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

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31 If you could try to look as if you 're being guarded , it would go a long way .
32 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 .
33 An extended speed limit would go a long way towards making this road safer for all users and would be relatively inexpensive .
34 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 .
35 So if we could use , insist on issuing licences , that would go a long way to sorting some of these of these problems out .
36 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 .
37 ‘ This hostel would go a long way towards that .
38 The price cut will go a little way to alleviating the burden of VAT on bills , due to be introduced next April , a move described by Manweb chairman Bryan Weston as disappointing .
39 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 .
40 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 .
41 Moreover , your sterling will go a long way — not a small consideration .
42 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 .
43 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 .
44 You will find a tiny amount will go a long way .
45 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 .
46 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 .
47 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 .
48 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 .
49 When they thud through the letter-box , £150 will go a long way to ease your mind .
50 So far readers have raised £13,400 , which will go a long way towards safeguarding the centre 's future .
51 Not making judgments about the lifestyles and sexual practices of others will go a long way towards encouraging honesty and trust .
52 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 . ’
53 Little Renaissance furniture survives intact , and the present catalogue will go a long way to furthering its understanding .
54 A lot of changes are being made which will go a long way towards making the garments more user friendly .
55 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 .
56 A Labour Party which offers an alternative agenda , involving as many people as possible in its ownership , will go a long way towards providing the ‘ vision ’ factor it currently lacks .
57 Nonetheless , the changes in employment by product sectors which we have reported at Table 5.3 , that is , changes in national ‘ industrial structure ’ , will go a long way to explain the concentration of de-industrialization in regions of the ‘ North ’ , with all its effects on population ( Chapter 4 ) .
58 The proposals in the consultation document will go a long way towards improving the facilities and the standards that drivers expect from motorway service areas .
59 We need an improved education system , and the Bill will go a long way to achieving that for the benefit of our children .
60 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 .
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