Example sentences of "go a long way to explaining " in BNC.
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| 1 | The incident goes a long way to explaining Chapman 's later enthusiasm for floodlit football . |
| 2 | Health Secretary Virginia Bottomley is a regular , and the restaurant also goes a long way to explaining Home Secretary Kenneth Clarke 's well-rounded appearance . |
| 3 | That undoubtedly goes a long way to explaining the inspectors ' report . |
| 4 | The figures for applications heard by a single Lord Justice and two and three Lords Justices went a long way to explaining why , despite the facts that the rate at which appeals were begun had shown little change over the years , there had been some small increase in judge-power and that major improvements had been made in the court 's procedures , the number of appeals outstanding at the end of each year and the lead times for hearing appeals showed no real improvement . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The political and economic origins of this approach to soil conservation go a long way to explaining it . |
| 7 | 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 . |