Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] [verb] [art] long way " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although she lived a long way from the town , she seldom missed Brownie Pack Meeting . |
| 2 | Being a mere apprentice was boring and carried no cachet , and Lydia was dauntedly aware that she had a long way to go before she achieved the skills and ease of perfection . |
| 3 | I know that we 've a long way today er to go today but would you just bear that in mind colleagues . |
| 4 | We know from our informal discussions with politicians of all shades of opinion that we have a long way to go , but many have been sympathetic to our aims . |
| 5 | A Union of Democratic Forces spokesman , Mr Georgi Spassov , said : ‘ This demonstrates that we have a long way to go before we have true democracy in Bulgaria . ’ |
| 6 | The revolution that resulted in molecular biology enabled us to begin to understand many of the processes in the cell at the molecular level , although it must be stressed that we have a long way to go . |
| 7 | He hated the vulgarity of showing off the delegates as though they were exhibits , and the insincerity of pretending that platitudes were pronouncements of world-shaking import , and the feeling that he came a long way to greet fellow-Christians and found himself turned into a ham-actor on a second-rate stage . |
| 8 | Silver and I followed a long way behind the rest , and I had to help him . |
| 9 | For instance , if you 've a long way to go , it 's better to get there slowly than not at all . ’ |
| 10 | This leads me to believe that the questions surrounding male/female relationships are not simple , and we have a long way to go before we can simply pursue the ‘ if only men would ’ formula . |
| 11 | In an ideal world we would be recycling and re-using everything , but this is n't possible and we have a long way to go before we can turn all our waste into a resource . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Her nephew , Tim , was Miss Miggs 's only relative , and he lived a long way away up in the North . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Thankfully , ‘ Dirty ’ , the Sonics ' recent Geffen album , entered the UK Top Ten during the first week of release and , even if it has a long way to go to equal the sales of ‘ Nevermind ’ , things could be taking a turn for the better . |
| 16 | The majority of people were sympathetic , but we had a long way to go before people would be shouting ‘ Honte à la reine Britannique ’ in the streets . |
| 17 | Perhaps we are just beginning to see how the brain works , but we have a long way to go . |
| 18 | ‘ We have somewhere between £22,000 and £23,000 in the bank and there is cash still to come in , but we have a long way to go . ’ |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Unfortunately , as this book points out , some of the alternatives may look good on paper but they have a long way to go before they can match the tokamak . |
| 21 | But they have a long way to recover . |
| 22 | But he came a long way round from a long way back , and O'Brien , by no means a habitual blamer of jockeys , is still convinced they should have won . |
| 23 | But he has a long way to go to close down Sir Teddy 's 15,000 majority . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Did you say these used to rub your toes when you went a long way in them ? |