Example sentences of "[art] long [noun sg] towards " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is undoubtedly an area where further advice , guidance , encouragement and practical support now , could be of considerable benefit in the long run towards co-ordinating the current uneven and inequitable distribution of in-service training . |
| 2 | I say it was on the cards because throughout the match the Scousers used the tactic of playing the long ball towards Rush and it was then quite simply a one-on-one race with either Fairclough or Newsome . |
| 3 | Rowe , for example , believes the Act will be recorded in history as ‘ another milestone in the long progress towards recognising children as persons and not the possessions of adults ’ . |
| 4 | Earlier that day , when school had ended at a quarter to four , Hilary Frome had walked down the long road towards Cullbridge with Willis and Quigly . |
| 5 | The long passageway towards the platform was spotless , gleaming like a hospital ward . |
| 6 | Once over the peak , during the long decline towards Fort Augustus , the troops would also have been highly vulnerable to bombardment , before reaching an even more dangerous point , a ravine crossed by a bridge . |
| 7 | It would not have been possible for the long progression towards the perfect physical being , to have ever occurred at all , if it were encumbered by the constraints of compassion , an emotion which , by the very nature of evolution was completely non-existent before the dawn of civilisation . |
| 8 | A consistent orientation of the long axis towards 40–60 degrees east was found . |
| 9 | At the end of teaching , the long street towards the centre of Cullbridge was for a time a babble of noise , with scuffles , cap-snatching and schoolboy indecencies hurled from green-blazered groups on one side to green-blazered groups on the other . |
| 10 | Even so , we are taking the first steps in a long journey towards an understanding of the body clock and the way it adjusts to our environment . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Mr Gandhi has an election coming up and a big one-day cricket tournament not only goes down well with the electorate , but also goes a long way towards providing a short-term solution to the unemployment problem . |
| 13 | The Thatcher governments have gone a long way towards puncturing claims about the power of the unions . |
| 14 | Murray confirmed only that the deal had been agreed and that it would go a long way towards cutting Rangers ' overdraft of £9.5 million . |
| 15 | If applied on an institutional scale it could abolish the deficit of cadaveric transplants and could go a long way towards solving the moral problem that continues to exercise me and my colleagues . ’ |
| 16 | Indeed the latest text has gone a long way towards meeting the UK 's objections . ’ |
| 17 | But the headlining act — a quartet splicing the former Miles Davis guitarist John Scofield with the British saxophonist Andy Sheppard — struck fireworks that went a long way towards helping the audience breathe out after some dodgy moments during the presentations . |
| 18 | The ministerial position went a long way towards meeting the US criteria , but the British side had worries as well . |
| 19 | Modern petrological studies have gone a long way towards answering this question : polished hard-rock axes seem to have been made from stone obtained from a limited number of outcrops . |
| 20 | If we can achieve this , we have gone a long way towards solving the axe typology problem since groups of similarly shaped axes would appear as distinct clusters on the page and could be easily identified by eye . |
| 21 | This decision goes a long way towards demonstrating the untenability of the marital-rape exemption in modern times . |
| 22 | By the middle of the fourth century , Christianity had gone a long way towards assimilating the dominant culture of pagan Romans . |
| 23 | This last reform , which would simultaneously go a long way towards solving the unemployment problem and the housing problem , would also transform the social scene . |
| 24 | The feminine touch in the car showroom could go a long way towards clinching a deal , the Retail Motor Industry Federation said yesterday . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The mayor also outlined plans which , if implemented , would have gone a long way towards mopping up the demand for houses in Derry . |
| 27 | The new , improved materials available have gone a long way towards extending the lifespan of today 's flat roof . |
| 28 | It seems to me that this difference in the structure of the schedules goes a long way towards explaining in industrial terms the relative stasis of British television subgenres like sitcom , crime series and soap opera , and the drive towards innovation found in the corresponding genres on US television . |
| 29 | Perhaps it will make dealing with such a situation a little easier if we realise that there really is a reason for it and that the way in which we handle it may well go a long way towards aiding our spiritual development . |
| 30 | These facts go a long way towards explaining why the bream is not generally recognised as a hard-fighting fish . |