Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] a long [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Little was known about the products of many of these areas , and much research still needs to be done but Collecting Lustreware goes a long way to redressing the balance . |
| 2 | This decision goes a long way towards demonstrating the untenability of the marital-rape exemption in modern times . |
| 3 | WHATEVER YOU 'RE PLANNING TO BUY YOUR MONEY GOES A LONG WAY WITH ABBEY NATIONAL |
| 4 | Bourdieu goes a long way to remedying this defect in his treatment of actual practices in his structure ( fields ) . |
| 5 | Although this technique has a long ancestry in the Old World it was unknown in the Americas until the Spanish conquest in the sixteenth century . |
| 6 | Alba Adriatica has a long beach of fine , golden sand where holiday life is taken at a relaxed unhurried pace . |
| 7 | The convent has a long tradition of illustrating cards and books with delicate hand-crafted watercolours and inscriptions . |
| 8 | The approach of classroom testing against the hearing norms has a long tradition among educators and researchers . |
| 9 | Literature has a long history of feminist interest , but film and media studies are certainly as central to feminist cultural debates . |
| 10 | It is possibly true of ‘ Bonn ’ : Germany has a long tradition of unease about England which has been kept alive.and well in influential papers such as Die Zeit and elsewhere . |
| 11 | No Hiding Place Sitting containers on pallets or bricks goes a long way toward preventing them from harbouring all kinds of pests under their bottoms . |
| 12 | The man found in the Queen 's bedroom admitted a long list of offences . |
| 13 | They 're added to marzipan to improve its flavour and keeping qualities , and a little oil of bitter almonds goes a long way in much confectionery . |
| 14 | The interpretation of ‘ mind ’ as information processing with a self-monitoring facility called consciousness goes a long way towards resolving the problem of body — mind interaction which Popper and Eccles ( 1978 ) have recently revived . |
| 15 | Labour has a long list of priorities : a £3 billion pledge on pensions — presumably health comes after that ; health presumably comes after Labour 's £1 billion recovery programme and it presumably comes after Labour 's £8 billion housing pledge . |
| 16 | The Social Work Department has a long tradition of working in collaboration with other service providers . |
| 17 | Established in 1912 , Olympus has a long tradition of good design , using the finest materials and quality craftsmanship . |
| 18 | This kind of research has a long history in psychology and education but is relatively undeveloped in the rest of social science . |
| 19 | This became pronounced in 1949 when the College secured a long lease on two houses , 21 and 23 Cromwell Road , into one of which they moved the Senior and Junior Common Rooms , formerly housed in a hut in Queensgate . |
| 20 | It seemed to Lefevre that the splash took a long time in coming . |
| 21 | DAMON Hill went a long way towards fulfilling the hopes of his family and army of fans when he grabbed provisional pole position for Sunday 's Monaco Grand Prix . |
| 22 | Good selection procedures and thorough briefing sessions go a long way towards making an overseas assignment a success . |
| 23 | The fighting cast a long shadow over the UN peace-keeping operation in Croatia , where the first infantry units arrived over the weekend . |
| 24 | By putting car parks a long way from vulnerable spots , it 's hoped the long ‘ walk-in ’ will mean fewer people reach places under threat . |
| 25 | On Europe , the Leader of the Opposition gave a long answer during the Queen 's Speech debate on 31 October . |
| 26 | Glendenning follows a long trail of Darlington players who have gone to Rovers , but he is unable to force his way into the first team . |
| 27 | The male Moodies had a long history of accidental death . |
| 28 | He said that the republican leaders had discussed at the meeting financial and other support for Gorbachev " in the period after his resignation " , and he and Gorbachev had a long meeting on Dec. 23 to discuss transition arrangements . |
| 29 | In fact City handed him his goal on a plate as defenders Peter Atherton and David Busst left a long clearance to each other , and Wright stole in to clinch the outcome . |
| 30 | Because the drivers had a long record of bad behaviour and convictions no such expectation existed here . |