Example sentences of "goes some way " in BNC.
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| 1 | The two poems could be thought to occupy a common ground which goes some way beyond topography , and includes a stretch of the common ground occupied by imitation . |
| 2 | Sir Kenneth Newman — then commandant — suggests that the book 's claim to attention is that its contents are contributed by insiders ; while in their introduction , the authors claim it goes some way to challenging Holdaway 's claim ( 1979 ) that ‘ research from the Police Staff College has not resulted in a major project on the police ’ . |
| 3 | He goes some way towards doing this in terms of what he calls ‘ the doctrine of abstract ideas ’ . |
| 4 | If this is correct , it goes some way towards dealing with cases of ‘ cumulative provocation ’ , and towards a broader defence of emotional pressure . |
| 5 | Which goes some way towards explaining the relative stagnation of the British economy . |
| 6 | It is a humdrum enough explanation which goes some way to explaining why most public appointments are so dull . |
| 7 | Pascal goes some way towards this recognition when he observes : ‘ I see , in truth , that the same words are applied on the same occasions , and that every time two men see a body change its place , they both express their view of this same fact by the same word , both saying that it has moved ; and from this conformity of application we derive a strong conviction of a conformity of ideas . |
| 8 | Its cover goes some way to explaining its theme : an immaculately manicured female hand crushing a pair of golf balls . |
| 9 | It is difficult to avoid the comparison with present day Germany in relation to the other states of the EC and the quotation goes some way to explaining the motives for closer integration . |
| 10 | The same general analysis goes some way toward explaining why context-specificity should be more easily demonstrable in appetitive conditioning . |
| 11 | The social relations of production under which land is used is a key and pervasive element in the explanation of soil erosion ; it also goes some way to explaining the nature of the state — which intervenes and influences the use of land in all sorts of ways . |
| 12 | McClellan goes some way towards achieving this with his ‘ mean issue per book ratio ’ . |
| 13 | Nonetheless , the name adequately describes this unusual laser principle , and goes some way towards explaining the fundamental advantage of FELs . |
| 14 | A procedure called hanning , named after its protagonist , a nineteenth century Austrian meteorologist called Julius von Hann , goes some way to meeting these criticisms . |
| 15 | We can not pretend GIS is a solution to the political problems of negotiation and justification but at the very least the openness of the procedures goes some way towards satisfying a worried public . |
| 16 | The idea goes some way to explaining why some individuals with red cell mutations are immune to Plasmodium infection . |
| 17 | The letter goes some way to explaining the 14 months delay between June 1981 , when harmful side-effects from Opren were first reported to an international conference , and August 1982 when the drug was withdrawn . |
| 18 | The encroachment of urban sprawl on the countryside may be cause for regret , but we are a nation of gardeners , and the English passion for gardening goes some way to ameliorate the impact of an increasing population on a small crowded island . |
| 19 | Surely a forlorn ambition , but it goes some way to explain , what would otherwise be so difficult to understand , why eminent members of the nascent |
| 20 | The index goes some way to overcoming these problems . |
| 21 | Mel Thompson ( chapter 9 ) goes some way towards rescuing the term , arguing that whilst the trumpeting of particular forms of entrepreneurial success is dangerous because it can be used to locate the blame for economic distress on the victims of economic disruptions , it is equally worthwhile not disparaging a broad set of practices that qualify under a more conventional definition of this term . |
| 22 | However , the Commission has recently issued a notice which goes some way towards defining the elements of them . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | This booklet goes some way to providing a resource . |
| 25 | Environment Minister David Maclean told an audience at Tory Central Office : ‘ The rain of the last few days goes some way to replenishing the reservoirs . |
| 26 | The second technical achievement which goes some way to explaining Ramsay 's success , is his superb draughtsmanship . |
| 27 | He 's lost a dozen in a decade and this goes some way towards explaining his surprisingly philosophical attitude to his own bad luck . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Of course clubs such as Neath and Pontypool are not really supposed to be at the head of the Welsh pecking-order , which goes some way to explaining why they become so unpopular when they do . |
| 30 | More recent work on observation of , rather than experiment with thinking ( Johnson-Laird and Wason , 1977 ) goes some way to restoring the balance in appraising all the relevant parameters in a real situation where thinking is taking place . |