Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] a long way " in BNC.
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| 31 | The majority of people were sympathetic , but we had a long way to go before people would be shouting ‘ Honte à la reine Britannique ’ in the streets . |
| 32 | ‘ Have n't we come a long way ? ’ he said , and collapsed . |
| 33 | ‘ We are going to develop inducements and encouragements for a major expansion of research and development , because if we are going to rival our major competitors we have a long way to go in catching up with them . |
| 34 | We know from our informal discussions with politicians of all shades of opinion that we have a long way to go , but many have been sympathetic to our aims . |
| 35 | A Union of Democratic Forces spokesman , Mr Georgi Spassov , said : ‘ This demonstrates that we have a long way to go before we have true democracy in Bulgaria . ’ |
| 36 | The revolution that resulted in molecular biology enabled us to begin to understand many of the processes in the cell at the molecular level , although it must be stressed that we have a long way to go . |
| 37 | So it is clear we have a long way to go before we can store up all the experiences of humankind . |
| 38 | We have a long way to go before society really shifts in attitude , and both men and women assume that caring is not only a woman 's job . |
| 39 | ‘ We have a long way to go before we are able to record and translate accurately such imprints of ourselves left behind in the void of time . |
| 40 | The sponsorship money will be used to upgrade facilities at the Stoop Memorial Ground because , according to chairman Roger Looker , ‘ We recognise we have a long way to go towards what we consider to be adequate facilities , particularly if we sustain our growth ’ . |
| 41 | Perhaps we are just beginning to see how the brain works , but we have a long way to go . |
| 42 | This leads me to believe that the questions surrounding male/female relationships are not simple , and we have a long way to go before we can simply pursue the ‘ if only men would ’ formula . |
| 43 | ‘ We have somewhere between £22,000 and £23,000 in the bank and there is cash still to come in , but we have a long way to go . ’ |
| 44 | In an ideal world we would be recycling and re-using everything , but this is n't possible and we have a long way to go before we can turn all our waste into a resource . |
| 45 | They stopped only to pick up Cheryl , who saw them coming a long way off and ran down to the road to meet them . |
| 46 | They lived a long way away , but they decided to take a weeks holiday in Cornwall and decided to see Daryl in the middle of it . |
| 47 | 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 . |
| 48 | Taken together they go a long way in explaining the birth and persistence of aesthetic modernism . |
| 49 | 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 . |
| 50 | Whatever implement it was that hit him went a long way round his skull but did n't penetrate very far , for which he should thank his stars . ’ |
| 51 | The opinion polls showed him lagging a long way behind the front-runners and suggested that he was going to fare very poorly in the New Hampshire contest . |
| 52 | They 've a long way to go if one of these youngsters are to compete at Sydney in the year 2 000 … but already they 've claimed a notable scalp . |
| 53 | They had a long way to go . |
| 54 | They had a long way to go before that could happen . |
| 55 | I could hear him whistling a long way behind . |
| 56 | If uranium prices are going to swing in favour of fast reactors , they have a long way to go . |
| 57 | Unfortunately , as this book points out , some of the alternatives may look good on paper but they have a long way to go before they can match the tokamak . |
| 58 | They have a long way to go . |
| 59 | But they have a long way to recover . |
| 60 | Her nephew , Tim , was Miss Miggs 's only relative , and he lived a long way away up in the North . |