Example sentences of "go a long way [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You would have to go a long way to see a better game than that . |
| 2 | But he said : ’ You endeavoured to go a long way to cover your tracks by disposing of the apparatus . |
| 3 | Besides this , it goes a long way to account for their toughness , as we shall see in Chapter 9 . |
| 4 | The Course also goes a long way to accommodate the not uncommon student experience of making a mistaken choice of degree subject . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Plant selection , therefore , goes a long way to help the organic gardener . |
| 7 | The recently published book Collecting Lustreware goes a long way to correct such assumptions , for it gives a comprehensive account of all British pottery and porcelain manufacturers who are known to have made and/or decorated lustreware — and there was no shortage of them . |
| 8 | 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 ’ . |
| 9 | Proposals such as these went a long way to alleviate Chinese concerns and brought closer the possibility of a summit meeting between the two leaderships for which Soviet spokesmen had for some time been calling . |
| 10 | Certainly we have gone a long way to improve the ‘ traditional ’ British Rail sandwich . ’ |
| 11 | They also argue that the latest draft of the charter , drawn up by President Mitterrand , has already gone a long way to assuage Mrs Thatcher 's legitimate fears about the loss of British sovereignty . |
| 12 | This minor impediment for the flanker is just sufficient to allow a fraction more time and space for the half-back to get things moving and has gone a long way to assist in opening the game up . |
| 13 | I think the Home Secretary has gone a long way to meet many anxieties which were expressed |
| 14 | The government 's measures to secure more planning permissions for housing development will go a long way to remedy the shortage of building land and so remove the occasion for windfall profits based on scarcity values . |
| 15 | Nonetheless , the changes in employment by product sectors which we have reported at Table 5.3 , that is , changes in national ‘ industrial structure ’ , will go a long way to explain the concentration of de-industrialization in regions of the ‘ North ’ , with all its effects on population ( Chapter 4 ) . |
| 16 | Aristocratic rivalries might go a long way to explain the ineffectiveness of English armies , as one of the chronicler 's few detailed descriptions of internal affairs indicates . |
| 17 | When they thud through the letter-box , £150 will go a long way to ease your mind . |
| 18 | The plan 's changes should go a long way to drag Lloyd 's up to the standards of other financial markets . |