Example sentences of "[conj] go a long way " in BNC.

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1	Such recognition could help temper the arrogance of some Western thinkers — an arrogance that goes a long way to explain why some have found relativism so attractive .
2	To meet the needs of piston-engine operators worldwide , a small number of specialist concerns thrive looking after the precious radial engine that go a long way towards making the DC-3 and DC-6 such economic miracle workers .
3	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 .
4	Troy did , however , use one phrase that went a long way to describe the film 's great success , for he spoke of how it illustrated that ‘ an honest documentation of familiar American actualities becomes in a Hollywood film more absorbing than intrigue in Monte Carlo or pig-sticking in Bengal ’ .
5	But they sweetened their reign of fear with occasional favours and a glaze of authority that went a long way in communities accustomed to neither .
6	Reluctant as he was to part with evidence that went a long way to exonerating Colin , he knew surrendering it voluntarily was vastly preferable to having it seized .
7	Those who question Taylor 's future were left to swallow a performance that went a long way to answering the questions against the England manager .
8	Indeed , I 'd probably sympathise and go a long way towards agreeing with those propositions if they were put to me .
9	Now , diver deployment systems are accepted as normal offshore practise , and go a long way to making commercial diving safer .
10	Education is seen to include some of this , but goes a long way beyond competence in application .
11	Environmentalists hailed the decision as going a long way towards meeting the demands of campaigns in favour of preserving Antarctica .

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