Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] a long way [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Silver and I followed a long way behind the rest , and I had to help him . |
| 2 | Unhappily , such days do not come too often , for I live a long way from Ringwood and it is a very popular river in that area . |
| 3 | The Law Society have now introduced the Client Care Scheme , which goes a long way to bonding this relationship at the outset . |
| 4 | One study which goes a long way towards identifying dimensions of the culture of the shop floor , and the political relatedness of workers to their enterprise has been completed by Paul E. Willis . |
| 5 | Patronage was necessary , because it was expected that the member of parliament should be able to obtain it , a fact which goes a long way towards explaining the close links between so many Scots members of parliament and administration . |
| 6 | For it was he who arranged the finance which went a long way towards putting the station on the air . |
| 7 | Also on Oct. 17 the Supreme Soviet passed a decree which went a long way towards meeting other student demands , and secured an end to the protests . |
| 8 | At last there was room for a central bureau of information , which went a long way to reducing the confusion caused by overlapping responsibilities . |
| 9 | The reader should be aware , however , that recent years have seen the enactment of a number of important statutory forms of liability in particular areas of exceptional risk which go a long way towards avoiding the likelihood of protracted litigation inherent in the ill-defined nature of the rules of strict liability at common law . |
| 10 | The regulations , which go a long way towards updating the older health and safety laws , cover a wide range of basic health , safety and welfare issues . |
| 11 | Although she lived a long way from the town , she seldom missed Brownie Pack Meeting . |
| 12 | Did you say these used to rub your toes when you went a long way in them ? |
| 13 | At least one of them will have the whippier shaft which , I suspect , might in itself go a long way to doing the trick . ’ |
| 14 | Fire extinguishers for home use are not generally recommended by fire prevention experts , except as a safeguard it you live a long way from your nearest fire station . |
| 15 | We felt a long way from the Mediterranean . |
| 16 | These may seem trivial examples , but they go a long way towards helping teachers assess the success of different parts of the school in which they work and , ultimately , that of the whole institution . |
| 17 | The new proposals on water competition were introduced following our discussion in Committee , and they go a long way to improving competition in the water industry . |
| 18 | Taken together they go a long way in explaining the birth and persistence of aesthetic modernism . |
| 19 | The opinion polls showed him lagging a long way behind the front-runners and suggested that he was going to fare very poorly in the New Hampshire contest . |
| 20 | It seemed a long way to the building , but eventually she heard his footsteps on wood and knew they had arrived . |
| 21 | Try to get a small amount of airbrake on and keep the glider off the ground as long as you can , even if it floats a long way into the airfield . |
| 22 | And then there 's a , a series of er oh and they add er er during the people 's governments or at or above the may in accordance with the local land agency set apart certain land bound to be nationalized and used for the establishment of experimental farms or one or more county 's or model state farms , so there 's provision for the creation of so a form of socialism over the countryside but it 's , it comes a long way down the list . |
| 23 | The document before us goes a long way towards providing for the independence of the monetary institution , which will be a crucial element in the success of a single currency . |
| 24 | All of us felt a long way from the happy days when ‘ we never had it so good ’ . |