Example sentences of "[noun] [vb base] a [adj] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | Good selection procedures and thorough briefing sessions go a long way towards making an overseas assignment a success . |
| 2 | The Welsh lads have a long way to go before they match that sort of consistency , but it only needs one to become a permanent fixture for everything to change . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Paramo 's Nevada jacket and Prima trousers provide a good way of beating the rain . |
| 5 | Because I 'm because John Gummer 's responsibilities extend a long way into things like housing and stuff as well do n't they ? |
| 6 | Notions of similarity and the recognition of rhymes and rhythms present a possible way in which such orderings might be achieved . |
| 7 | ‘ Your own stories go a long way towards doing that . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | For example , Chinese families have a different way of disciplining their children . |
| 10 | ‘ Dreams have a funny way of turning sour . ’ |
| 11 | Perhaps so , but it seems to me that , if the experience curve is understood as reflecting the continued , planned desire for cost leadership as more is produced , the expression of the curve and the learning rate provide a useful way of monitoring cost-reduction possibilities and helping to formulate strategy . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Sadly , we agreed , such prospects lie a long way off . |
| 14 | The political and economic origins of this approach to soil conservation go a long way to explaining it . |
| 15 | It is in fact the commercially provided infrastructure that is most lacking , and many people live a long way from a shop , although this is to some extent made up for by mobile shops . |
| 16 | Fortunately , his colleagues are n't so averse to a spot of enunciation : if Verve have got a nerve and Adorable have the babble than Suede have a warming way with words that 's more matter-of-fact than mad as a hatter . |
| 17 | The Tyneside star , who has recovered from a groin injury , admitted afterwards : ‘ The Olympic Games seem a long way away . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Its arbitration procedures offer a simple way of sorting out disputes using written statements , and avoiding the need to make a personal appearance . |
| 20 | I think , I think , that I think that the children and the pensioners and the sick people of Britain come a long way before income tax cuts next year , or for many years to come . |
| 21 | At present , we are the only party prepared to grasp the nettle and to recognise that consumers ' interests require both effective competition in the marketplace — the Government have a long way to go before they create that — and effective regulation where the market can not produce a solution . |
| 22 | Floating aquatics have a different way of life to anything the gardener commonly encounters . |
| 23 | Many couples find a good way to avoid impulsive spending is to agree on a limit of , say £5 or £10 as all that can be spent without consulting the other partner . |
| 24 | Many children live a long way from their grandparents , so relationships with non-related older people need to be encouraged . |
| 25 | Today 's graduates have a long way to go to match the service of the RAF 's longest serving ex-apprentice . |
| 26 | Such fads have a nasty way of evaporating . |
| 27 | However , these claims suggest a third way in which policing in Easton is ordinary . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | The research findings indicate that many authorities have a long way to go before their procedures come close to what one might reasonably describe as a partnership with parents . |
| 30 | It is high time to abandon that caricature , too long perpetuated by dictionary definitions such as the one you quote from Chambers , both for the sake of historical justice and because , in the present as in the past , anti-Pharisaism and anti-Judaism have a nasty way of feeding on each other . |