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 convent has a long tradition of illustrating cards and books with delicate hand-crafted watercolours and inscriptions . |
| 10 | The approach of classroom testing against the hearing norms has a long tradition among educators and researchers . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Literature has a long history of feminist interest , but film and media studies are certainly as central to feminist cultural debates . |
| 13 | Romania has a long way to go before it can even begin to climb out of its paralysis . |
| 14 | Such difficult transition demands time and balance and Romania has a long way to go before it is comfortable with its new identity . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Talk of a realignment on the centre-left of the spectrum has a long history . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | There seems to be a lot of blood , but , you know , a little blood goes a long way . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | ‘ The horse has a long neck , and that helped me get back in the saddle , ’ he added . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The Social Work Department has a long tradition of working in collaboration with other service providers . |
| 27 | The technique of biomass gasification by partial combustion has a long history . |
| 28 | Mexico has a long culinary history and is therefore a must for any travelling cook . |
| 29 | Fraserburgh has a long and distinguished lifeboat history , but the town has paid the price with the loss of no less than 13 lifeboatmen 's lives in the course of several disasters . |
| 30 | Established in 1912 , Olympus has a long tradition of good design , using the finest materials and quality craftsmanship . |