Example sentences of "a [adj] [noun] to go before [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | AVCs are a very efficient way of saving , especially if you have only a few years to go before you retire . |
| 2 | But it might be as well for those of you with just a few years to go before you have to repay your loan to check with your insurance company that there 's going to be enough in the kitty to repay it . |
| 3 | Even if he survived the present crisis with its unusually heavy demands on resources , there were still a few weeks to go before he received his allocation for the next year . |
| 4 | The nationality rule was a beautiful get-out for them , but I only had a few months to go before I 'd been here for ten years and would have been entitled to fight for the title . |
| 5 | " I know I 'll be all right because there 's a few steps to go before it gets to that , " she said , " but some of the lasses would n't know that . " |
| 6 | But now , with only a little while to go before she must join him in the sitting-room , she was starting to have second thoughts about the wisdom of accepting . |
| 7 | A Union of Democratic Forces spokesman , Mr Georgi Spassov , said : ‘ This demonstrates that we have a long way to go before we have true democracy in Bulgaria . ’ |
| 8 | Sadly one has to conclude , if the illustrations of lessons reported in the published text are anything to go by ( and one can hardly conceive that the team held back good lessons ) then we still have a long way to go before we can claim with confidence that drama on the curriculum guarantees good education . |
| 9 | So it is clear we have a long way to go before we can store up all the experiences of humankind . |
| 10 | ‘ We have a long way to go before we are able to record and translate accurately such imprints of ourselves left behind in the void of time . |
| 11 | ‘ There is a long way to go before we break down the ‘ them up at Salisbury ’ attitude . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ There 's a long way to go before we break down the ‘ them up at Salisbury attitude ’ |
| 13 | Only in the last few years have real efforts been made to equalize provision for different groups of the disabled and there is still a long way to go before we can claim to have adequate social security in this area . |
| 14 | This leads me to believe that the questions surrounding male/female relationships are not simple , and we have a long way to go before we can simply pursue the ‘ if only men would ’ formula . |
| 15 | In spite of very real gains in knowledge , there is a long way to go before we can fully understand why one person is more likely to become mentally ill than another . |
| 16 | Det Insp Gordon Williams added : ‘ We still have a long way to go before we reach our target . |
| 17 | In an ideal world we would be recycling and re-using everything , but this is n't possible and we have a long way to go before we can turn all our waste into a resource . |
| 18 | But markets provide useful competition with local banks , which have a long way to go before they learn to allocate capital efficiently . |
| 19 | Unfortunately , as this book points out , some of the alternatives may look good on paper but they have a long way to go before they can match the tokamak . |
| 20 | The Welsh lads have a long way to go before they match that sort of consistency , but it only needs one to become a permanent fixture for everything to change . |
| 21 | Others , focusing on issues such as the inequality in the wages paid to men and women or the violence that women receive at men 's hands , argue that women still have a long way to go before they are fully liberated . |
| 22 | At present , we are the only party prepared to grasp the nettle and to recognise that consumers ' interests require both effective competition in the marketplace — the Government have a long way to go before they create that — and effective regulation where the market can not produce a solution . |
| 23 | And no matter how fresh the lads might get they 'll have a long way to go before they reach your handling , wo n't they , Andrew ? ’ |
| 24 | Actors explain that although ’ Family Pride ’ sets a good precedent , there is still a long way to go before they get more mainstream parts . |
| 25 | ‘ I 've got a long way to go before I 'm thirty , ’ she 'd say . |
| 26 | But he 's a long way to go before I 'd consider him a success . |
| 27 | Er and that is , that is one of the problems within the flats , that having got , once got into the complex you might have quite a long way to go before you actually find where you 're going . |
| 28 | You 've got a long way to go before you can set up on your own . |
| 29 | The Oxenhope Straw Race has a long way to go before it reaches its centenary , but the aims of the people who organise it and take part are the same as those who in the nineteenth century began the hospital sings at Holmfirth and Mapplewell . |
| 30 | The DTI still has a long way to go before it can seriously contest the Treasury 's hegemony over matters economic . |