Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [verb] a [adj] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | They also argue that the latest draft of the charter , drawn up by President Mitterrand , has already gone a long way to assuage Mrs Thatcher 's legitimate fears about the loss of British sovereignty . |
| 2 | The computerised exchange — known as Direct Dialling In ( DDI ) — has already gone a long way to reducing delays for the thousands of callers daily using the Essex Rivers Healthcare Trust switchboards . |
| 3 | In all , 255 young trees were planted , a huge task which was completed by the garden team at Nymans in ten days and which has already gone a good way towards restoring the diversity of colours , shapes and textures of conifers in their prime . |
| 4 | The bank has already introduced a novel way of detecting credit crime . |
| 5 | You money has always gone a long way in Thailand . |
| 6 | The fact that Smith was utterly and proudly northern and that The Fall has always encapsulated a northern way of life has lead to heavily denied speculation that The Smiths took their name from young Mark . |
| 7 | No matter how you feed your horse , somebody else ( usually a self confessed expert with little or no qualifications ) has always got a better way . |
| 8 | We want now to introduce a different way of categorizing elite theory approaches , one which does not derive from the historical streams of thinking described so far . |
| 9 | The SNP has indeed come a long way since Jim Sillars , as vice-president of the SNP , in a section of his Independence in Europe pamphlet ( June 1989 ) entitled ‘ The David Martin formula ’ , referred to Europe of the regions as a ‘ nebulous concept ’ . |
| 10 | MICHAEL Roberts has certainly gone a long way towards silencing his critics in the past week . |
| 11 | For the first few trips outside , you should plan only to go a short way , so that the patient can get used to the distracting sights and sounds . |
| 12 | Armed with this hypothesis , they set out to find a convenient way of reducing carbon monoxide that might avoid the expensive catalysts and energy intensive conditions of Fischer-Tropsch chemistry — an industrial process that converts carbon monoxide and hydrogen synthesis gas to mixtures of organic compounds . |
| 13 | When feeding characteristically run a little way and then stop , often bobbing head nervously ; head held up as if listening , not down like Knot ( p. 129 ) or Dunlin ( p. 127 ) . |
| 14 | We must keep open the option of withdrawal from Bosnia if the current peace negotiations do not provide a firm way forward . ’ |
| 15 | Owen Barfield , both in conversation and in writing , had already gone a long way in revealing to Lewis the fallacy of making sharp distinctions between ‘ myth ’ and ‘ fact ’ . |
| 16 | Mota had already come a long way since her schooldays when she ran away with the city , area and national cross-country championships . |
| 17 | Goldthorpe thought that , if they had not adopted a middle-class way of life , then it was unlikely that any other working-class people had done so . |
| 18 | Well , I 've just seen a new way forward |
| 19 | Our view , and the advice given us , is that the Bill does not represent a suitable way to deal with that problem . |
| 20 | Brothers , sisters , President , we 've still got a long way to go . |
| 21 | However , we 've still got a long way to go on working together with the health service ’ . |
| 22 | I know that some British civil servants are making considerable efforts to improve erm in these terms but erm I think we 've still got a long way to go in appreciating the importance of at least being able to understand somebody else 's language , erm even if you ca n't always erm communicate in it as well as you can in your own . |
| 23 | If you 're like me you 've still got a fair way to go ! |
| 24 | I do n't know , they 've probably gone a different way today |
| 25 | From being a simple pleasure that had helped take her mind off her troubles , it had now gone a long way towards restoring her rather battered pride . |
| 26 | This does n't seem a fair way of qualifying for the huge incentives on offer for a record . ’ |
| 27 | To require six cities virtually to embark on building an Olympic complex , five of which wo n't be needed , does n't look a prudent way of managing things . |
| 28 | ‘ Well , you 've certainly come a long way from the child who ran from me in that garden . ’ |
| 29 | Well , we 've certainly come a long way since Pliny 's day . |
| 30 | He does , in his own way , care for the club and football — he 's just got a funny way of showing it . ’ |