Example sentences of "went some way to [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But through sensitive playing and a warm humorous script by Bennett , the play went some way to portraying the normality of life with a daughter who is ‘ not quite right ’ . |
| 2 | It would have been impossible to predict the way events developed after October 1917 , and the policy of the Party seemed on numerous grounds to be the most sensible , the only one which went some way to reconciling the need for large economic units ( which , rightly or wrongly , was assumed to be decisive for material progress ) and for democracy , understood as the right of peoples to choose their own State . |
| 3 | The whole anthem affair has been dealt with and the minute 's silence at Newlands went some way to repairing the damage of Ellis Park . |
| 4 | It went some way to repairing their damaged pride after their defeat by Swindon Town at the weekend , Mickey Inotta was there ; Mickey it must have cheered you up a bit . |
| 5 | the philosophy and objectives of the 1981 Education Act , which went some way to implementing the Warnock recommendations , are not much in evidence in the latest legislation . |
| 6 | The draft went some way to meeting ANC demands for curbs on political parties and the security forces . |
| 7 | This last-minute addition went some way to satisfying the psychiatric lobby who had pressed for continuing health authority control . |
| 8 | Europe , not the States , was still the mecca , and many shopping trips by eager Scousers willing to supply the demand in their home city went some way to doing this . |
| 9 | The leaders of Mali , Niger , Libya and Algeria , at a summit hosted by the Algerians in the town of Djanet on Sept. 8-9 , agreed that a joint ministerial committee would address " the resettlement of the concerned peoples and their integration " , and went some way to defusing the tension over Malian accusations that Libya was arming and training the Tuaregs . |