Example sentences of "[verb] some way towards " in BNC.

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1 They are so strongly committed to their unionism that they are prepared to go some way towards moving some of their evangelical principles into the area of private life and personal choice , rather than alienate non-evangelical unionists .
2 We need help to go some way towards knowing ourselves and in turn to be able to understand and help others .
3 In our opinion this is the main gap in the orthodox account , and one we hope to go some way towards rectifying .
4 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 .
5 Before you start trying to watch home movies on your PC , remember that although Microsoft is kind enough to include a very basic multi media player and recorder ( both illustrated ) as part of the standard Windows desktop , in order to go some way towards true multi media you need a few more things : a windows multi media extension , a CD-ROM drive , a sound card and probably a new monitor , not to mention that faster machine you 've been promising yourself .
6 The two sides engaged in talks on Jan. 25 , which appeared to go some way towards healing any rift caused by the referendum .
7 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 .
8 He goes some way towards doing this in terms of what he calls ‘ the doctrine of abstract ideas ’ .
9 If this is correct , it goes some way towards dealing with cases of ‘ cumulative provocation ’ , and towards a broader defence of emotional pressure .
10 Which goes some way towards explaining the relative stagnation of the British economy .
11 Pascal goes some way towards this recognition when he observes : ‘ I see , in truth , that the same words are applied on the same occasions , and that every time two men see a body change its place , they both express their view of this same fact by the same word , both saying that it has moved ; and from this conformity of application we derive a strong conviction of a conformity of ideas .
12 McClellan goes some way towards achieving this with his ‘ mean issue per book ratio ’ .
13 Nonetheless , the name adequately describes this unusual laser principle , and goes some way towards explaining the fundamental advantage of FELs .
14 We can not pretend GIS is a solution to the political problems of negotiation and justification but at the very least the openness of the procedures goes some way towards satisfying a worried public .
15 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 .
16 However , the Commission has recently issued a notice which goes some way towards defining the elements of them .
17 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 .
18 He 's lost a dozen in a decade and this goes some way towards explaining his surprisingly philosophical attitude to his own bad luck .
19 The scheme we have described , which has a name-space for contexts that can be ( a ) local to a replacement ; or ( b ) local to a document , or ( c ) global to all documents using a particular library , goes some way towards tackling this problem .
20 Most of the old great Elf towns date from this period and it goes some way towards accounting for their remoteness .
21 If a common phenomenon , this goes some way towards accounting for the ingrained belief that such growth engendered serious economic and social problems , not least Carew 's conviction that the opening of tin workings impoverished a parish , whilst their discontinuance restored prosperity .
22 Although commissions of array continued to be used for major expeditions led by the king or the Prince of Wales , such as those of 1346 and 1359 , the armies which fought in France came increasingly to consist of volunteers rather than conscripts ; and this in itself goes some way towards explaining popular support for the war .
23 It is possible that special introductory units should be produced to get teachers out of the C category ( TESTDRIVE goes some way towards this ) , but at present the CDL teacher is a challenge that every unit must face .
24 The theory also goes some way towards answering the question of why people speak indirectly .
25 By working on the design and the product structure tree ( PST ) in parallel the designer goes some way towards ensuring that there is a logical manufacturing sequence that does not require , for example , partial disassembly at some stage .
26 By working on the design and the product structure tree ( PST ) in parallel the designer goes some way towards ensuring that there is a logical manufacturing sequence that does not require , for example , partial disassembly at some stage .
27 This goes some way towards typing the organism causing the disease .
28 The fact that other quick-service restaurants are increasingly adopting the McDonald 's approach to business and training goes some way towards explaining why the sector is growing rapidly even in the midst of recession .
29 Scale 2 is structured to manifest the nature of this likeness ; Mixed Life is less ambitious , but the moderate clarity of its argument is based on , and goes some way towards revealing , an understanding of the structure of personality as the means by which God is conceived in time .
30 Encouraging staff to appreciate the cost of information goes some way towards helping them to quantify the value of information . ’
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