Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] a long [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Little was known about the products of many of these areas , and much research still needs to be done but Collecting Lustreware goes a long way to redressing the balance .
2 This decision goes a long way towards demonstrating the untenability of the marital-rape exemption in modern times .
3 WHATEVER YOU 'RE PLANNING TO BUY YOUR MONEY GOES A LONG WAY WITH ABBEY NATIONAL
4 Bourdieu goes a long way to remedying this defect in his treatment of actual practices in his structure ( fields ) .
5 Although this technique has a long ancestry in the Old World it was unknown in the Americas until the Spanish conquest in the sixteenth century .
6 Alba Adriatica has a long beach of fine , golden sand where holiday life is taken at a relaxed unhurried pace .
7 The convent has a long tradition of illustrating cards and books with delicate hand-crafted watercolours and inscriptions .
8 The approach of classroom testing against the hearing norms has a long tradition among educators and researchers .
9 Literature has a long history of feminist interest , but film and media studies are certainly as central to feminist cultural debates .
10 It is possibly true of ‘ Bonn ’ : Germany has a long tradition of unease about England which has been kept alive.and well in influential papers such as Die Zeit and elsewhere .
11 No Hiding Place Sitting containers on pallets or bricks goes a long way toward preventing them from harbouring all kinds of pests under their bottoms .
12 The man found in the Queen 's bedroom admitted a long list of offences .
13 They 're added to marzipan to improve its flavour and keeping qualities , and a little oil of bitter almonds goes a long way in much confectionery .
14 The interpretation of ‘ mind ’ as information processing with a self-monitoring facility called consciousness goes a long way towards resolving the problem of body — mind interaction which Popper and Eccles ( 1978 ) have recently revived .
15 The plan to make unions responsible for unofficial action arose out of the strikes in the summer on the London Underground , where an informal group of drivers and guards led a long series of stoppages over pay .
16 Labour has a long list of priorities : a £3 billion pledge on pensions — presumably health comes after that ; health presumably comes after Labour 's £1 billion recovery programme and it presumably comes after Labour 's £8 billion housing pledge .
17 The Social Work Department has a long tradition of working in collaboration with other service providers .
18 Established in 1912 , Olympus has a long tradition of good design , using the finest materials and quality craftsmanship .
19 This kind of research has a long history in psychology and education but is relatively undeveloped in the rest of social science .
20 This became pronounced in 1949 when the College secured a long lease on two houses , 21 and 23 Cromwell Road , into one of which they moved the Senior and Junior Common Rooms , formerly housed in a hut in Queensgate .
21 It seemed to Lefevre that the splash took a long time in coming .
22 DAMON Hill went a long way towards fulfilling the hopes of his family and army of fans when he grabbed provisional pole position for Sunday 's Monaco Grand Prix .
23 Good selection procedures and thorough briefing sessions go a long way towards making an overseas assignment a success .
24 The fighting cast a long shadow over the UN peace-keeping operation in Croatia , where the first infantry units arrived over the weekend .
25 By putting car parks a long way from vulnerable spots , it 's hoped the long ‘ walk-in ’ will mean fewer people reach places under threat .
26 On Europe , the Leader of the Opposition gave a long answer during the Queen 's Speech debate on 31 October .
27 Glendenning follows a long trail of Darlington players who have gone to Rovers , but he is unable to force his way into the first team .
28 The male Moodies had a long history of accidental death .
29 He said that the republican leaders had discussed at the meeting financial and other support for Gorbachev " in the period after his resignation " , and he and Gorbachev had a long meeting on Dec. 23 to discuss transition arrangements .
30 In fact City handed him his goal on a plate as defenders Peter Atherton and David Busst left a long clearance to each other , and Wright stole in to clinch the outcome .
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