Example sentences of "go some way towards [v-ing] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Washington even seemed prepared to go some way towards meeting the desire of the USSR to revise the treaties relating to the rights of passage by warships through the Straits between the Black Sea and the Mediterranean — an issue with a long and complicated history reaching back into tsarist times . |
| 2 | They seemed to go some way towards encapsulating the challenges that the notion of a shift of power to students holds for those immediately Involved . |
| 3 | Other than that last point ( which goes some way towards alienating the Champ 25SE from its natural ally , the Stratocaster ) this is a good , solidly made amplifier , which has had a lot of thought put into its design , is likely to maintain its resale value and deserves examination . |
| 4 | However , the Commission has recently issued a notice which goes some way towards defining the elements of them . |
| 5 | This goes some way towards typing the organism causing the disease . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Which goes some way towards explaining the relative stagnation of the British economy . |
| 8 | Nonetheless , the name adequately describes this unusual laser principle , and goes some way towards explaining the fundamental advantage of FELs . |
| 9 | It probably means that the average family is a much more relaxed affair than the traditional Scottish household used to be , but it goes some way towards explaining the numbers of children at risk in our society from adults outside the home , as well as from their own undisciplined emotions . |
| 10 | Mel Thompson ( chapter 9 ) goes some way towards rescuing the term , arguing that whilst the trumpeting of particular forms of entrepreneurial success is dangerous because it can be used to locate the blame for economic distress on the victims of economic disruptions , it is equally worthwhile not disparaging a broad set of practices that qualify under a more conventional definition of this term . |
| 11 | The theory also goes some way towards answering the question of why people speak indirectly . |
| 12 | This defeat of Ecgfrith represented a decisive stage in the delineation of the frontier between Mercians and northern Angles — so that henceforth the power of the king of the northern Angles was more narrowly defined as north-Humbrian — and went some way towards redressing the débâle of Wulfhere 's last year or so . |
| 13 | Nor is the provision of chapter 41 far removed in spirit and intention from the statute of Gloucester of 1278 , which went some way towards enlarging the traditional right of a lord to distrain chattels of a tenant who failed to render his dues into a right to recover the property involved . |
| 14 | Through a series of reforms , most notably the retiring on full pay of some 8,000 officers , Azaña went some way towards achieving the first of these goals . |
| 15 | He was also invited to conduct a Mass of his own before the imperial court , which , according to Leopold , went some way towards repairing the damage their enemies had done by preventing the opera . |
| 16 | Most serfs lived in miserable poverty , although the communal traditions of medieval villages went some way towards alleviating the worst forms of hardship . |
| 17 | The Liber Historiae Francorum went some way towards connecting the evidence of Sulpicius Alexander with the Trojan migration legend by making the supposed father of Chlodio , Faramund , the son of Sunno , thus uniting the Trojan and Merovingian families . |
| 18 | In general they did not seek harsh retributory sentences once order had been restored and in a surprisingly large number of cases actually went some way towards meeting the wishes of the crowd by doing something to encourage a lowering of prices and initiating or participating in relief measures . |
| 19 | This had been especially the case in budgetary matters and the foundation of the CBO went some way towards correcting the situation . |
| 20 | He was the focal point of a vibrant Liverpool first half performance which went some way towards lifting the cloak of despondency draped over Anfield by Spartak 's superiority on Wednesday . |
| 21 | This went some way towards closing the financial gap between Gloucester 's endowment and that of his brother Clarence , but income is probably all that the grant was designed to provide . |
| 22 | This went some way towards closing the financial gap between Gloucester 's endowment and that of his brother Clarence , but income is probably all that the grant was designed to provide . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | With the introduction of System 6.0.2 Apple went some way towards reducing the problem by adding a new resource called NFNT . |
| 25 | Leading lights of the service sector , headed by Racal , could produce results that go some way towards alleviating the gloomy economic prospects again this week , even if Friday 's poor inflation figure ca n't be glossed over . |
| 26 | Although the legislation before us will provide some elements and go some way towards meeting the criticisms of Government policy outlined in the Woolf report , it is important to realise that there is still a great deal that needs to be done . |
| 27 | There are still many anomalies and too many disabled persons are dependent on income support , but at least the attendance and mobility allowances go some way towards acknowledging the financial burdens of disability . |
| 28 | If he is right , then the more enlightened upbringing of English children since the war may also , oddly , go some way towards explaining the much-touted decline in contemporary English drama . |
| 29 | The power structure and finances of the Church go some way towards explaining the management of its buildings . |
| 30 | 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 ) . |