Example sentences of "[verb] a long [noun] [to-vb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've come a long way to make a reconciliation with him , and I do n't want interference from some snooty cocktail waitress . |
| 2 | They 've had a long time to crack a lot of these problems pardon |
| 3 | He was prepared to wait a long time to gain the king 's good will , and meanwhile to support the king in his enterprises . |
| 4 | ‘ You would have to go a long way to see a better game than that . |
| 5 | The Course also goes a long way to accommodate the not uncommon student experience of making a mistaken choice of degree subject . |
| 6 | Plant selection , therefore , goes a long way to help the organic gardener . |
| 7 | The second — Mr Lawson 's line -that demand is indeed slowing down , but that it takes a long time to affect the balance of payments . |
| 8 | It takes a long time to visit every house in the neighbourhood — and enjoy some hospitality while one is there . ’ |
| 9 | Bernie Ecclestone , however , feels guardedly optimistic , ‘ It always takes a long time to get an F1 race up and running in the US , ’ he said . |
| 10 | It is not fair to expect your local delicatessen to do it for you as it takes a long time to slice the whole ham and Parma must be cut thinly . |
| 11 | Also the fragility of the grammar — there are a number of features that are not covered by the grammar and it often takes a long time to reject the sentence . |
| 12 | But it will take a long time to change the Romanian attitude . |
| 13 | Even when peace is restored , it will take a long time to get the parks operating normally again . |
| 14 | Troy did , however , use one phrase that went a long way to describe the film 's great success , for he spoke of how it illustrated that ‘ an honest documentation of familiar American actualities becomes in a Hollywood film more absorbing than intrigue in Monte Carlo or pig-sticking in Bengal ’ . |
| 15 | Certainly we have gone a long way to improve the ‘ traditional ’ British Rail sandwich . ’ |
| 16 | Use a long knife to carve the breast . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Nonetheless , the changes in employment by product sectors which we have reported at Table 5.3 , that is , changes in national ‘ industrial structure ’ , will go a long way to explain the concentration of de-industrialization in regions of the ‘ North ’ , with all its effects on population ( Chapter 4 ) . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | It is taking a long time to redesign the business processes of these industries . |
| 21 | He took a long time to answer the door and his painful movements towards and into his armchair explained why . |
| 22 | O'Hara took a long time to kick-start the motorbike from the kerb . |
| 23 | It took a long time to bring the fire under control , the local pubs kept open for three days and nights . |
| 24 | Progress was slow and it took a long time to get a handicap , the first being 17 . |
| 25 | The morphological system can require a long time to obtain the syntactic information for a word . |
| 26 | Wound the stem 12–15in from its tip by making a long cut to form a tongue . |
| 27 | It has taken a long time to reduce the effects of that defect but it is now under control . |
| 28 | The reason why some people take a long time to learn the Technique is because it is much simpler than they think . |
| 29 | I have waited a long time to catch The Economist out on an egregious factual error . |
| 30 | Development banks tend to take a long time to evaluate a project and are likely to impose conditions such as putting out all construction and equipment contracts to competitive tender . |