Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] a long way " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such recognition could help temper the arrogance of some Western thinkers — an arrogance that goes a long way to explain why some have found relativism so attractive . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | But the headlining act — a quartet splicing the former Miles Davis guitarist John Scofield with the British saxophonist Andy Sheppard — struck fireworks that went a long way towards helping the audience breathe out after some dodgy moments during the presentations . |
| 4 | Troy did , however , use one phrase that went a long way to describe the film 's great success , for he spoke of how it illustrated that ‘ an honest documentation of familiar American actualities becomes in a Hollywood film more absorbing than intrigue in Monte Carlo or pig-sticking in Bengal ’ . |
| 5 | But they sweetened their reign of fear with occasional favours and a glaze of authority that went a long way in communities accustomed to neither . |
| 6 | Reluctant as he was to part with evidence that went a long way to exonerating Colin , he knew surrendering it voluntarily was vastly preferable to having it seized . |
| 7 | Those who question Taylor 's future were left to swallow a performance that went a long way to answering the questions against the England manager . |
| 8 | Mr. John Jeffery , the auctioneer , looked himself every inch a farmer and had a wonderfully fruity voice that carried a long way . |
| 9 | Shearer has not proved himself yet and has a long way to go . ’ |
| 10 | The problem is that you are dealing with foreigners who insist on having different money , customs , languages , politics , legislation and living a long way away . |
| 11 | A mother with three young children , with no car and living a long way from a general practitioner 's surgery is almost certain not to consult the doctor as often as she should . |
| 12 | Indeed , I 'd probably sympathise and go a long way towards agreeing with those propositions if they were put to me . |
| 13 | Now , diver deployment systems are accepted as normal offshore practise , and go a long way to making commercial diving safer . |
| 14 | The woman was in black stilettoes , walking slowly and evidently in pain — as if she had walked into the country in inappropriate shoes and was blistered and had a long way to go , as if this hot summer wind from the chalk hills was almost too much for her . |
| 15 | At the top of the fountain , the spray breaks up into individual droplets which get carried by the wind and fall a long way from the vent , so that downwind of the fountain there is a shifting curtain of glowing droplets showering down . |
| 16 | I 'm fifty and have a long way to go . |
| 17 | Far from being able to produce enough plutonium to make atomic weapons , however , IAEA experts agreed that the plant was " extremely primitive " and remained a long way from completion . |
| 18 | Education is seen to include some of this , but goes a long way beyond competence in application . |
| 19 | NORWICH moved to within a point of the top of the table in a scrappy match against relegation-haunted Oldham — but looked a long way short of genuine championship class . |
| 20 | Environmentalists hailed the decision as going a long way towards meeting the demands of campaigns in favour of preserving Antarctica . |