Example sentences of "[noun] have go a long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed the latest text has gone a long way towards meeting the UK 's objections . ’ |
| 2 | And in fact patient research has gone a long way towards resolving this knotty problem . |
| 3 | Cuba has gone a long way to reducing gender inequalities , though power relations still clearly favour men , a fact of which all Cubans , including their leaders , are very aware . |
| 4 | The Community has gone a long way towards achieving that central purpose ; towards taming nationalism without suppressing patriotism ; towards sharing sovereignty without destroying nations ; and towards putting the magic of markets to work for society in a stable democratic setting . |
| 5 | Teclis was stronger now , the potions of the Loremasters had gone a long way towards giving him mortal strength . |
| 6 | The Thatcher governments have gone a long way towards puncturing claims about the power of the unions . |
| 7 | Modern petrological studies have gone a long way towards answering this question : polished hard-rock axes seem to have been made from stone obtained from a limited number of outcrops . |
| 8 | I think the Home Secretary has gone a long way to meet many anxieties which were expressed |
| 9 | Fortunately , our neutering scheme has gone a long way to alleviating this problem . ’ |
| 10 | By the 1680s the old-fashioned cavalry of the pomeshchiks had disappeared as an independent force , the streltsy were restricted to internal policing duties , and Muscovy had gone a long way towards establishing a professional army . |
| 11 | A long time in the dark and he d have to go a long way round if he was n't to upset the sheep and alert Jack . |
| 12 | By the middle of the fourth century , Christianity had gone a long way towards assimilating the dominant culture of pagan Romans . |