Example sentences of "[conj] go some way towards [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Leading lights of the service sector , headed by Racal , could produce results that go some way towards alleviating the gloomy economic prospects again this week , even if Friday 's poor inflation figure ca n't be glossed over . |
| 2 | Scale 2 is structured to manifest the nature of this likeness ; Mixed Life is less ambitious , but the moderate clarity of its argument is based on , and goes some way towards revealing , an understanding of the structure of personality as the means by which God is conceived in time . |
| 3 | Nonetheless , the name adequately describes this unusual laser principle , and goes some way towards explaining the fundamental advantage of FELs . |
| 4 | Although the legislation before us will provide some elements and go some way towards meeting the criticisms of Government policy outlined in the Woolf report , it is important to realise that there is still a great deal that needs to be done . |
| 5 | This defeat of Ecgfrith represented a decisive stage in the delineation of the frontier between Mercians and northern Angles — so that henceforth the power of the king of the northern Angles was more narrowly defined as north-Humbrian — and went some way towards redressing the débâle of Wulfhere 's last year or so . |