Example sentences of "[vb past] some way towards " in BNC.
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| 1 | Labour moved some way towards electoral reform with the Plant Committee , but while Kinnock himself favours change , he feared that a commitment to electoral reform would split the party . |
| 2 | FISA , the governing body , went some way towards assuaging Senna 's grief by banning Mansell from Sunday 's race even though the court of appeal is not due to sit until Thursday . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It was not quite what she envisaged for herself but it had the advantage of being cheap and it went some way towards satisfying Grace , who was convinced that London was a den of iniquity waiting to swallow up her unsuspecting daughter . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | This had been especially the case in budgetary matters and the foundation of the CBO went some way towards correcting the situation . |
| 8 | Most serfs lived in miserable poverty , although the communal traditions of medieval villages went some way towards alleviating the worst forms of hardship . |
| 9 | The government went some way towards implementing some of the measures the Reports proposed in common , due largely to Winston Churchill 's initiative . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | In Council for Civil Service Unions v. Minister for the Civil Service ( H. L. , 1984 ) the House of Lords went some way towards the view that they could control the way the prerogative was exercised . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 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 | Originally the scheme allowed for pensions to be calculated on the best twenty years of earnings , which at least went some way towards enabling women , who spend some rime out of the labour market caring for dependants , to maximize their future pension . |
| 15 | With the introduction of System 6.0.2 Apple went some way towards reducing the problem by adding a new resource called NFNT . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The boy shrugged , raising his brows with a mild affectation of surprise that it could be thought to be important ; but the stillness of his face and the steadiness of his eyes on Hotspur went some way towards betraying him . |
| 18 | They appeared to have lost the art for a while ; last night went some way towards suggesting they had got it back . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | For example , the Patents Act 1977 went some way towards achieving compatibility , and the consolidation of moral rights in copyright law , which is a traditional European concept , reinforces the move towards European trading unity . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | In 1934 a new unemployment Act was passed which went some way towards relieving a gradually diminishing problem . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Early on , the RCM tried hard to play down differences with policy statements which leaned some way towards orthodoxy without limiting the freedom of the RCM to act in what it regarded as the best interests of individual children . |