Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb mod] go a " in BNC.

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1 ‘ This afternoon 's coverage should go a long way in helping you set up your own firm , ’ he said , wiping his hands on a serviette .
2 The feminine touch in the car showroom could go a long way towards clinching a deal , the Retail Motor Industry Federation said yesterday .
3 We will have more success at slowing world population growth if we see it as problem of enabling women in poor countries to have control over their own reproduction , which some carefully targeted development aid could go a long way towards achieving .
4 I just hope BR in future will go a little bit further down the consumer road . ’
5 The price cut will go a little way to alleviating the burden of VAT on bills , due to be introduced next April , a move described by Manweb chairman Bryan Weston as disappointing .
6 In addition to the occasional attendance at rehearsals by the incumbent , positive words of appreciation can go a long way in making the musician feel that the job is worthwhile .
7 Our exclusive interview with Steffi elsewhere in this issue should go a long way to satisfying the demands of her fans , many of whom continue to demand more and more information about their favourite player .
8 Captain George Sutherland , director of marine operations for Shetland Island Council , said : ‘ The proposals for traffic separation should go a long way to providing protection for the adjacent coastline and we are content with the measures . ’
9 ‘ That girl will go a long way — ’
10 The head of the Exchange 's advertising department Boris Goldman believes that the opening of the exchange will go a long way to breaking the mafia art market in which Western and Russian intermediaries often knock down prices on Russian works of art .
11 ‘ Broke , and I can see that 2.1 disappearing over the event horizon , but fuck it ; I 've still got my integrity and my Möbius scarf , and a boy can go a long way with those things .
12 Two per cent insanity could go a long , long way .
13 This election could go a long way to sorting that out .
14 Its adoption and implementation throughout the Community will go a long way towards ensuring equal conditions for UK investors exploring opportunities in other Member States .
15 Moreover , your sterling will go a long way — not a small consideration .
16 The strengthening of general or ‘ line ’ management commitment to development may go a large part of the way to overcome local inertia .
17 The government 's measures to secure more planning permissions for housing development will go a long way to remedy the shortage of building land and so remove the occasion for windfall profits based on scarcity values .
18 An extended speed limit would go a long way towards making this road safer for all users and would be relatively inexpensive .
19 And Monday 's game will go a long way towards determining Wright 's future .
20 Little Renaissance furniture survives intact , and the present catalogue will go a long way to furthering its understanding .
21 Schema theory can go a long way towards explaining the sender 's choice and arrangement of information in communication .
22 A good footnote can go a long way .
23 Government policy was aimed at reducing the number of smokers in the country and an advertising ban would go a good way to achieving this , he said .
24 And , ultimately , you 're bound to realise that this amount of money would go a long , long way towards buying your own small PA system — cabs , mixer amp , processor , parametric , vocal mike and all .
25 A little espionage would go a long way — that sort of thing .
26 In the meantime this recording should go a long way to helping his cause .
27 He believed that parliamentary government could go a great way towards securing personal liberty but ‘ neither parliamentary government nor any other form of constitution … will ever of itself remove all or half the sufferings of human beings .
28 We need an improved education system , and the Bill will go a long way to achieving that for the benefit of our children .
29 Organising a fair distribution of tickets by perhaps initially limiting the number allocated to each family or , alternatively , putting on an extra performance will go a long way to solving the problem .
30 While you 're in hospital , a guaranteed additional daily income will go a long way to ensuring that you do n't come out of hospital with financial worries .
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