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

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1 Many folks go a long way up the Bulger to fix a high runner and top-rope the move , but this is a bit naughty , and it wo n't help you on the upper slab .
2 These facts go a long way towards explaining why the bream is not generally recognised as a hard-fighting fish .
3 These may seem trivial examples , but they go a long way towards helping teachers assess the success of different parts of the school in which they work and , ultimately , that of the whole institution .
4 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 .
5 Good selection procedures and thorough briefing sessions go a long way towards making an overseas assignment a success .
6 Those local authorities that are investing in the necessary shredders and mechanical mixers are finding that the savings of landfill charges go a long way towards paying for the environmental gain .
7 The reader should be aware , however , that recent years have seen the enactment of a number of important statutory forms of liability in particular areas of exceptional risk which go a long way towards avoiding the likelihood of protracted litigation inherent in the ill-defined nature of the rules of strict liability at common law .
8 ‘ Your own stories go a long way towards doing that . ’
9 The regulations , which go a long way towards updating the older health and safety laws , cover a wide range of basic health , safety and welfare issues .
10 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 .
11 The political and economic origins of this approach to soil conservation go a long way to explaining it .
12 Now , diver deployment systems are accepted as normal offshore practise , and go a long way to making commercial diving safer .
13 Three books on Clive Sinclair 's £125 colour computer , the ZX Spectrum , go a long way to dispelling both impressions .
14 THE picture above shows the ideal set-up for the modern work station , and the new EC regulations go a long way to achieving this .
15 ( A political party finds a surplus as large as this very gratifying , because the votes made available for transfer will , if voters are loyal , go a long way to ensuring the election of one or even two of its less popular candidates . )
16 The new proposals on water competition were introduced following our discussion in Committee , and they go a long way to improving competition in the water industry .
17 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 .
18 What it does is it means that there is a proper look each year at the finances of each individual firm er and er if there are things which are wrong , they are reported straight away and that really I think is the lesser of all of this with B C C I , er that er where things are not all they should be that they are dealt with and they are reported quickly and these orders , Madam Deputy Speaker , go a long way to helping to ensure that and for that reason I believe the house should warmly welcome them .
19 At least one of them will have the whippier shaft which , I suspect , might in itself go a long way to doing the trick . ’
20 Taken together they go a long way in explaining the birth and persistence of aesthetic modernism .
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