Example sentences of "gone [adj] way towards [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr. Galbraith : The Minister has certainly gone some way towards clarifying the position , and it would not be proper for me to be mean-spirited . |
| 2 | The Minister has gone some way towards allaying those fears by adding the proviso that any money from disposals should be used for the acquisition of further works . |
| 3 | By the spring of 1937 the Largo Caballero government had gone some way towards taming the process of social revolution and absorbing the militias into a regular army built around the Communists ' own Fifth Regiment . |
| 4 | Whilst an extension of the deconcentration of central government might have gone some way towards abating these feelings , it was not considered by the majority to be a sufficient remedy . |
| 5 | One got one goal , the other got two , so have they gone some way towards proving that to you ? |
| 6 | In two recent articles in Screen , Steve Neale has gone some way towards extending the theorization of film genre along both general and particular lines . |
| 7 | In Frome , as elsewhere , a large proportion of the population lacked the general state of good health which would have gone some way towards combating these killer diseases . |