Example sentences of "would [verb] [art] long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | A large microcomputer system with an extensive range of hardware devices and large block of extra machine-code routines is very flexible and powerful , and would go a long way to meeting the requirements of the program designer , but in realistic terms such a system would be too expensive for most schools at present . |
| 32 | Quite clearly , a small percentage reduction in wastage would go a long way to easing the manpower problems . |
| 33 | If it were made good , it would go a long way towards providing a justification for denying English the place in our educational system which we demand for it . |
| 34 | A little espionage would go a long way — that sort of thing . |
| 35 | If you could try to look as if you 're being guarded , it would go a long way . |
| 36 | As my right hon. Friend the shadow Home Secretary emphasised , a Freedom of Information Act which we would introduce would go a long way to improving all our freedoms . |
| 37 | An extended speed limit would go a long way towards making this road safer for all users and would be relatively inexpensive . |
| 38 | and we , we would ask of that , but the next point and erm , is this my Lord erm at the moment erm the negotiations are erm proceeding in relation to the house , about which we have heard evidence , er , we could not properly buy it until it had been investigated by the court of protection and there was approval of that , and er it will be necessary for er consideration to be given as to how it should be purchased , in practical terms , firstly your Lordship has erm awarded a figure of seventy one thousand pounds , then there is the eighty thousand pounds on the existing house which takes one up to a hundred and fifty or thereabouts , and one sees that the special damages and interest thereon comes to something over fifty two thousand pounds to which these er parents will be entitled in the normal way , and if they were to apply , they might do and apply , that would go a long way to purchasing it and the court of protection , if it approved that might take the view that it would be fair to take something out of the notional aspect of damages for loss of earnings , because after all the plaintiff would have spent his earnings for housing and so on in the future , that , that is the sort of problems that now have to be tackled er what , what we would respect and suggest is er simply that there is liberty to apply erm . |
| 39 | So if we could use , insist on issuing licences , that would go a long way to sorting some of these of these problems out . |
| 40 | But size is n't everything and a quality performance from Henry Cecil 's colt — or any other runner — would go a long way towards salvaging the historic event 's ailing reputation . |
| 41 | ‘ This hostel would go a long way towards that . |
| 42 | Under Swiss law she would get a long prison sentence . |
| 43 | Thus , where the tenant had been innocently misled into believing that he would obtain a long term , and had invested heavily in the property next door , whereas the landlord in fact had plans for immediate redevelopment , the Court of Appeal upheld an order for a break-clause exercisable after the first three years of the term ( Amika Motors Ltd v Colebrook Holdings Ltd ( 1981 ) 259 EG 243 ) . |
| 44 | The truth is , if we were looking for people to blame for the fact that the once-great club are now Division Three favourites , referee Brian Coddington would come a long way down the list . |
| 45 | A complication was that it had to be reduced in a complicated , controlled manner or the electricity grid throughout Ulster would be burned out and would require a long time to replace after the strike would be over . |