Example sentences of "go some way [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are so strongly committed to their unionism that they are prepared to go some way towards moving some of their evangelical principles into the area of private life and personal choice , rather than alienate non-evangelical unionists . |
| 2 | We need help to go some way towards knowing ourselves and in turn to be able to understand and help others . |
| 3 | In our opinion this is the main gap in the orthodox account , and one we hope to go some way towards rectifying . |
| 4 | They seemed to go some way towards encapsulating the challenges that the notion of a shift of power to students holds for those immediately Involved . |
| 5 | Before you start trying to watch home movies on your PC , remember that although Microsoft is kind enough to include a very basic multi media player and recorder ( both illustrated ) as part of the standard Windows desktop , in order to go some way towards true multi media you need a few more things : a windows multi media extension , a CD-ROM drive , a sound card and probably a new monitor , not to mention that faster machine you 've been promising yourself . |
| 6 | The two sides engaged in talks on Jan. 25 , which appeared to go some way towards healing any rift caused by the referendum . |
| 7 | Washington even seemed prepared to go some way towards meeting the desire of the USSR to revise the treaties relating to the rights of passage by warships through the Straits between the Black Sea and the Mediterranean — an issue with a long and complicated history reaching back into tsarist times . |
| 8 | By listening to her children 's language ( which , to quote T S Eliot , ‘ is the fluid in which all else is suspended ’ ) the teacher is able to go some way in interpreting their individual levels of development and maturation . |
| 9 | 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 ’ . |
| 10 | It is a humdrum enough explanation which goes some way to explaining why most public appointments are so dull . |
| 11 | Its cover goes some way to explaining its theme : an immaculately manicured female hand crushing a pair of golf balls . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 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 | The idea goes some way to explaining why some individuals with red cell mutations are immune to Plasmodium infection . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The index goes some way to overcoming these problems . |
| 18 | This booklet goes some way to providing a resource . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The second technical achievement which goes some way to explaining Ramsay 's success , is his superb draughtsmanship . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Germany 's First Air Force , by Peter Kiduff , goes some way to redressing the balance with the story of the German Air Force during World War One . |
| 24 | This goes some way to explaining why the complicated campaigns within Toulouse in the second half of the century were largely fought out under the banners of the Angevin , Aragonese , and French kings ; and why the revolts of Henry II 's sons had widespread ramifications . |
| 25 | All this formed a background to the first century of crusading ; and it goes some way to explaining the more secular aspects of the magnetism which drew French knights to take up the cross in their thousands . |
| 26 | The Great Detective , for all that he figures in mere detective stories , is a figure to parallel with the great poet and the great scientist because in solving the sort of genuinely baffling mystery that confronts him , in fact he goes some way to solving a yet greater mystery , the mystery of the human personality . |
| 27 | On the one hand , setting and enforcing more adequate levels of child support goes some way to redressing the balance of the current situation where the costs of supporting children fall almost entirely on the mother . |
| 28 | The autobiographical source of the novel also goes some way to explaining the method of presentation of Antoine 's character which at a personal level reflects a tension between a father and a son , and at a historical level reflects a tension between two different epochs . |
| 29 | The examination is a collection of questions and individually a question goes some way to satisfying the requirements of the examination . |
| 30 | A basic page printer comes with a controller and not a RIP which goes some way to explaining the lack of control that can be achieved with printers like HP 's LaserJet and Ricoh 's 4080 . |