Example sentences of "gone [adj] way [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Stefan waited until he had gone some way down the road , then rushed out to the telephone .
2 Last night , Mr Robinson said Mr Brooke 's speech had gone some way to getting dialogue ‘ back on the rails . ’
3 Although the Brady debt initiative has gone some way to potentially alleviating the debt problems of Chile , Colombia , Costa Rica , Mexico and Uruguay — those countries which have made serious adjustments — two of the biggest debtors , Brazil and Argentina , remain outside the ring .
4 They have gone some way to healing their internal rifts .
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 However , another group working in the US believes it has gone some way to understanding the link between high pressures and the superconducting state .
7 Channel 4 has gone some way to remedying this situation .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 While English law has gone some way to providing a reasons requirement there are still significant gaps .
11 Our disposal programme , which has raised approximately £1 billion to date , together with reductions in capital and operating expenditure , has gone some way to improving gearing and strengthening our balance sheet .
12 If we can answer this question , we shall have gone some way to understanding the different claims made in the Conservative and Labour manifestos .
13 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 .
14 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 .
15 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 .
16 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 .
17 and Mr Potter has gone some way to acknowledging that in saying that the circumstances may change .
18 I have on several afternoons gone some way towards the beginning of a new mythology , which might in a thousand years puzzle the Germans .
19 In two recent articles in Screen , Steve Neale has gone some way towards extending the theorization of film genre along both general and particular lines .
20 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 .
21 In Frome , as elsewhere , a large proportion of the population lacked the general state of good health which would have gone some way towards combating these killer diseases .
22 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 .
23 France has gone some way towards the Canadian pattern .
24 But Mala had gone some way towards the opposite .
25 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 .
26 The Minister has gone some way towards allaying those fears by adding the proviso that any money from disposals should be used for the acquisition of further works .
27 One got one goal , the other got two , so have they gone some way towards proving that to you ?
28 When they had gone some way from here , the Garda received a radio message , stopped and turned around .
29 He believed , moreover , that although man 's reason had gone some way in ‘ its great and proper business of morality ’ , the progress had been slow .
30 The first point which everybody had overlooked was that Wordsworth hoped ‘ to make money ’ with Lyrical Ballads , and presumably thought that he had gone some way in making concessions to popular taste .
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