Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] [vb base] a long way " in BNC.
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| 1 | I know that we 've a long way today er to go today but would you just bear that in mind colleagues . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | For instance , if you 've a long way to go , it 's better to get there slowly than not at all . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Perhaps we are just beginning to see how the brain works , but we have a long way to go . |
| 10 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | But they have a long way to recover . |
| 14 | 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 . |