Example sentences of "[noun] [vb -s] a long " in BNC.

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1 The recently published book Collecting Lustreware goes a long way to correct such assumptions , for it gives a comprehensive account of all British pottery and porcelain manufacturers who are known to have made and/or decorated lustreware — and there was no shortage of them .
2 Little was known about the products of many of these areas , and much research still needs to be done but Collecting Lustreware goes a long way to redressing the balance .
3 This decision goes a long way towards demonstrating the untenability of the marital-rape exemption in modern times .
4 WHATEVER YOU 'RE PLANNING TO BUY YOUR MONEY GOES A LONG WAY WITH ABBEY NATIONAL
5 Bourdieu goes a long way to remedying this defect in his treatment of actual practices in his structure ( fields ) .
6 Although this technique has a long ancestry in the Old World it was unknown in the Americas until the Spanish conquest in the sixteenth century .
7 The basic rule is that if the second syllable of the verb contains a long vowel or diphthong , or if it ends with more than one consonant , that second syllable is stressed .
8 Alba Adriatica has a long beach of fine , golden sand where holiday life is taken at a relaxed unhurried pace .
9 The dose equivalence over 24 hours is more difficult to estimate but since salmeterol has a longer duration of action salmeterol 50 µg twice daily may be equivalent to salbutamol 500 µg four to six hourly .
10 The convent has a long tradition of illustrating cards and books with delicate hand-crafted watercolours and inscriptions .
11 The approach of classroom testing against the hearing norms has a long tradition among educators and researchers .
12 If the final syllable of the stem contains a long vowel or diphthong , or if it ends with more than one consonant , that syllable receives the stress .
13 Literature has a long history of feminist interest , but film and media studies are certainly as central to feminist cultural debates .
14 Romania has a long way to go before it can even begin to climb out of its paralysis .
15 Such difficult transition demands time and balance and Romania has a long way to go before it is comfortable with its new identity .
16 IAN LUCAS has a longer booklet on Apple Snails available at £3 including p&p
17 It is possibly true of ‘ Bonn ’ : Germany has a long tradition of unease about England which has been kept alive.and well in influential papers such as Die Zeit and elsewhere .
18 Talk of a realignment on the centre-left of the spectrum has a long history .
19 No Hiding Place Sitting containers on pallets or bricks goes a long way toward preventing them from harbouring all kinds of pests under their bottoms .
20 A little amiability goes a long way , it would seem , and many of those present felt that Reebok was the unluckiest loser of the night in this category .
21 They 're added to marzipan to improve its flavour and keeping qualities , and a little oil of bitter almonds goes a long way in much confectionery .
22 The interpretation of ‘ mind ’ as information processing with a self-monitoring facility called consciousness goes a long way towards resolving the problem of body — mind interaction which Popper and Eccles ( 1978 ) have recently revived .
23 There seems to be a lot of blood , but , you know , a little blood goes a long way .
24 The Association has a long history ( dating back to the end of the last century ) , and the ESRC funded project will complement existing work on the period before 1946 .
25 ‘ The horse has a long neck , and that helped me get back in the saddle , ’ he added .
26 Labour has a long list of priorities : a £3 billion pledge on pensions — presumably health comes after that ; health presumably comes after Labour 's £1 billion recovery programme and it presumably comes after Labour 's £8 billion housing pledge .
27 There is a clear value in reducing the amount of chemical waste which has to be got rid of — and that thinking has a long way to go .
28 The Social Work Department has a long tradition of working in collaboration with other service providers .
29 The technique of biomass gasification by partial combustion has a long history .
30 Mexico has a long culinary history and is therefore a must for any travelling cook .
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