Example sentences of "go a long way [prep] explaining " in BNC.
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| 1 | These facts go a long way towards explaining why the bream is not generally recognised as a hard-fighting fish . |
| 2 | These religious tensions go a long way towards explaining why the party divide cut so deep into society : political strife during the first age of party did not just affect the political elite at the centre and a minority of the more affluent and better-educated classes in the localities , but all sorts of people , including those of fairly humble backgrounds , women as well as men , were caught up in the party divide . |
| 3 | The political and economic origins of this approach to soil conservation go a long way to explaining it . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Taken together they go a long way in explaining the birth and persistence of aesthetic modernism . |