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

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 Most serfs lived in miserable poverty , although the communal traditions of medieval villages went some way towards alleviating the worst forms of hardship .
4 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 .
5 It is proposed that hypertext systems go some way towards providing students with alternative structures for organizing their knowledge of electronic publishing .
6 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 .
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