Example sentences of "[vb -s] [verb] a long [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The investment represents a personal victory for the city 's Principal Arts Officer , Elizabeth Goodall , who has led a long campaign to educate local politicians of the cultural and economic rewards to be reaped from properly investing in the visual arts infrastructure . |
| 2 | This minor impediment for the flanker is just sufficient to allow a fraction more time and space for the half-back to get things moving and has gone a long way to assist in opening the game up . |
| 3 | I think the Home Secretary has gone a long way to meet many anxieties which were expressed |
| 4 | The pyramid has taken a long time to crumble . |
| 5 | Surprisingly , it has taken a long time to arrange something that most would have considered to be basic . |
| 6 | It has taken a long time to get justice but the compensation will give financial security to my family and give us sufficient breathing space to try and rebuild our lives . |
| 7 | It has taken a long time to get justice but the compensation will give financial security to my family and give us sufficient breathing space to try and rebuild our lives . |
| 8 | Such a measure has taken a long time to appear . |
| 9 | It has taken a long time to reduce the effects of that defect but it is now under control . |
| 10 | Nobody wants to lose and if nobody wants to lose it means it gets fiercer and it goes on for longer and it does takes a long time to resolve , if it ever is and often to the detriment of one person to the success of another . |
| 11 | The way in which forests are disappearing , land is becoming desert , erm food is not being grown in areas where it used to be grown , those are disasters , but what we 're talking about is the , the rather more sudden event which , which you know reaches a crescendo , even if it does take a long time to develop , like a famine , nevertheless the disaster is considered to be that point when perhaps thousands of people are in very desperate need of food . |
| 12 | He 's got a long way to go home , ’ said Ray Shepherd quietly . |
| 13 | The birth was on July 1st and at 7 lb 7 oz he 's got a long way to go to catch up to dad . |
| 14 | Gemma 's got a long way to go before she gets to eighty |
| 15 | Phil 's got a long way to go actually |
| 16 | He 's got a long way to go to find it . |
| 17 | This is a bit odd cos Banbury 's got a long way to travel |
| 18 | And she 's got a long time to use this money , and okay this might be sufficient now , but will it be when she 's seventy , seventy five , so we 've got to make that money work so |
| 19 | Some of you er you know it 's taken a long time to get this message over . |