Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] a [adj] way [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A LITTLE goes a long way with UNICEF . |
| 2 | In Fox 's case , practice obviously goes a long way to making perfect . |
| 3 | The ‘ Pater Nostra ’ organisation , which will care for physically and mentally handicapped people in Atea , expect to find that by owning their own tractor they will not only go a long way to becoming self-sufficient but will be able to hire out the tractor locally to enhance their income . |
| 4 | At best , it provides a chance of doing something about it — repairing a bit of the past , perhaps finding a new way of handling difficult feelings and making them less dangerous . |
| 5 | It is likely that the implication of mothers Saving effort or time over the care of babies produces some anxiety ( guilt ) in them , unless the rationale is very acceptable , For the housewife , however , being economical and especially finding a particular way of reducing expenditure gives Satisfaction . |
| 6 | Your new low-fat , low-sugar , low-salt , high-fibre way of eating should be enjoyable enough to become a permanent way of life and be a tremendous help in preventing you from regaining weight . |
| 7 | If impressing less as a ‘ big ’ personality she nevertheless has a vivid way of making the developments real and present : for example , at the start of the Act 2 solo , ‘ que viens-je d'entendre ? ’ , she conveys , still more than Baker , the sense of the overheard talk having happened a minute or two before . |
| 8 | Goldthorpe thought that , if they had not adopted a middle-class way of life , then it was unlikely that any other working-class people had done so . |
| 9 | He does , in his own way , care for the club and football — he 's just got a funny way of showing it . ’ |
| 10 | The bank has already introduced a novel way of detecting credit crime . |
| 11 | In all , 255 young trees were planted , a huge task which was completed by the garden team at Nymans in ten days and which has already gone a good way towards restoring the diversity of colours , shapes and textures of conifers in their prime . |
| 12 | The computerised exchange — known as Direct Dialling In ( DDI ) — has already gone a long way to reducing delays for the thousands of callers daily using the Essex Rivers Healthcare Trust switchboards . |
| 13 | Owen Barfield , both in conversation and in writing , had already gone a long way in revealing to Lewis the fallacy of making sharp distinctions between ‘ myth ’ and ‘ fact ’ . |
| 14 | This traditional classification nevertheless remains a convenient way of approaching the task of describing the United Kingdom constitution . |
| 15 | to do , she 's just offering a different way of doing it . |
| 16 | Roderick was always seeking a better way of putting things in order to remove all possible ambiguities and to assist the reader to the maximum extent : if this meant rewriting 100 times he would gladly do it . |
| 17 | And it annoyed her intensely , not least of all because she still felt a long way from figuring him out ! |
| 18 | You money has always gone a long way in Thailand . |
| 19 | The fact that Smith was utterly and proudly northern and that The Fall has always encapsulated a northern way of life has lead to heavily denied speculation that The Smiths took their name from young Mark . |
| 20 | This is a real advantage when using the A2 live and also goes a long way to keeping the engineer happy in the studio , without taking precious minutes to reprogram . |
| 21 | Health Secretary Virginia Bottomley is a regular , and the restaurant also goes a long way to explaining Home Secretary Kenneth Clarke 's well-rounded appearance . |
| 22 | Mr Gandhi has an election coming up and a big one-day cricket tournament not only goes down well with the electorate , but also goes a long way towards providing a short-term solution to the unemployment problem . |
| 23 | Britain urgently needs a better way of making economic decisions . |
| 24 | As a result , the DES set up a study group under the chairmanship of Stephen Jones , at that time an assistant secretary at the DES and now Assistant Provost of the City of London Polytechnic , both to suggest a fairer way of allocating the 1981–2 pool and also to come forward with longer-term recommendations , based on unit costs within the institutions . |
| 25 | In these he has tried to reflect not only the period in which their music was written but also to devise a particular way of dancing inspired by the structure and tone of the particular piece of music ( see page 41 ) . |
| 26 | However , he also went a long way towards showing that this apparent conflict could be reconciled by isolating ways in which the two ideals were similar . |
| 27 | If we were to decriminalize drug taking we would probably go a long way down the road to solving the problem . |
| 28 | This will also go a long way towards preventing your neighbour complaining about the noise you make . |
| 29 | The commission 's guidelines would also prescribe a standard way of testing hardware . |
| 30 | Armed with this hypothesis , they set out to find a convenient way of reducing carbon monoxide that might avoid the expensive catalysts and energy intensive conditions of Fischer-Tropsch chemistry — an industrial process that converts carbon monoxide and hydrogen synthesis gas to mixtures of organic compounds . |