Example sentences of "[noun] [modal v] [vb infin] a long way " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ This afternoon 's coverage should go a long way in helping you set up your own firm , ’ he said , wiping his hands on a serviette . |
| 2 | The feminine touch in the car showroom could go a long way towards clinching a deal , the Retail Motor Industry Federation said yesterday . |
| 3 | We will have more success at slowing world population growth if we see it as problem of enabling women in poor countries to have control over their own reproduction , which some carefully targeted development aid could go a long way towards achieving . |
| 4 | EIGHT hours of athletics at Bebington on Saturday will go a long way to deciding who goes on a two-day trip to Blackpool next month . |
| 5 | Since very small , light animals can fall a long way without being hurt , it 's quite likely that it survived in the forest world under the tree and had the second most interesting experience any tree frog has ever had . |
| 6 | In addition to the occasional attendance at rehearsals by the incumbent , positive words of appreciation can go a long way in making the musician feel that the job is worthwhile . |
| 7 | Our exclusive interview with Steffi elsewhere in this issue should go a long way to satisfying the demands of her fans , many of whom continue to demand more and more information about their favourite player . |
| 8 | Captain George Sutherland , director of marine operations for Shetland Island Council , said : ‘ The proposals for traffic separation should go a long way to providing protection for the adjacent coastline and we are content with the measures . ’ |
| 9 | Aristocratic rivalries might go a long way to explain the ineffectiveness of English armies , as one of the chronicler 's few detailed descriptions of internal affairs indicates . |
| 10 | ‘ That girl will go a long way — ’ |
| 11 | The head of the Exchange 's advertising department Boris Goldman believes that the opening of the exchange will go a long way to breaking the mafia art market in which Western and Russian intermediaries often knock down prices on Russian works of art . |
| 12 | ‘ Broke , and I can see that 2.1 disappearing over the event horizon , but fuck it ; I 've still got my integrity and my Möbius scarf , and a boy can go a long way with those things . |
| 13 | This election could go a long way to sorting that out . |
| 14 | PLANTS should come a long way down the list of priorities for the novice gardener . |
| 15 | Its adoption and implementation throughout the Community will go a long way towards ensuring equal conditions for UK investors exploring opportunities in other Member States . |
| 16 | Moreover , your sterling will go a long way — not a small consideration . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The plan 's changes should go a long way to drag Lloyd 's up to the standards of other financial markets . |
| 19 | The new directives should go a long way to ensuring that employers do not abuse their employees in terms of unsafe working practice , practices . |
| 20 | The government 's measures to secure more planning permissions for housing development will go a long way to remedy the shortage of building land and so remove the occasion for windfall profits based on scarcity values . |
| 21 | An extended speed limit would go a long way towards making this road safer for all users and would be relatively inexpensive . |
| 22 | THE brilliant and well documented hurling skills of Kilkenny 's DJ Carey will go a long way towards determining the outcome of today 's big match in Croke Park . |
| 23 | And Monday 's game will go a long way towards determining Wright 's future . |
| 24 | When they thud through the letter-box , £150 will go a long way to ease your mind . |
| 25 | Little Renaissance furniture survives intact , and the present catalogue will go a long way to furthering its understanding . |
| 26 | Schema theory can go a long way towards explaining the sender 's choice and arrangement of information in communication . |
| 27 | A good footnote can go a long way . |
| 28 | A little espionage would go a long way — that sort of thing . |
| 29 | For those contemplating a university course , graduation may seem a long way off — 1997 and beyond — and thoughts of what to do afterwards may understandably be equally distant . |
| 30 | In the meantime this recording should go a long way to helping his cause . |