Example sentences of "a long way [prep] [v-ing] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 Analysed , considered and acted upon these facts and the others also available from your sales ledger can go a long way towards helping you make your business more efficient and profitable .
2 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 .
3 From being a simple pleasure that had helped take her mind off her troubles , it had now gone a long way towards restoring her rather battered pride .
4 This will also go a long way towards preventing your neighbour complaining about the noise you make .
5 There is a problem with pollution with visual intrusion and noise intrusion which needs to be solved and this goes a long way towards solving it .
6 MICHAEL Roberts has certainly gone a long way towards silencing his critics in the past week .
7 Teclis was stronger now , the potions of the Loremasters had gone a long way towards giving him mortal strength .
8 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 .
9 In the meantime this recording should go a long way to helping his cause .
10 The WYSIWYG add-in goes a long way to helping you see how your masterpiece will eventually print out — but only approximately ( it 's pretty much like Windows 1-2-3 in that respect ! ) .
11 Satisfactory tenants would at least keep the house warm and protected , as well as producing an income that would go a long way to meeting your expenses .
12 After all , that is the first thing about us that others see and a well-groomed , well-dressed image reflected back at us from the mirror goes a long way to bolstering our private and public confidence .
13 You may not end up with an athlete 's heart through aerobic walking , but you will have gone a long way to improving its strength and efficiency , thus ensuring a longer and healthier life .
14 Little Renaissance furniture survives intact , and the present catalogue will go a long way to furthering its understanding .
15 People do n't usually hit out unless they are upset or angry , so showing you understand their feelings goes a long way to preventing them from expressing that anger towards you .
16 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 .
17 The problems faced by princes go a long way to explaining their activities during the lifetimes of their fathers , especially their hostility to their stepmothers .
18 The political and economic origins of this approach to soil conservation go a long way to explaining it .
19 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 .
20 She was a long way from believing him .
21 Guido elaborated , ‘ I 'm afraid I 'm still a long way from forgiving your brother for his irresponsible behaviour . ’
22 Sometimes the image they create may be a long way from expressing their real character but the search is on — through fashions , chats with friends , reactions from boyfriends — to find a style that suits their temperament and physical type .
23 And it annoyed her intensely , not least of all because she still felt a long way from figuring him out !
24 The new appointments demonstrate a commitment by the Saatchi brothers to restore the company 's fortunes and suggest they are a long way from turning their backs on the business they built .
25 Despite what may have appeared as the rejuvenation of an all-but-lost career , Solly is still a long way from committing himself to the marathon .
26 ‘ 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 .
27 Their staff were generally willing to ‘ have a go ’ , and with some information and support went a long way in challenging their own attitudes and those of other children and parents .
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