Example sentences of "go [adv] towards [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This in turn may help us to postulate structures beneath the surface , sequences and relations of acts , which may help us to go further towards finding the answer to our original problem : what is it that makes stretches of language coherent and communicative ? |
| 2 | It goes far towards helping to account not only for the high and growing degree of relative autonomy from non-Nazi élites enjoyed by Hitler and the Nazi leadership , but also — as the counterweight to terror , repression , and intimidation — for the weakness of resistance to the regime . |
| 3 | Diplomatically the Avignon popes gave more to Edward than they gained from him , and by their intervention , first to save his favourites and then to bring about peace with Scotland and with France , the terms of which were not relished by the people , the papacy went further towards gaining that ill-reputation which dogged it in fourteenth-century England . |
| 4 | Reforms of this kind would go further towards making the welfare system more redistributive than any likely changes in the structure of services or benefits . |
| 5 | At the end of the century Furtwängler made a new excavation , finding many more pieces , and he went far towards recovering the compositions on paper . |
| 6 | But France , by the beginning of the eighteenth century , had gone far towards creating a modern foreign office , and the prestige of French diplomacy and diplomatic organisation , bolstered by the military successes of Louis ' armies until the 1690s , was very high . |
| 7 | In particular they believed that a State which could dominate the sea and Europe 's trade with the outside world would have gone far towards making herself mistress of the continent . |
| 8 | The presentation of a list of ‘ achievements ’ , as above , plus friendly media coverage will go far towards moving even the most obdurate council in your favour . |
| 9 | A rise in numbers would by itself help to explain why the upper classes were looking for new and wider choice of occupation ; it does not go far towards explaining the popularity of Cîteaux . |
| 10 | This situation would ( as we shall see ) be very desirable in the UK ; some librarians , some teachers and some media specialists have painstakingly and at much personal cost gained dual or multiple status , and the extension of this practice would go far towards resolving unnecessary antagonisms between professional interest groups . |
| 11 | The most it can do is ’ raise issues ’ which go nowhere towards dealing with these . |