Example sentences of "[det] [verb] [art] long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this way , the learner will gain confidence , and this goes a long way to promoting safe practice if at a later time adequate guidance and support are lacking . |
| 2 | This goes a long way towards explaining the awkwardness felt by the foreign learner in conversation an awkwardness which does not seem wholly attributable to faulty or slow processing of grammar and vocabulary . |
| 3 | There is a problem with pollution with visual intrusion and noise intrusion which needs to be solved and this goes a long way towards solving it . |
| 4 | This involved a long hike over Esk Hause to Gable , and to avoid the intense mid-day heat we agreed to leave the valley at dawn . |
| 5 | This began a long association between the royal family and Wilson , who undertook several commissions . |
| 6 | This takes a long time and is reflected in the price of the product . |
| 7 | Hyperactive children may ‘ grow out of it ’ in time , but this takes a long time and their behaviour tends to get worse before it gets better . |
| 8 | In order to gain reasonable competence by the simple approach , the robot has to record more than 1000 entries in the set R. This takes a long time . |
| 9 | But this takes a long time and a lot of convincing . |
| 10 | This seems a long time . |
| 11 | I thought does n't this take a long time just for a little tiny bit ? |
| 12 | Delegates could contribute valuable insight and comment based on their own experiences and expertise , and this went a long way towards creating LASMO 's HSE blueprint for 1993 and beyond . |
| 13 | This ended a long history of credit controls in Britain since the war . |
| 14 | Marianne Farningham , religious journalist , learnt her faith from a papermaker Baptist grandfather , ‘ a preacher of great force ’ , who would sit ‘ in our kitchen , talking with some friend , each smoking a long clay pipe , and with a glass of home-brewed beer on the table ’ , debating ‘ on high themes , of Calvinistic doctrine and the heresies of Arminianism . ’ |
| 15 | It 's something you use to get you from A to B , I guess , and right now that seemed a long way to me . |
| 16 | These enclosed a long yard , at the end of which was Sainsbury 's Warehouse . |
| 17 | Proposals such as these went a long way to alleviate Chinese concerns and brought closer the possibility of a summit meeting between the two leaderships for which Soviet spokesmen had for some time been calling . |
| 18 | These have a long shelf life and can be served hot or cold , making them a very good standby to have in the cupboard . |
| 19 | No but that takes a long while to get round . |
| 20 | But then to do it well , so that it all sounds extremely natural — so that it flows and sounds effortless — that requires a long preparation , which everyone at La Scala was happy to give it . |
| 21 | But this preoccupation can do little to illuminate the long period of non-divorce and tends in the end to convey a linear development , implied also by the title of the book , notwithstanding Stone 's concern to stress the variability in the meanings of divorce , marriage , and morality . |
| 22 | It all seemed a long way from his flat in Whalley Range . |
| 23 | It all seems a long time ago . |
| 24 | Quite often ( but not always ) such cases are called in by the Secretary of State even where the planning authority is minded to grant consent , in order to allow interested groups a chance to air their views ; so it can all take a long time . |
| 25 | It all went a long way towards explaining why umpires the world over have been reluctant for so many years to restrain cricket 's bouncer-happy fast bowlers . |
| 26 | They all had a long tradition of agrarian troubles , and all suffered from overpopulation and land scarcity . |
| 27 | ‘ We 've all come a long way , Carrie , and we 're going to go a lot farther … but come inside , I think Christian 's found that bottle of brandy that I 've been hoping he 'd forgotten . ’ |
| 28 | The marjorams all have a long history of use since classical times , and were more popular in the Middle Ages in Britain than thyme . |
| 29 | And does that take a long time ? |
| 30 | ‘ And that seems a long way away . |