Example sentences of "[modal v] go a [adj] way [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the meantime this recording should go a long way to helping his cause . |
| 2 | Our exclusive interview with Steffi elsewhere in this issue should go a long way to satisfying the demands of her fans , many of whom continue to demand more and more information about their favourite player . |
| 3 | Together with thick carpet and underfelt , it should go a long way to pleasing the occupants of the flat below . |
| 4 | Captain George Sutherland , director of marine operations for Shetland Island Council , said : ‘ The proposals for traffic separation should go a long way to providing protection for the adjacent coastline and we are content with the measures . ’ |
| 5 | The new directives should go a long way to ensuring that employers do not abuse their employees in terms of unsafe working practice , practices . |
| 6 | ‘ This afternoon 's coverage should go a long way in helping you set up your own firm , ’ he said , wiping his hands on a serviette . |
| 7 | Local conditions must go a long way to explaining why some villages were vulnerable to enclosure and others were not , and these variations could occur within the limits of a single shire . |
| 8 | He believed that parliamentary government could go a great way towards securing personal liberty but ‘ neither parliamentary government nor any other form of constitution … will ever of itself remove all or half the sufferings of human beings . |
| 9 | If applied on an institutional scale it could abolish the deficit of cadaveric transplants and could go a long way towards solving the moral problem that continues to exercise me and my colleagues . ’ |
| 10 | The feminine touch in the car showroom could go a long way towards clinching a deal , the Retail Motor Industry Federation said yesterday . |
| 11 | That could go a long way towards avoiding car payments . |
| 12 | We will have more success at slowing world population growth if we see it as problem of enabling women in poor countries to have control over their own reproduction , which some carefully targeted development aid could go a long way towards achieving . |
| 13 | This election could go a long way to sorting that out . |
| 14 | ‘ And they 'd go a long way to ‘ elp ‘ im if ever ‘ e ‘ ad a problem . ’ |
| 15 | Lastly , careful use of space in the table layout may go a long way towards helpful guiding of the eye . |
| 16 | Government policy was aimed at reducing the number of smokers in the country and an advertising ban would go a good way to achieving this , he said . |
| 17 | Murray confirmed only that the deal had been agreed and that it would go a long way towards cutting Rangers ' overdraft of £9.5 million . |
| 18 | That , stated Coopers & Lybrand/Cork Gully in their guide to the Cork Report , would go a long way towards remedying the shortcomings of the present system . |
| 19 | If it were made good , it would go a long way towards providing a justification for denying English the place in our educational system which we demand for it . |
| 20 | An extended speed limit would go a long way towards making this road safer for all users and would be relatively inexpensive . |
| 21 | But size is n't everything and a quality performance from Henry Cecil 's colt — or any other runner — would go a long way towards salvaging the historic event 's ailing reputation . |
| 22 | ‘ This hostel would go a long way towards that . |
| 23 | Satisfactory tenants would at least keep the house warm and protected , as well as producing an income that would go a long way to meeting your expenses . |
| 24 | A large microcomputer system with an extensive range of hardware devices and large block of extra machine-code routines is very flexible and powerful , and would go a long way to meeting the requirements of the program designer , but in realistic terms such a system would be too expensive for most schools at present . |
| 25 | Quite clearly , a small percentage reduction in wastage would go a long way to easing the manpower problems . |
| 26 | As my right hon. Friend the shadow Home Secretary emphasised , a Freedom of Information Act which we would introduce would go a long way to improving all our freedoms . |
| 27 | and we , we would ask of that , but the next point and erm , is this my Lord erm at the moment erm the negotiations are erm proceeding in relation to the house , about which we have heard evidence , er , we could not properly buy it until it had been investigated by the court of protection and there was approval of that , and er it will be necessary for er consideration to be given as to how it should be purchased , in practical terms , firstly your Lordship has erm awarded a figure of seventy one thousand pounds , then there is the eighty thousand pounds on the existing house which takes one up to a hundred and fifty or thereabouts , and one sees that the special damages and interest thereon comes to something over fifty two thousand pounds to which these er parents will be entitled in the normal way , and if they were to apply , they might do and apply , that would go a long way to purchasing it and the court of protection , if it approved that might take the view that it would be fair to take something out of the notional aspect of damages for loss of earnings , because after all the plaintiff would have spent his earnings for housing and so on in the future , that , that is the sort of problems that now have to be tackled er what , what we would respect and suggest is er simply that there is liberty to apply erm . |
| 28 | So if we could use , insist on issuing licences , that would go a long way to sorting some of these of these problems out . |
| 29 | I suppose the fact that I 'd made it at the age of 14 was important because it meant I would go a long way in athletics . |
| 30 | Organising a fair distribution of tickets by perhaps initially limiting the number allocated to each family or , alternatively , putting on an extra performance will go a long way to solving the problem . |