Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] a long [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This decision goes a long way towards demonstrating the untenability of the marital-rape exemption in modern times . |
| 2 | WHATEVER YOU 'RE PLANNING TO BUY YOUR MONEY GOES A LONG WAY WITH ABBEY NATIONAL |
| 3 | Bourdieu goes a long way to remedying this defect in his treatment of actual practices in his structure ( fields ) . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The convent has a long tradition of illustrating cards and books with delicate hand-crafted watercolours and inscriptions . |
| 6 | Literature has a long history of feminist interest , but film and media studies are certainly as central to feminist cultural debates . |
| 7 | The man found in the Queen 's bedroom admitted a long list of offences . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The Social Work Department has a long tradition of working in collaboration with other service providers . |
| 11 | This kind of research has a long history in psychology and education but is relatively undeveloped in the rest of social science . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | It seemed to Lefevre that the splash took a long time in coming . |
| 14 | The fighting cast a long shadow over the UN peace-keeping operation in Croatia , where the first infantry units arrived over the weekend . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | On Europe , the Leader of the Opposition gave a long answer during the Queen 's Speech debate on 31 October . |
| 17 | Cancer research had a long tradition of support from private contributions , but new charities devoted to particular diseases , such as arthritis and rheumatism , leukaemia , and muscular dystrophy , were founded and became a great source of strength to workers whose interests had or might have application to the desired objectives . |
| 18 | I remember a Rhodesian in our squadron writing a long letter to the ‘ Malta Times ’ about this very subject , but I do n't think it was ever published . ’ |
| 19 | Thus the Act goes a long way in smoothing the path of the prosecutor . |
| 20 | The Queen heads a long list of lenders of the more than 700 objects in the exhibition . |
| 21 | The agronomists ’ reports on the spring-sowing campaign reveal a long list of mainly unfulfilled bureaucratic resolutions passed down from Moscow . |
| 22 | His philosophy took a long time to be appreciated , partly because he never pushed his own work , which was subsequently overshadowed by that of Wittgenstein . |
| 23 | Persuading a child to take a long course of medicine is usually a struggle , as children often dislike the taste . |
| 24 | To take one example , in November 1987 the North-West Regional News introduced by Stuart Hall had a long feature as their opening item : |
| 25 | The immigration issue left a long legacy of US Japanese hostility which surfaced in the injustices suffered by many US citizens of Japanese descent during the war with Japan , 1941–5 . |
| 26 | JOHN BARNES last night faced up to the fact that he must make speedy progress to avoid a long spell in the international wilderness . |
| 27 | The purchase of a call option on a futures contract gives the owner the right to acquire a long position in the futures contract at a set price ( the exercise or striking price ) during ( or at the end of ) a specified time period . |
| 28 | Whether it 's a long-term or short-term problem you will find gentle exercise and relaxation through yoga will be beneficial to you mentally and physically , and we always find that a good massage goes a long way to easing tension and making you feel better . |
| 29 | The perpetuation of the old sources of strife goes a long way towards explaining why party conflict continued after the Glorious Revolution , which will be the theme of the following chapter . |
| 30 | ‘ The writer of this article lives a long way from Washington and would not know the answers to these questions . ’ |