Example sentences of "go some [noun sg] " 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 | 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 . |
4 | Municipal autonomy in the regions of Italy and state autonomy in the USA seems to go some way to account for the ease of transfer of care . |
5 | In our opinion this is the main gap in the orthodox account , and one we hope to go some way towards rectifying . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | The two sides engaged in talks on Jan. 25 , which appeared to go some way towards healing any rift caused by the referendum . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | And I thought you might want to go some time anyway er , not on a Sunday . |
11 | You can see that that now is quite a substantial length of new road er which in fact er does bypass the Ripley roundabout er and goes some distance to the north on the A sixty one where it rejoins . |
12 | The two poems could be thought to occupy a common ground which goes some way beyond topography , and includes a stretch of the common ground occupied by imitation . |
13 | 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 ’ . |
14 | He goes some way towards doing this in terms of what he calls ‘ the doctrine of abstract ideas ’ . |
15 | If this is correct , it goes some way towards dealing with cases of ‘ cumulative provocation ’ , and towards a broader defence of emotional pressure . |
16 | Which goes some way towards explaining the relative stagnation of the British economy . |
17 | It is a humdrum enough explanation which goes some way to explaining why most public appointments are so dull . |
18 | Pascal goes some way towards this recognition when he observes : ‘ I see , in truth , that the same words are applied on the same occasions , and that every time two men see a body change its place , they both express their view of this same fact by the same word , both saying that it has moved ; and from this conformity of application we derive a strong conviction of a conformity of ideas . |
19 | Its cover goes some way to explaining its theme : an immaculately manicured female hand crushing a pair of golf balls . |
20 | 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 . |
21 | The same general analysis goes some way toward explaining why context-specificity should be more easily demonstrable in appetitive conditioning . |
22 | 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 . |
23 | McClellan goes some way towards achieving this with his ‘ mean issue per book ratio ’ . |
24 | Nonetheless , the name adequately describes this unusual laser principle , and goes some way towards explaining the fundamental advantage of FELs . |
25 | A procedure called hanning , named after its protagonist , a nineteenth century Austrian meteorologist called Julius von Hann , goes some way to meeting these criticisms . |
26 | 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 . |
27 | The idea goes some way to explaining why some individuals with red cell mutations are immune to Plasmodium infection . |
28 | 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 . |
29 | The encroachment of urban sprawl on the countryside may be cause for regret , but we are a nation of gardeners , and the English passion for gardening goes some way to ameliorate the impact of an increasing population on a small crowded island . |
30 | Surely a forlorn ambition , but it goes some way to explain , what would otherwise be so difficult to understand , why eminent members of the nascent |