Example sentences of "[noun] go some way towards [v-ing] " in BNC.

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1 Through a series of reforms , most notably the retiring on full pay of some 8,000 officers , Azaña went some way towards achieving the first of these goals .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 McClellan goes some way towards achieving this with his ‘ mean issue per book ratio ’ .
5 This had been especially the case in budgetary matters and the foundation of the CBO went some way towards correcting the situation .
6 They appeared to have lost the art for a while ; last night went some way towards suggesting they had got it back .
7 It is our hope that the papers in this collection go some way towards rebutting such charges .
8 To connect their knowledge with the language system people use reasoning , and pragmatic theories go some way towards explaining how people reason their way from the form to the function and thus construct coherent discourse from the language they receive .
9 With the introduction of System 6.0.2 Apple went some way towards reducing the problem by adding a new resource called NFNT .
10 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 .
11 Most serfs lived in miserable poverty , although the communal traditions of medieval villages went some way towards alleviating the worst forms of hardship .
12 The power structure and finances of the Church go some way towards explaining the management of its buildings .
13 The government went some way towards implementing some of the measures the Reports proposed in common , due largely to Winston Churchill 's initiative .
14 The Liber Historiae Francorum went some way towards connecting the evidence of Sulpicius Alexander with the Trojan migration legend by making the supposed father of Chlodio , Faramund , the son of Sunno , thus uniting the Trojan and Merovingian families .
15 By paying particular attention to texts and images created by women in the visual arts and performance as well as in literature , the book goes some way towards making up for the lack of awareness of women 's art .
16 The fact that other quick-service restaurants are increasingly adopting the McDonald 's approach to business and training goes some way towards explaining why the sector is growing rapidly even in the midst of recession .
17 Encouraging staff to appreciate the cost of information goes some way towards helping them to quantify the value of information . ’
18 The boy shrugged , raising his brows with a mild affectation of surprise that it could be thought to be important ; but the stillness of his face and the steadiness of his eyes on Hotspur went some way towards betraying him .
19 There are still many anomalies and too many disabled persons are dependent on income support , but at least the attendance and mobility allowances go some way towards acknowledging the financial burdens of disability .
20 It is proposed that hypertext systems go some way towards providing students with alternative structures for organizing their knowledge of electronic publishing .
21 Ford 's short presidency went some way towards restoring the unity of the nation ; it left no great mark otherwise , but he was sufficiently respected by 1976 to gain the Republican nomination against his main rival , Ronald Reagan .
22 A reference , as in the precedent , to the retained parts goes some way towards covering the point , but the damage or destruction of neighbouring units in a shopping centre could also render the premises unusable .
23 By working on the design and the product structure tree ( PST ) in parallel the designer goes some way towards ensuring that there is a logical manufacturing sequence that does not require , for example , partial disassembly at some stage .
24 By working on the design and the product structure tree ( PST ) in parallel the designer goes some way towards ensuring that there is a logical manufacturing sequence that does not require , for example , partial disassembly at some stage .
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