Example sentences of "[noun sg] go a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This decision goes a long way towards demonstrating the untenability of the marital-rape exemption in modern times . |
| 2 | WHATEVER YOU 'RE PLANNING TO BUY YOUR MONEY GOES A LONG WAY WITH ABBEY NATIONAL |
| 3 | ‘ He 's not the first striker to go a few games without scoring , ’ Alex Smith , the Aberdeen manager , said . |
| 4 | Bourdieu goes a long way to remedying this defect in his treatment of actual practices in his structure ( fields ) . |
| 5 | A little amiability goes a long way , it would seem , and many of those present felt that Reebok was the unluckiest loser of the night in this category . |
| 6 | The interpretation of ‘ mind ’ as information processing with a self-monitoring facility called consciousness goes a long way towards resolving the problem of body — mind interaction which Popper and Eccles ( 1978 ) have recently revived . |
| 7 | There seems to be a lot of blood , but , you know , a little blood goes a long way . |
| 8 | It is hoped that the following study goes a small way towards describing their experiences and situation , as well as highlighting what the inclusion of disabled professionals reveals about the orthodox professional/client relationship . |
| 9 | I was doing quite well in the quiz up to that point , but my mind went a total blank on that one . |
| 10 | With this sense of a specialized alternative went a certain set of alternative moral and social attitudes , much more open and relaxed ( ‘ bohemian ’ ) than the norms of their class . |
| 11 | Thus the Act goes a long way in smoothing the path of the prosecutor . |
| 12 | As the hon. Gentleman knows , the Bill in question goes a good deal wider than just the matters that he has been addressing . |
| 13 | Along with this rapprochement went a corresponding attack on the fundamentalist tenets of nonconformist morality . |
| 14 | His text explains : ’ ‘ And with this funeral goes a rented coffin — it saves you buying one . ’ |
| 15 | It might be a bottle of wine , but a bottle of wine goes a long way , and everybody , you stand up and you get your bottle of wine , and everybody goes , yes , feel good . |
| 16 | ‘ Fragrant Frames ’ now means those obvious-looking room fresheners and sprays can be dispensed with and in their place goes an elegant addition to any wall . |
| 17 | Whether it 's a long-term or short-term problem you will find gentle exercise and relaxation through yoga will be beneficial to you mentally and physically , and we always find that a good massage goes a long way to easing tension and making you feel better . |
| 18 | The perpetuation of the old sources of strife goes a long way towards explaining why party conflict continued after the Glorious Revolution , which will be the theme of the following chapter . |
| 19 | It was clear that the true purpose of this meeting went a great deal deeper than mere small chat . |
| 20 | He called in his full executive to meet us and I 'm sure at the end of the day that this meeting went a long way to the tour going ahead instead of being cancelled ’ . |
| 21 | follow the pattern , but there again this stuff goes a long way |
| 22 | The concessions Edward made on matters such as purveyance and unparliamentary taxation went a long way towards meeting the grievances of the commons , and the king was able to mobilize the resources he required for war . |
| 23 | THE head went a long time ago , then it was the legs — but on Thursday night it was Martina Navratilova 's heart that had gone from her game . |
| 24 | Right it is a hundred miles from King 's Lynn to London , the train takes two hours to do the journey the train does not go at a constant speed , it speeds up sometimes and slows down at other times it also stops at stations on the way and on once of course as it , as it 's stopping it 's going more and more slowly and as it 's er moving off again it starts slowly and starts to go quickly but because it takes two hours in all the train goes a hundred miles in two hours we say its average speed for the journey is fifty miles per hour . |
| 25 | A little careful planning goes a long way . |
| 26 | Huntington 's argument goes a long way to making clear the disappointment a reader experiences if he approaches the Wellsian SF novels in chronological order . |
| 27 | The political and economic origins of this approach to soil conservation go a long way to explaining it . |
| 28 | Their staff were generally willing to ‘ have a go ’ , and with some information and support went a long way in challenging their own attitudes and those of other children and parents . |
| 29 | Friedman 's statement of the natural rate hypothesis went a long way towards reconciling such evidence with basic classical theory . |
| 30 | The incident goes a long way to explaining Chapman 's later enthusiasm for floodlit football . |