Example sentences of "[vb mod] [vb infin] a long way " in BNC.
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| 31 | 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 . |
| 32 | Quite clearly , a small percentage reduction in wastage would go a long way to easing the manpower problems . |
| 33 | 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 . |
| 34 | A little espionage would go a long way — that sort of thing . |
| 35 | If you could try to look as if you 're being guarded , it would go a long way . |
| 36 | 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 . |
| 37 | An extended speed limit would go a long way towards making this road safer for all users and would be relatively inexpensive . |
| 38 | 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 . |
| 39 | So if we could use , insist on issuing licences , that would go a long way to sorting some of these of these problems out . |
| 40 | 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 . |
| 41 | ‘ This hostel would go a long way towards that . |
| 42 | The truth is , if we were looking for people to blame for the fact that the once-great club are now Division Three favourites , referee Brian Coddington would come a long way down the list . |
| 43 | For those contemplating a university course , graduation may seem a long way off — 1997 and beyond — and thoughts of what to do afterwards may understandably be equally distant . |
| 44 | De Klerk dismissed suggestions that he ca n't control his security forces by pointing out that he appointed 10,000 police officers last year , and claims that the new influx will go a long way in helping subdue township unrest . |
| 45 | But d-i-y treatment will go a long way towards keeping rot at bay , and you should be prepared to give freshly exposed cut surfaces of both cladding and battens an extra coat of preservative during installation for extra protection . |
| 46 | Moreover , your sterling will go a long way — not a small consideration . |
| 47 | 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 . |
| 48 | While you 're in hospital , a guaranteed additional daily income will go a long way to ensuring that you do n't come out of hospital with financial worries . |
| 49 | You will find a tiny amount will go a long way . |
| 50 | Common sense , experience in your own family will go a long way ; but there is training available , so if you are n't offered any , ask for it . |
| 51 | If objectives from the higher categories of Bloom 's taxonomy are included , where students are asked to make judgements , to criticise and evaluate ; and if students are given a range of objectives from which they may make their own choices and even , at the later stages of training , are encouraged to write their own , then this will go a long way to meeting this criticism . |
| 52 | Its adoption and implementation throughout the Community will go a long way towards ensuring equal conditions for UK investors exploring opportunities in other Member States . |
| 53 | When wireless communications become available for a wider range of portables , the prevalence of Notes and applications like it will go a long way towards tying into networks PCs that are being under-utilised as little more than personal information managers . |
| 54 | When they thud through the letter-box , £150 will go a long way to ease your mind . |
| 55 | So far readers have raised £13,400 , which will go a long way towards safeguarding the centre 's future . |
| 56 | Not making judgments about the lifestyles and sexual practices of others will go a long way towards encouraging honesty and trust . |
| 57 | At the head of the stairs she paused and gripped the broad banister ; then slowly descending the stairs , she muttered to herself , ‘ A little of that one will go a long way . ’ |
| 58 | Little Renaissance furniture survives intact , and the present catalogue will go a long way to furthering its understanding . |
| 59 | A lot of changes are being made which will go a long way towards making the garments more user friendly . |
| 60 | The head of the Exchange 's advertising department Boris Goldman believes that the opening of the exchange will go a long way to breaking the mafia art market in which Western and Russian intermediaries often knock down prices on Russian works of art . |