Example sentences of "[noun] [vb mod] go a long way " in BNC.

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1 ‘ 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 .
2 The feminine touch in the car showroom could go a long way towards clinching a deal , the Retail Motor Industry Federation said yesterday .
3 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 .
4 EIGHT hours of athletics at Bebington on Saturday will go a long way to deciding who goes on a two-day trip to Blackpool next month .
5 In addition to the occasional attendance at rehearsals by the incumbent , positive words of appreciation can go a long way in making the musician feel that the job is worthwhile .
6 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 .
7 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 . ’
8 Aristocratic rivalries might go a long way to explain the ineffectiveness of English armies , as one of the chronicler 's few detailed descriptions of internal affairs indicates .
9 ‘ That girl will go a long way — ’
10 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 .
11 ‘ Broke , and I can see that 2.1 disappearing over the event horizon , but fuck it ; I 've still got my integrity and my Möbius scarf , and a boy can go a long way with those things .
12 This election could go a long way to sorting that out .
13 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 .
14 Moreover , your sterling will go a long way — not a small consideration .
15 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 .
16 The plan 's changes should go a long way to drag Lloyd 's up to the standards of other financial markets .
17 The new directives should go a long way to ensuring that employers do not abuse their employees in terms of unsafe working practice , practices .
18 The government 's measures to secure more planning permissions for housing development will go a long way to remedy the shortage of building land and so remove the occasion for windfall profits based on scarcity values .
19 An extended speed limit would go a long way towards making this road safer for all users and would be relatively inexpensive .
20 THE brilliant and well documented hurling skills of Kilkenny 's DJ Carey will go a long way towards determining the outcome of today 's big match in Croke Park .
21 And Monday 's game will go a long way towards determining Wright 's future .
22 When they thud through the letter-box , £150 will go a long way to ease your mind .
23 Little Renaissance furniture survives intact , and the present catalogue will go a long way to furthering its understanding .
24 Schema theory can go a long way towards explaining the sender 's choice and arrangement of information in communication .
25 A good footnote can go a long way .
26 A little espionage would go a long way — that sort of thing .
27 In the meantime this recording should go a long way to helping his cause .
28 We need an improved education system , and the Bill will go a long way to achieving that for the benefit of our children .
29 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 .
30 Rangers ' meeting with Marseille on 7 April in France will go a long way to deciding whether or not the Ibrox club should pencil in a Spring trip to Bavaria .
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