Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] a long way [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They also argue that the latest draft of the charter , drawn up by President Mitterrand , has already gone a long way to assuage Mrs Thatcher 's legitimate fears about the loss of British sovereignty . |
| 2 | He believes it still has a long way to go . |
| 3 | The stock still has a long way to go before its regains the 780p level at which its stood in early April before a warning of a slow-down in sales . |
| 4 | The other part , communication , still has a long way to go . |
| 5 | It is sad that a man with so many good qualities should have led so many down the wrong path , damaging the sport he obviously loves , but I feel that the Charlie Francis story still has a long way to go . |
| 6 | The DTI still has a long way to go before it can seriously contest the Treasury 's hegemony over matters economic . |
| 7 | Kubota has at least half a dozen Alpha chips in the labs , but says it still has a long way to go before there is sufficient software support to bring out the Titan 2.0 . |
| 8 | The IMS 's final comment is important : ‘ If economic revolutions are about wealth creation rather than redistribution , this latest one still has a long way to go ’ ( ‘ Services : the second industrial revolution ? ’ by Amin Rajan , Report by the Institute of Manpower Services Group , Butterworths , reported in the Financial Times , 5 February 1987 ) . |
| 9 | Brothers , sisters , President , we 've still got a long way to go . |
| 10 | However , we 've still got a long way to go on working together with the health service ’ . |
| 11 | I do n't know , there 's still got a long way to go though |
| 12 | I know that some British civil servants are making considerable efforts to improve erm in these terms but erm I think we 've still got a long way to go in appreciating the importance of at least being able to understand somebody else 's language , erm even if you ca n't always erm communicate in it as well as you can in your own . |
| 13 | She still had a long way to go and championship victories in Stuttgart , Rome , Seoul and Split followed , plus city marathons in Rotterdam , Chicago , Boston , Osaka and then London last year . |
| 14 | True , she probably still had a long way to go . |
| 15 | The University of Utah team made it clear that they still had a long way to go and would like another year to eighteen months to continue their research before announcing it . |
| 16 | In 1926 , on any economic criterion , they still had a long way to go , when , pacified by the placebos of the previous year , they claimed a moral victory , and vanished into the archives of oblivion . |
| 17 | From their point of view they still had a long way to go in rescuing their past . |
| 18 | Without this slow agricultural revolution , which still had a long way to go in many European countries in 1880 , food production would not have been able to keep up with population growth . |
| 19 | The mounted soldier still had a long way to go and his influence was very considerable in the whole period covered by this book . |
| 20 | Travellers today said the Charter was a step forward , but BR still had a long way to go . |
| 21 | Sadly one has to conclude , if the illustrations of lessons reported in the published text are anything to go by ( and one can hardly conceive that the team held back good lessons ) then we still have a long way to go before we can claim with confidence that drama on the curriculum guarantees good education . |
| 22 | A spokesman from Body Positive , a support group for people with the virus justified the campaign : ‘ We still have a long way to go because the general public is still very ignorant and there 's a lot of misinformation around . ’ |
| 23 | Continued help in learning Spanish — I can now communicate , but still have a long way to go in fully understanding what people are saying to me |
| 24 | Clearly we still have a long way to go to understand just how InsP 3 acts to open individual channels . |
| 25 | A closer look at the supposed benefits of object-oriented technology reveals that we still have a long way to go to realise them fully . |
| 26 | They saw the boom falling , but still have a long way to go to fill the hole that the decline of the mainframe is about to open up . |
| 27 | Others , focusing on issues such as the inequality in the wages paid to men and women or the violence that women receive at men 's hands , argue that women still have a long way to go before they are fully liberated . |
| 28 | I believe delegation and empowerment is starting to show improvements but we still have a long way to go . |
| 29 | Others still have a long way to go and a lot to learn about their disabilities . |
| 30 | Richard Spindler and Julia Verity know they still have a long way to go . |