Example sentences of "a long [noun] [prep] explaining [art] " in BNC.

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1 Patronage was necessary , because it was expected that the member of parliament should be able to obtain it , a fact which goes a long way towards explaining the close links between so many Scots members of parliament and administration .
2 This goes a long way towards explaining the awkwardness felt by the foreign learner in conversation an awkwardness which does not seem wholly attributable to faulty or slow processing of grammar and vocabulary .
3 Schema theory can go a long way towards explaining the sender 's choice and arrangement of information in communication .
4 That undoubtedly goes a long way to explaining the inspectors ' report .
5 As one would expect , incomers took a greater interest in discussing class — class is supposed to go a long way in explaining the membership of given social networks , and in the scope of such networks .
6 Taken together they go a long way in explaining the birth and persistence of aesthetic modernism .
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