Example sentences of "[vb pp] some way [prep] " in BNC.

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1 The live anniversary performance of Messiah by George Frederic Handel ( C4 , Monday : 8.30–11.40 pm ) will be given some way from down-at-heel Fishamble Street at the Point Theatre .
2 Royston CAB has come some way towards solving the shelf space problem and the updating costs of holding more than one information system in a bureau .
3 In masochism the energy is directed on to the ego , not an object , where the ego is itself libidinized as in narcissism. rn this way Freud had moved some way to producing a new synthesis of the three dichotomies : ego instincts , and sexual instincts ; ego and object choices within one set of instincts only , the sexual instincts ; and , finally , the life instincts ( sexual ) and the death instincts .
4 The Foreign Office has moved some way towards the French idea that the Western European Union ( WEU ) should become the Community 's forum for defence policy .
5 We should note that we have already moved some way from the Greek conception of democracy as government by the people themselves .
6 The Latin origins of the word refer to a course in the sense of race-course , but its current meaning in education has moved some way from that .
7 Tolby must have had some way of preventing Hubert from talking .
8 I think as long as you 've got some way of dealing with things you can live with them .
9 And the reason for a , a lot of fashion and a lot of change in the fashions , one of the reasons is because these men had , needed some way of showing off their wealth .
10 But if I know our Emily , she 'll have found some way of getting out of City Europe .
11 Jo and Ryan had been dating for six months and had progressed some way beyond parking now .
12 Stefan waited until he had gone some way down the road , then rushed out to the telephone .
13 Last night , Mr Robinson said Mr Brooke 's speech had gone some way to getting dialogue ‘ back on the rails . ’
14 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 .
15 They have gone some way to healing their internal rifts .
16 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 .
17 However , another group working in the US believes it has gone some way to understanding the link between high pressures and the superconducting state .
18 Channel 4 has gone some way to remedying this situation .
19 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 .
20 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 .
21 While English law has gone some way to providing a reasons requirement there are still significant gaps .
22 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 .
23 If we can answer this question , we shall have gone some way to understanding the different claims made in the Conservative and Labour manifestos .
24 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 .
25 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 .
26 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 .
27 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 .
28 and Mr Potter has gone some way to acknowledging that in saying that the circumstances may change .
29 I have on several afternoons gone some way towards the beginning of a new mythology , which might in a thousand years puzzle the Germans .
30 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 .
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