Example sentences of "in [art] long [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She contemplates her image in the long looking-glass by the window , and decides that the effect is a little too sombre . |
| 2 | Institutionally it was shaken almost to pieces , and certainly out of the torpor that had descended upon it in the long aftermath of the Counter Reformation and the seventeenth-century wars of religion , by the reverberations of the Revolution with their deeply anti-religious and anti-traditional note . |
| 3 | This is undoubtedly an area where further advice , guidance , encouragement and practical support now , could be of considerable benefit in the long run towards co-ordinating the current uneven and inequitable distribution of in-service training . |
| 4 | Do n't be tempted to put off dealing with any items because of pressure of time ; in the long run of the whole transaction you will save time , and possible error too , by preparing all the documents at once , whilst the matter is fresh in your mind . |
| 5 | But really it is the crew as a whole which counts in the long run on a job like this . |
| 6 | The Six had reverted to Schuman 's view that political union could be achieved in the long run through a sustained effort at economic integration across a broad front . |
| 7 | Pétain was also a disciple of attrition , but in an entirely different sense from Joffre and Haig with their inhumanly simple calculations that the Germans could be beaten in the long run through losing man for man , by virtue of the Allied superiority in cannon fodder . |
| 8 | How much better in the long run for companies , auditors and regulation generally if auditors would have the courage to make timely representations aimed at a general ruling , in these circumstances , assuming that they have failed to persuade the client not to proceed and that the grounds for an audit qualification are uncertain . |
| 9 | If changes in conditions disrupt the precise replication of parental characters so as to yield hereditary variation , then , providing only that some of it happens to be adaptive , this will suffice in the long run for selection as a cause of adaptive species formations . |
| 10 | The 1909 Act was more important in the long run for its encouragement of urban planning . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ That 's not sour grapes or anything like it more a professional belief in myself that it would have been better in the long run for ME Eithne Browne and probably for Chrissie , too . |
| 13 | Even extremists of the 1960s , who believed that the task of a school was to ensure that children enjoyed themselves while they were pupils , must have had in mind , as well , some further outcome , some advantage that would flow in the long run to the children who had been encouraged , under that regime , to ‘ grow ’ and ‘ blossom ’ and ‘ flourish ’ in the ‘ learning situation ’ provided by the class-room . |
| 14 | That may still be prudent if your fish are in the top-quality bracket , but otherwise it may pay in the long run to be looking at 12″ Koi upwards . |
| 15 | If this happens , your job could still be just as much in jeopardy in the long run as that of an employee who has clearly and inexcusably committed an offence . |
| 16 | In particular , we have shown examples where a tax on capital income may be shifted completely , and have demonstrated that in less extreme cases the effective redistribution may be very much reduced in the long run as a result of adjustments in the capital stock . |
| 17 | At all events , John was singularly successful in the long run at turning his back on everything that smacked of Anglicanism ; he alone of all the Titford brothers managed to cold-shoulder St John 's church for everything except his marriage . |
| 18 | fixations might do better in the long run by holding out until you 've got enough cash to buy the real thing . |
| 19 | This move had a dramatic effect on the income of pensioners in 1948 , but flawed the Beveridge scheme in the long run by ensuring that many pensioners would have to continue resorting to means-tested benefits . |
| 20 | While the unweaned child must remain preoccupied by the absence of the breast and his hunger for it , the successfully weaned individual is free to turn his attention to other means of satisfying his hunter , and will probably find that , as in the instructive case of agriculture , a judicious control of his appetite results in the long run in a lessened likelihood of hunger . |
| 21 | Monetarists argue that increases in money supply have a large effect on aggregate demand ( certainly in the long run ) because the L curve is inelastic and investment is responsive to changes in interest rates ; but that this increase in aggregate demand will simply be reflected in the long run in higher prices : the AS curve is vertical . |
| 22 | You see , he knew he would get more income in the long run from returning your hat than from keeping it and selling it . ’ |
| 23 | Perhaps the United States itself would benefit in the long run from a more flexible policy on sterling and other matters . |
| 24 | It is clear both from Scripture and in the long experience of the Church , that some Christians can do this much more effectively than the majority . |
| 25 | THE 138th Boat Race will go down as one of the classic encounters in the long history of the event . |
| 26 | Duclos-Lasalle , 37 , who is likely to retire at the end of the season , converted two previous second places , a fourth and sixth , into victory when he arrived alone on the velodrome at Roubaix to one of the warmest welcomes in the long history of the race . |
| 27 | Now , for the first time in the long history of settling our islands , the guardians have become the destroyers . |
| 28 | In the long history of the Church this is usually how change has come about . |
| 29 | No account of Churchill 's stewardship of Cabinet government is complete without mentioning the swiftest and most comprehensive Cabinet leak in the long history of unauthorized disclosure . |
| 30 | This is the period in the long history of the evolution of man and his God , which started with the beginning of life on earth , and ended with the dawning of civilisation . |