Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] a [adj] way [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such recognition could help temper the arrogance of some Western thinkers — an arrogance that goes a long way to explain why some have found relativism so attractive . |
| 2 | 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 ’ . |
| 3 | The Model builds on OS/2 2.0 and the System Object Model of the Workplace Shell , an object-oriented schema that provides a standard way to write class libraries and a general-purpose mechanism for communicating between objects . |
| 4 | Shearer has not proved himself yet and has a long way to go . ’ |
| 5 | If you do n't , tear up the appraisal farms today and find a better way to assess performance and make profit . |
| 6 | A further decree in 1982 , this time initiated by a civilian government , reinforced state control of the banking and finance sectors and went a little way to encourage Nigerian capital to invest more in the manufacturing sector . |
| 7 | He 'd spent a long time twisting bits of wire together and finding a safe way to steal electricity from the fusebox . |
| 8 | The woman was in black stilettoes , walking slowly and evidently in pain — as if she had walked into the country in inappropriate shoes and was blistered and had a long way to go , as if this hot summer wind from the chalk hills was almost too much for her . |
| 9 | I 'm fifty and have a long way to go . |