Example sentences of "go some way towards [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ) . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | This would go some way towards producing an equitable balance of provision between the urban and rural areas . |
| 4 | The Parish Council think this would go some way towards producing a more equitable balance of service provision between the urban and rural areas . |
| 5 | Improvements in the overall forestry infrastructure , involving inventory acquisition through to logging , would at least go some way towards achieving better resource use . |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The pain of childbirth is legendary , but positive thinking and modern methods of pain relief can go some way towards easing the situation |
| 9 | The new student hostel will go some way towards easing the problem , providing an extra two hundred and eighty places . |
| 10 | He does go some way towards outlining counter-arguments and replies , but his style is the playful one of a cat with a mouse . |
| 11 | AN APOLOGY could go some way towards reconciling warring factions Micky McKeown and crisis club Glenavon . |
| 12 | Thus the computer model will go some way towards giving a fundamental understanding of the dynamics of the shaft itself without being able to explain fully the contribution made by the individual player . |
| 13 | The full implementation of the substance and spirit of the Wagner Committee 's proposals might go some way towards giving people in institutions a greater say . |
| 14 | Few animals inspire such extremes of love and hate as the fox , and this may go some way towards explaining why so much nonsense is written and talked about them . |
| 15 | This may go some way towards explaining the difference of opinion in the various ‘ recommended ’ lists ; it all depends from what point of view ( or various shades thereof ) one is approaching the task , and for whose benefit ? |
| 16 | These opium-induced trances may have produced states of awareness and revelation which explain some of the fantastic imagery of Minoan religious art , and which may even go some way towards explaining the extraordinary architectural achievements of the temple-builders . |
| 17 | Again , if we can understand the reasons for these choices , we may go some way towards explaining that strange feeling teachers have when reading a piece of written work in which every sentence is grammatically correct , and yet there is something not quite right . |
| 18 | We do not understand it , they say , by which they seem to mean that we can not set it out in everyday words ( though actually one can go some way towards doing so , as I tried to do in Chapter V of The particle Play ) . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Attention has also been focused on the enhancement of soil nitrogen by the use of nitrogen-fixing bacteria which , if successful on a large scale , could go some way towards reducing environmental problems associated with the widespread use of nitrogen fertilisers ( section 6.3.1 ) . |
| 21 | Filtering the definitions may go some way towards reducing this effect , and is suggested as an area for further research . |
| 22 | Isabel felt a great calm , a satisfaction , for all this would surely go some way towards cancelling out the effects of her sister Faith 's thoughtlessness . |
| 23 | His status may go some way towards clearing up the misunderstanding which must have arisen , for in Gloucestershire manors belonging to another royal ward were also left unassessed . |
| 24 | However , the prompter investigation of obvious delays in the receipt of current serial parts might go some way towards improving the situation . |
| 25 | In the chapters which follow , I will attempt to offer a more satisfying and , hopefully , iconoclastic alternative ; satisfying because it will place the explanatory emphasis on definite social processes which perpetuate the invidious position of blacks both in and out of sport ; and iconoclastic because it will at least go some way towards smashing the outdated image of the black man as possessing natural physical abilities that are determined , in the last instance , by his race . |
| 26 | Will he go some way towards reviewing the process ? |
| 27 | This was a good rule , and its return — to include the requirement for all firms with more than 20 partners to convert to limited company status — would go some way towards solving the problem of astronomical negligence claims and the consequently soaring costs of professional indemnity insurance . |
| 28 | Such a move would go some way towards solving the looming problems of succession . |
| 29 | This will go some way towards relieving the anxiety of those who felt that the fine and reprimands were far too limp . |