Example sentences of "would go a long way " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Quite clearly , a small percentage reduction in wastage would go a long way to easing the manpower problems . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | A little espionage would go a long way — that sort of thing . |
| 9 | If you could try to look as if you 're being guarded , it would go a long way . |
| 10 | As my right hon. Friend the shadow Home Secretary emphasised , a Freedom of Information Act which we would introduce would go a long way to improving all our freedoms . |
| 11 | An extended speed limit would go a long way towards making this road safer for all users and would be relatively inexpensive . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | So if we could use , insist on issuing licences , that would go a long way to sorting some of these of these problems out . |
| 14 | But size is n't everything and a quality performance from Henry Cecil 's colt — or any other runner — would go a long way towards salvaging the historic event 's ailing reputation . |
| 15 | ‘ This hostel would go a long way towards that . |