Example sentences of "a [adj] way towards " in BNC.
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| 1 | This does not imply that there are no innate drives , including inner biological drives , nor that human beings are always likely to act in a selfless way towards others . |
| 2 | In fact , it was one of the few times I had seen him act in a civil way towards his stepmother . |
| 3 | However , progress in a similar way towards an understanding of the mechanics of weathering processes ( e.g. Curtis , 1976 ) requires not only an adequate knowledge of chemistry and of exchange reactions , but also of processes at a different scale . |
| 4 | Lasagna explains : ‘ The West has been behaving in a miserly way towards the Russians . |
| 5 | He believed that parliamentary government could go a great way towards securing personal liberty but ‘ neither parliamentary government nor any other form of constitution … will ever of itself remove all or half the sufferings of human beings . |
| 6 | But d-i-y treatment will go a long way towards keeping rot at bay , and you should be prepared to give freshly exposed cut surfaces of both cladding and battens an extra coat of preservative during installation for extra protection . |
| 7 | Mr Gandhi has an election coming up and a big one-day cricket tournament not only goes down well with the electorate , but also goes a long way towards providing a short-term solution to the unemployment problem . |
| 8 | The Thatcher governments have gone a long way towards puncturing claims about the power of the unions . |
| 9 | Murray confirmed only that the deal had been agreed and that it would go a long way towards cutting Rangers ' overdraft of £9.5 million . |
| 10 | If applied on an institutional scale it could abolish the deficit of cadaveric transplants and could go a long way towards solving the moral problem that continues to exercise me and my colleagues . ’ |
| 11 | Indeed the latest text has gone a long way towards meeting the UK 's objections . ’ |
| 12 | But the headlining act — a quartet splicing the former Miles Davis guitarist John Scofield with the British saxophonist Andy Sheppard — struck fireworks that went a long way towards helping the audience breathe out after some dodgy moments during the presentations . |
| 13 | The ministerial position went a long way towards meeting the US criteria , but the British side had worries as well . |
| 14 | Modern petrological studies have gone a long way towards answering this question : polished hard-rock axes seem to have been made from stone obtained from a limited number of outcrops . |
| 15 | If we can achieve this , we have gone a long way towards solving the axe typology problem since groups of similarly shaped axes would appear as distinct clusters on the page and could be easily identified by eye . |
| 16 | This decision goes a long way towards demonstrating the untenability of the marital-rape exemption in modern times . |
| 17 | By the middle of the fourth century , Christianity had gone a long way towards assimilating the dominant culture of pagan Romans . |
| 18 | This last reform , which would simultaneously go a long way towards solving the unemployment problem and the housing problem , would also transform the social scene . |
| 19 | The feminine touch in the car showroom could go a long way towards clinching a deal , the Retail Motor Industry Federation said yesterday . |
| 20 | The interpretation of ‘ mind ’ as information processing with a self-monitoring facility called consciousness goes a long way towards resolving the problem of body — mind interaction which Popper and Eccles ( 1978 ) have recently revived . |
| 21 | The mayor also outlined plans which , if implemented , would have gone a long way towards mopping up the demand for houses in Derry . |
| 22 | The new , improved materials available have gone a long way towards extending the lifespan of today 's flat roof . |
| 23 | It seems to me that this difference in the structure of the schedules goes a long way towards explaining in industrial terms the relative stasis of British television subgenres like sitcom , crime series and soap opera , and the drive towards innovation found in the corresponding genres on US television . |
| 24 | Perhaps it will make dealing with such a situation a little easier if we realise that there really is a reason for it and that the way in which we handle it may well go a long way towards aiding our spiritual development . |
| 25 | These facts go a long way towards explaining why the bream is not generally recognised as a hard-fighting fish . |
| 26 | Logging GNP per capita goes a long way towards holding the midspreads constant by making them similar in size . |
| 27 | Such a use of sub-committees goes a long way towards achieving an ‘ open ’ management process . |
| 28 | These may seem trivial examples , but they go a long way towards helping teachers assess the success of different parts of the school in which they work and , ultimately , that of the whole institution . |
| 29 | In doing so it can go a long way towards lifting the depression which has afflicted too many teachers in recent years . |
| 30 | That could go a long way towards avoiding car payments . |