Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] go some [noun sg] towards " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is our hope that the papers in this collection go some way towards rebutting such charges . |
| 2 | Most serfs lived in miserable poverty , although the communal traditions of medieval villages went some way towards alleviating the worst forms of hardship . |
| 3 | Zeki 's data show that colour is represented in V4 while only wavelength information is prominent in Vl but , while these data go some way towards answering some important questions about colour vision , they do n't solve all the problems . |
| 4 | With the introduction of System 6.0.2 Apple went some way towards reducing the problem by adding a new resource called NFNT . |
| 5 | A reference , as in the precedent , to the retained parts goes some way towards covering the point , but the damage or destruction of neighbouring units in a shopping centre could also render the premises unusable . |
| 6 | A Swedish study went some way towards achieving this aim by using soldier ‘ volunteers ’ and keeping them awake for about 72 hours in a constant environment . |
| 7 | Ford 's short presidency went some way towards restoring the unity of the nation ; it left no great mark otherwise , but he was sufficiently respected by 1976 to gain the Republican nomination against his main rival , Ronald Reagan . |
| 8 | To connect their knowledge with the language system people use reasoning , and pragmatic theories go some way towards explaining how people reason their way from the form to the function and thus construct coherent discourse from the language they receive . |
| 9 | I have on several afternoons gone some way towards the beginning of a new mythology , which might in a thousand years puzzle the Germans . |
| 10 | They appeared to have lost the art for a while ; last night went some way towards suggesting they had got it back . |