Example sentences of "[vb base] a long way " in BNC.
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| 1 | You walk a long way when you go to , across Crackside . |
| 2 | Sadly , we agreed , such prospects lie a long way off . |
| 3 | We ride a long way and in late afternoon ( sun time rather than clock time , which has long ceased to be important to us ) we stop for coffee so that Odd-Knut can work out a route . |
| 4 | At the other end of the size scale , Fiat Geotech 's takeover of Ford New Holland has now been signed , though changes to the two product lines still seem a long way off . |
| 5 | But Llewellyn 's retainers with Twiston-Davies and Tim Forster , plus attractive rides for David Nicholson and Nick Gaselee , make those dark days when the phone never rang seem a long way off . |
| 6 | The Tyneside star , who has recovered from a groin injury , admitted afterwards : ‘ The Olympic Games seem a long way away . |
| 7 | Because I 'm because John Gummer 's responsibilities extend a long way into things like housing and stuff as well do n't they ? |
| 8 | A number of higher clergy in Ulster and many of its lay intellectuals stand a long way off from protestant — loyalist politics and are in fact politically dissociated from them . |
| 9 | Because she had been reluctant to meet up with Celeste again , she had sat in a public stand a long way away from the private seating , the grid , the pits , but now she raced back towards them . |
| 10 | I think it was Old Harlow or Hoddesdon somewhere I used to go , I know a long way off we had to go because there was n't anything round here was there ? |
| 11 | Florida will suffer because it is a centre of the fertiliser industry ; Pennsylvania , because it has a concentration of steel and cement works ; Kansas , because farmers use a lot of fuel ; California , because its residents habitually drive a long way to work . |
| 12 | The political and economic origins of this approach to soil conservation go a long way to explaining it . |
| 13 | Now , diver deployment systems are accepted as normal offshore practise , and go a long way to making commercial diving safer . |
| 14 | These facts go a long way towards explaining why the bream is not generally recognised as a hard-fighting fish . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Three books on Clive Sinclair 's £125 colour computer , the ZX Spectrum , go a long way to dispelling both impressions . |
| 17 | THE picture above shows the ideal set-up for the modern work station , and the new EC regulations go a long way to achieving this . |
| 18 | To meet the needs of piston-engine operators worldwide , a small number of specialist concerns thrive looking after the precious radial engine that go a long way towards making the DC-3 and DC-6 such economic miracle workers . |
| 19 | Good selection procedures and thorough briefing sessions go a long way towards making an overseas assignment a success . |
| 20 | Many folks go a long way up the Bulger to fix a high runner and top-rope the move , but this is a bit naughty , and it wo n't help you on the upper slab . |
| 21 | Those local authorities that are investing in the necessary shredders and mechanical mixers are finding that the savings of landfill charges go a long way towards paying for the environmental gain . |
| 22 | ( A political party finds a surplus as large as this very gratifying , because the votes made available for transfer will , if voters are loyal , go a long way to ensuring the election of one or even two of its less popular candidates . ) |
| 23 | The reader should be aware , however , that recent years have seen the enactment of a number of important statutory forms of liability in particular areas of exceptional risk which go a long way towards avoiding the likelihood of protracted litigation inherent in the ill-defined nature of the rules of strict liability at common law . |
| 24 | Taken together they go a long way in explaining the birth and persistence of aesthetic modernism . |
| 25 | ‘ Your own stories go a long way towards doing that . ’ |
| 26 | The regulations , which go a long way towards updating the older health and safety laws , cover a wide range of basic health , safety and welfare issues . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | The problems faced by princes go a long way to explaining their activities during the lifetimes of their fathers , especially their hostility to their stepmothers . |
| 29 | These religious tensions go a long way towards explaining why the party divide cut so deep into society : political strife during the first age of party did not just affect the political elite at the centre and a minority of the more affluent and better-educated classes in the localities , but all sorts of people , including those of fairly humble backgrounds , women as well as men , were caught up in the party divide . |
| 30 | What it does is it means that there is a proper look each year at the finances of each individual firm er and er if there are things which are wrong , they are reported straight away and that really I think is the lesser of all of this with B C C I , er that er where things are not all they should be that they are dealt with and they are reported quickly and these orders , Madam Deputy Speaker , go a long way to helping to ensure that and for that reason I believe the house should warmly welcome them . |