Example sentences of "[verb] go some way to [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While English law has gone some way to providing a reasons requirement there are still significant gaps . |
| 2 | This is precisely what the Union has gone some way to doing with its appointment of Glen Ball , Leighton Davies and John Perkins — respectively Neath manager , Maesteg coach and Pontypool coach — to act as Alan Davies 's go-between with the Welsh First Division clubs . |
| 3 | Channel 4 has gone some way to remedying this situation . |
| 4 | However , another group working in the US believes it has gone some way to understanding the link between high pressures and the superconducting state . |
| 5 | The experimental rig that will be built at the UKAEA 's Harwell base is , ironically , called ACHILLES , The NII agrees that recent work in Canada , West Germany and the United States has gone some way to showing the likely scale of the ballooning effect . |
| 6 | France , however , has gone some way to showing that a judicious space programme — based on modest goals and less than the highest technology of the era — need not be excessively costly . |
| 7 | and Mr Potter has gone some way to acknowledging that in saying that the circumstances may change . |
| 8 | If we can answer this question , we shall have gone some way to understanding the different claims made in the Conservative and Labour manifestos . |
| 9 | The initial committee appointed to consider the terms on which to offer William and Mary the Crown , which contained a Whig majority of twenty-eight to twelve , drew up a list of twenty-eight Heads of Grievances which , if all remedied , would have gone some way to satisfying the radicals ' desires . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | My point here is simply that they do go some way to explaining why patterns of co-residence fluctuate over time . |
| 12 | Last night , Mr Robinson said Mr Brooke 's speech had gone some way to getting dialogue ‘ back on the rails . ’ |
| 13 | However , Jim Turle , the director of communications at Lang brothers , said that while Mr Lamont had gone some way to redressing the balance , he had by no means levelled the playing field . |
| 14 | It may be argued that , in 1986 , the Government rejected the idea of abandoning the adjudicatory role of the prison visitors board , which was part of the Prior recommendations , so , as they had gone some way to changing the internal discipline regime , they might reasonably look again at Prior . |
| 15 | They have gone some way to healing their internal rifts . |
| 16 | With the kind assistance of the local estate agencies I have gone some way to tracing the subsequent history of the two properties owned by the above company . |
| 17 | But the electrophysiological examples I have described go some way to countering Wittgenstein 's negative assertion : ‘ No supposition seems to me more natural than that there is no process in the brain correlated with associating or with thinking ; so that it would be impossible to read off thought-processes from brain-processes ’ ( Zettel , paragraph 608 , Anscombe 's translation , 1967 ) . |