Example sentences of "[verb] a long way [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Course also goes a long way to accommodate the not uncommon student experience of making a mistaken choice of degree subject . |
| 2 | Plant selection , therefore , goes a long way to help the organic gardener . |
| 3 | 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 ’ . |
| 4 | Certainly we have gone a long way to improve the ‘ traditional ’ British Rail sandwich . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I appreciate that the television companies have to get the best shots of the game or we 'd complain about that , but I think they should bear in mind those people who have paid to see the game and , in some cases like mine , travelled a long way to see the match . |