Example sentences of "some way towards [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is proposed that hypertext systems go some way towards providing students with alternative structures for organizing their knowledge of electronic publishing . |
| 2 | Similarly the engineering of plants to produce their own crop-protection chemicals and nutrients , especially nitrogen , could go some way towards offsetting the often detrimental side-effects that artificially produced pesticides and fertilisers can exert on the environment ( sections 6.3 and 6.4 ) . |
| 3 | The government went some way towards implementing some of the measures the Reports proposed in common , due largely to Winston Churchill 's initiative . |
| 4 | Mr. Galbraith : The Minister has certainly gone some way towards clarifying the position , and it would not be proper for me to be mean-spirited . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 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 | This would go some way towards producing an equitable balance of provision between the urban and rural areas . |
| 9 | The Parish Council think this would go some way towards producing a more equitable balance of service provision between the urban and rural areas . |
| 10 | One got one goal , the other got two , so have they gone some way towards proving that to you ? |
| 11 | By the spring of 1937 the Largo Caballero government had gone some way towards taming the process of social revolution and absorbing the militias into a regular army built around the Communists ' own Fifth Regiment . |
| 12 | 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 ) . |
| 13 | If this is correct , it goes some way towards dealing with cases of ‘ cumulative provocation ’ , and towards a broader defence of emotional pressure . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Whilst an extension of the deconcentration of central government might have gone some way towards abating these feelings , it was not considered by the majority to be a sufficient remedy . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | We need help to go some way towards knowing ourselves and in turn to be able to understand and help others . |
| 18 | This goes some way towards typing the organism causing the disease . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The microfilm used in conjunction with a mobile radio telephone would go some way towards easing outreach work but such a combination is probably beyond the resources of most bureaux . |
| 22 | The pain of childbirth is legendary , but positive thinking and modern methods of pain relief can go some way towards easing the situation |
| 23 | The new student hostel will go some way towards easing the problem , providing an extra two hundred and eighty places . |
| 24 | While the reforms of 1988/89 do go some way towards creating a more effective regional policy in that the dispersion of funds has shifted towards the poorer regions , given the gulf between the rhetoric of the commitment to balanced development and the extent of subsequent policy action , it is difficult to escape the conclusion that the issue of space and the impact of EC policies over space are but a minimal consideration in the design of a greater vision . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | McClellan goes some way towards achieving this with his ‘ mean issue per book ratio ’ . |
| 27 | Improvements in the overall forestry infrastructure , involving inventory acquisition through to logging , would at least go some way towards achieving better resource use . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |