Example sentences of "which [verb] a long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Hard graft , mind , but at least they 're decent to you , aye , and fair too which goes a long way . ’ |
| 2 | One study which goes a long way towards identifying dimensions of the culture of the shop floor , and the political relatedness of workers to their enterprise has been completed by Paul E. Willis . |
| 3 | Patronage was necessary , because it was expected that the member of parliament should be able to obtain it , a fact which goes a long way towards explaining the close links between so many Scots members of parliament and administration . |
| 4 | The Law Society have now introduced the Client Care Scheme , which goes a long way to bonding this relationship at the outset . |
| 5 | Any investigation which covers a long span of time is bound to encounter certain special problems . |
| 6 | In this second talk I want to mention a view which has a long history in the Church , far longer than my previous subject . |
| 7 | The concept of social disorganization , for example , which has a long history in sociology , assumes its contrast to be with a ‘ community ’ , a harmoniously well-organized and integrated society . |
| 8 | Thirty-seven per cent of the national dairy herd is of the Swedish Friesian ( SLB ) , which has a long history in the country . |
| 9 | Songqiao ( 1988 ) describes that of the Hexi corridor which is situated between the Mongolian and Tibetan plateaux and which has a long history of cultivation based on irrigation . |
| 10 | Objectivity is itself an ideal which has a long history of identification with the masculine . |
| 11 | This was known as the ‘ butty system ’ , which has a long history in the area ( Griffin , 1977 , p. 26 ) . |
| 12 | That city , which has a long history of communal grief in the memories of Irish immigrants and desperate experiences of unemployment , knew , intuitively , how to behave . |
| 13 | To illustrate , let us consider the case of a word overlapping with two other candidates , the first of which has a long definition and the second has a short definition . |
| 14 | A short continuous crisis , the origins and consequences of which cover a long period , seems to be the double requirement of tragedy and its double relationship to time . |
| 15 | It was less the fear of hell ( which seemed a long time away ) than the fear of being a non-person which prompted me to ask my parents if I could be baptised . |
| 16 | All the machinery was powered by a gas engine which drove a long shaft near the ceiling that in turn , by means of belts to fast and loose pulleys , provided the motive power for the various equipment . |
| 17 | There seems to be a memory for elaborate patterns and sequences which takes a long time to develop . |
| 18 | So you could just all out in rhyming prose which takes a long time . |
| 19 | In middle age he has experienced a breakdown , an identity crisis , which followed a long illness and an operation . |
| 20 | Pro Arte brushes have lovely points which last a long time . |
| 21 | Sage , rosemary and lavender need no visual description , though it is not always realized that sage has spikes of vividly blue-mauve flowers which last a long time and are highly magnetic to bees . |
| 22 | It was a fall down the cellar steps of one of these houses which started a long history of back trouble . |
| 23 | The paternoster I use is the genuine article , which entails a long bomb length and a short hook length . |
| 24 | An attempt to establish a ‘ liberal communist ’ regime under Imre Nagy which appeared likely to take Hungary out of the Warsaw Treaty Organisation was brutally crushed by Soviet tanks in October 1956 , and a new leadership under János Kádár was installed which took a long time to establish any measure of domestic support . |
| 25 | Which took a long time to recover from . |
| 26 | At last there was room for a central bureau of information , which went a long way to reducing the confusion caused by overlapping responsibilities . |
| 27 | For it was he who arranged the finance which went a long way towards putting the station on the air . |
| 28 | Also on Oct. 17 the Supreme Soviet passed a decree which went a long way towards meeting other student demands , and secured an end to the protests . |
| 29 | The reader should be aware , however , that recent years have seen the enactment of a number of important statutory forms of liability in particular areas of exceptional risk which go a long way towards avoiding the likelihood of protracted litigation inherent in the ill-defined nature of the rules of strict liability at common law . |
| 30 | The regulations , which go a long way towards updating the older health and safety laws , cover a wide range of basic health , safety and welfare issues . |