Example sentences of "go some way [prep] [v-ing] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Willie Carson gets the leg up on Nafuth , who should go some way towards repaying the 500,000 dollars he cost owner Hamdan AlMaktoum by winning the EBF Dunkirk Maiden Stakes ( Division One ) . |
| 2 | Similarly the engineering of plants to produce their own crop-protection chemicals and nutrients , especially nitrogen , could go some way towards offsetting the often detrimental side-effects that artificially produced pesticides and fertilisers can exert on the environment ( sections 6.3 and 6.4 ) . |
| 3 | The pain of childbirth is legendary , but positive thinking and modern methods of pain relief can go some way towards easing the situation |
| 4 | The new student hostel will go some way towards easing the problem , providing an extra two hundred and eighty places . |
| 5 | This may go some way towards explaining the difference of opinion in the various ‘ recommended ’ lists ; it all depends from what point of view ( or various shades thereof ) one is approaching the task , and for whose benefit ? |
| 6 | These opium-induced trances may have produced states of awareness and revelation which explain some of the fantastic imagery of Minoan religious art , and which may even go some way towards explaining the extraordinary architectural achievements of the temple-builders . |
| 7 | However , the prompter investigation of obvious delays in the receipt of current serial parts might go some way towards improving the situation . |
| 8 | In the chapters which follow , I will attempt to offer a more satisfying and , hopefully , iconoclastic alternative ; satisfying because it will place the explanatory emphasis on definite social processes which perpetuate the invidious position of blacks both in and out of sport ; and iconoclastic because it will at least go some way towards smashing the outdated image of the black man as possessing natural physical abilities that are determined , in the last instance , by his race . |
| 9 | Will he go some way towards reviewing the process ? |
| 10 | This was a good rule , and its return — to include the requirement for all firms with more than 20 partners to convert to limited company status — would go some way towards solving the problem of astronomical negligence claims and the consequently soaring costs of professional indemnity insurance . |
| 11 | Such a move would go some way towards solving the looming problems of succession . |
| 12 | This will go some way towards relieving the anxiety of those who felt that the fine and reprimands were far too limp . |
| 13 | Coun Bill Dixon ( Lab ) , chairman of the committee , said he was delighted to be involved in a scheme which will go some way to easing the town 's critical housing shortage . |
| 14 | Does my right hon. Friend envisage the creation of a Territorial Army element in the Household Division , which would go some way to alleviating the greatly increased overstretch that the 40 per cent . |
| 15 | The Boards ' lines of defence against this — replacement costs were hypothetical and difficult to estimate , tax complications might follow — read like a weary defence of the status quo , but the Ministry did in the end accept that their creation of special ad hoc depreciation reserves did go some way to meeting the point . |
| 16 | While the Environment Protection Act will go some way to addressing the situation it does not seem to take into account those owners who will not care if their dog is impounded and destroyed and certainly will not pay to save it . |
| 17 | These recommendations , if they can be fully implemented , should go some way to increasing the globalisation of securities markets by smoothing out problems in world clearance and settlement systems . |
| 18 | The Marine Mammals Protection Act does at least go some way in limiting the dolphin kills , but since its introduction the tuna fishing fleet has become dominated by non-US vessels . |