't bear that — could n't stand to become just another in a long line of faceless women whose names he probably could n't even remember . |
| 14 | If her hurried attempt to close it was a betrayal then it was only another in a long line of mistakes . |
| 15 | He is yet another in a long line of Scottish internationalists whose generous gifts on the park were matched by an outrageous streak when they went out to play in the recreational sense . |
| 16 | For environmental health officer John Waite , it 's just another in a long list of complaints about noise . |
| 17 | Michael Meacher , Labour 's employment spokesman , last night said : ‘ The formula is not just another in the long line of bureaucratic barriers which prevent the unemployed claiming benefit . |
| 18 | J. Stannard , Recent Developments in Criminal Law , SLS , 1988 , 59 , averred : " Bevan is another in the long line of cases where courts have adopted a strained construction of legislation in order to convict a person who is clearly guilty of dishonest conduct but also does not appear to be adequately covered by any legislative provision . " |
| 19 | We 've got to recognise , if there was no following policy , any thief or drunk driver only has to put their toe down and drive away at speed , comfortable that police wo n't follow them and that is far more dangerous in the long run for the public . |
| 20 | Part of the point of selling state businesses is to raise hard cash , and taking on more debt to fund worker buyouts in return for low or non-earning equity stakes ( which may prove to be worthless in the long run ) is not a real option for the government . |
| 21 | Monetarists argue that aggregate supply is inelastic in the long run ( see Figure 18.1 ( a ) ) , and therefore output ( Q ) is determined independently of aggregate demand . |
| 22 | The final was held on April 26 in the Long Room at Trent Bridge and pictured ( above left to right ) are team members , David Lloyd , Derek Creswell , Barbara Johnston and David Vaughan , with Rothmans representative Lindsay Gomer ( second left ) . |
| 23 | It may be an indication of other problems in the urinary tract some of which could potentially be serious in the long term . |
| 24 | Staying would also be impossible in the long run but that young man would let me stay for a little while — until the restaurant closed , anyway . |
| 25 | Like her father Elizabeth could only pay for war by resorting to forced loans , benevolences , and various other devices that proved unpopular in the long run , although , to her credit , she never debased the coinage . |
| 26 | With hindsight , of course , it is now possible to question the glamorizing of drug-taking in such films as Easy Rider , Psych-Out and The Trip and others ; the in-built health warnings were seldom noticed and there was a certain drugs bandwagon rolling , anyway , largely created in the pop industry where drug usage was not only referred to , even poetically eulogized in song , but physically demonstrated by some of its more tragic exponents like Brian Jones , Jimi Hendrix and Janice Joplin , to name but three in a long line of fallen idols and heroes . |
| 27 | ‘ I have n't seen you so passionate in a long time . |
| 28 | I am looking at two lots of 35 in the long waveband and one lot of 32 in the medium waveband. 35 and 32 what ? |
| 29 | For example , as we noted , the definition of pragmatics as concerned with encoded aspects of context may be less restrictive than it seems at first sight ; for if in general ( a ) principles of language usage have as corollaries principles of interpretation , and ( b ) principles of language usage are likely in the long run to impinge on grammar ( and some empirical support can be found for both propositions ) , then theories about pragmatic aspects of meaning will be closely related to theories about the grammaticalization of aspects of context . |
| 30 | Avoiding everybody in the staffroom is likely in the long term to be a bad strategy because its result is isolation . |