Example sentences of "go some way [prep] [v-ing] [det] " in BNC.

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1 The two sides engaged in talks on Jan. 25 , which appeared to go some way towards healing any rift caused by the referendum .
2 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 .
3 A procedure called hanning , named after its protagonist , a nineteenth century Austrian meteorologist called Julius von Hann , goes some way to meeting these criticisms .
4 Mr Campbell added : ‘ Anything which goes some way to alleviating this problem has to be a good thing . ’
5 The index goes some way to overcoming these problems .
6 McClellan goes some way towards achieving this with his ‘ mean issue per book ratio ’ .
7 He goes some way towards doing this in terms of what he calls ‘ the doctrine of abstract ideas ’ .
8 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 .
9 Europe , not the States , was still the mecca , and many shopping trips by eager Scousers willing to supply the demand in their home city went some way to doing this .
10 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 .
11 The government went some way towards implementing some of the measures the Reports proposed in common , due largely to Winston Churchill 's initiative .
12 Zeki 's data show that colour is represented in V4 while only wavelength information is prominent in Vl but , while these data go some way towards answering some important questions about colour vision , they do n't solve all the problems .
13 It is our hope that the papers in this collection go some way towards rebutting such charges .
14 If roads were contained within a perspex tunnel and regularly patrolled by wildlife wardens , armed with splints and bandages and trained in every kind of veterinary first aid , I suppose it might go some way towards reducing this tragic toll .
15 Filtering the definitions may go some way towards reducing this effect , and is suggested as an area for further research .
16 The third is the possibility , suggested also by Katib Celebi 's account of the office and supported to some degree by several contemporary documents , that there may have been a separate official muftilik of Edirne during the period : unfortunately , so shadowy is the evidence for its existence that as matters now stand it merely adds to the confusion , though could the facts about it be discovered , they might go some way toward resolving some of the problems in this vexed period .
17 Salt has the effect of reducing the excretion of urine and as a bonus , it will go some way to controlling some of the parasites that your fish may have .
18 Hopefully this brief article will go some way to redressing this .
19 The paper accepted at the November Council on ‘ Suggested Changes to Branch Recruitment ’ will go some way to addressing these problems .
20 In this volume we have tried to bring together a collection that will go some way to answering these questions without losing sight of either city experience in a welter of academic abstraction or powerful analysis in a stream of political rhetoric .
21 Part of this dependence is simply being used to being ‘ under the influence ’ or ‘ stoned ’ for a long period of time and drugs such as cannabis and amphetamines may go some way to overcoming this problem .
22 The replacement of Mr Burbulis , which the decree said was at his own request , will go some way to placating those in both the liberal and conservative camps annoyed by his somewhat high-handed manner .
23 The judicious use of " open-ended " questions can go some way to mitigating these effects by making the questionnaire more varied and interesting .
24 Channel 4 has gone some way to remedying this situation .
25 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 .
26 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 .
27 One got one goal , the other got two , so have they gone some way towards proving that to you ?
28 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 .
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