Example sentences of "[adj] way to go [subord] [pers pn] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although particulate traps can be made to work effectively for short periods under favourable conditions there is some way to go before they are reliable enough for the rough and tumble of ordinary operating conditions . |
| 2 | Low-alcohol wines , beers and lagers have some way to go before they are considered chic , but many an exclusive restaurant can now produce a mineral water list on cue . |
| 3 | Although our productivity compares well with coal industries in Europe , it has some way to go before it is at the level of some of the coal industries outside Europe . |
| 4 | Sydney had some way to go before it was released from the burden of compulsive immigration , and before it could present to the world a face that was uniquely its own . |
| 5 | ‘ We have a long way to go before we are able to record and translate accurately such imprints of ourselves left behind in the void of time . |
| 6 | Others , focusing on issues such as the inequality in the wages paid to men and women or the violence that women receive at men 's hands , argue that women still have a long way to go before they are fully liberated . |
| 7 | The day left Anselm in possession of the pastoral staff , but there was still a long way to go before he was a fully consecrated archbishop . |
| 8 | ‘ I 've got a long way to go before I 'm thirty , ’ she 'd say . |
| 9 | And I 'm afraid that as all I 've seen is one miscalculated mishap after another you 've got an awful long way to go before I 'm convinced of anything . |
| 10 | A great deal of the plant is now under computerised control although there is still a long way to go before it is as automated as other maltings in the group . |
| 11 | Such difficult transition demands time and balance and Romania has a long way to go before it is comfortable with its new identity . |
| 12 | After all we are only half way through this year 's Charity of the Year programme and there is still a long way to go if we are to raise enough to fully fund the training of a Macmillan Nurse . |
| 13 | It 's a long way to go if he 's just round the corner . ’ |
| 14 | This young man has a long way to go if he 's to earn a PhD in Biology like his mum . |