Example sentences of "[vb mod] go a [adj] way " in BNC.

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1 In the meantime this recording should go a long way to helping his cause .
2 Our exclusive interview with Steffi elsewhere in this issue should go a long way to satisfying the demands of her fans , many of whom continue to demand more and more information about their favourite player .
3 The plan 's changes should go a long way to drag Lloyd 's up to the standards of other financial markets .
4 Together with thick carpet and underfelt , it should go a long way to pleasing the occupants of the flat below .
5 ‘ 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 .
6 Captain George Sutherland , director of marine operations for Shetland Island Council , said : ‘ The proposals for traffic separation should go a long way to providing protection for the adjacent coastline and we are content with the measures . ’
7 The new directives should go a long way to ensuring that employers do not abuse their employees in terms of unsafe working practice , practices .
8 Now one must go a long way upriver to find them , far into Sudan and Uganda .
9 To escape from Heathcliff I must go a long way away .
10 Local conditions must go a long way to explaining why some villages were vulnerable to enclosure and others were not , and these variations could occur within the limits of a single shire .
11 ‘ He 'll go a long way out of his way for something he likes to eat , will your average fox .
12 Jack 'll go a different way .
13 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 .
14 He believed that parliamentary government could go a great way towards securing personal liberty but ‘ neither parliamentary government nor any other form of constitution … will ever of itself remove all or half the sufferings of human beings .
15 If applied on an institutional scale it could abolish the deficit of cadaveric transplants and could go a long way towards solving the moral problem that continues to exercise me and my colleagues . ’
16 The feminine touch in the car showroom could go a long way towards clinching a deal , the Retail Motor Industry Federation said yesterday .
17 That could go a long way towards avoiding car payments .
18 We will have more success at slowing world population growth if we see it as problem of enabling women in poor countries to have control over their own reproduction , which some carefully targeted development aid could go a long way towards achieving .
19 This election could go a long way to sorting that out .
20 ‘ And they 'd go a long way to ‘ elp ‘ im if ever ‘ e ‘ ad a problem . ’
21 Lastly , careful use of space in the table layout may go a long way towards helpful guiding of the eye .
22 Government policy was aimed at reducing the number of smokers in the country and an advertising ban would go a good way to achieving this , he said .
23 Murray confirmed only that the deal had been agreed and that it would go a long way towards cutting Rangers ' overdraft of £9.5 million .
24 That , stated Coopers & Lybrand/Cork Gully in their guide to the Cork Report , would go a long way towards remedying the shortcomings of the present system .
25 I suppose the fact that I 'd made it at the age of 14 was important because it meant I would go a long way in athletics .
26 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 .
27 A large microcomputer system with an extensive range of hardware devices and large block of extra machine-code routines is very flexible and powerful , and would go a long way to meeting the requirements of the program designer , but in realistic terms such a system would be too expensive for most schools at present .
28 Quite clearly , a small percentage reduction in wastage would go a long way to easing the manpower problems .
29 If it were made good , it would go a long way towards providing a justification for denying English the place in our educational system which we demand for it .
30 A little espionage would go a long way — that sort of thing .
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