Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] some way " in BNC.
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1 | They want to find some way in which having a brain like that improves gene survival . |
2 | Royston CAB has come some way towards solving the shelf space problem and the updating costs of holding more than one information system in a bureau . |
3 | and when you try t in the past when I tried to find some way of imposing discipline , there is no way because quite rightly , you 're not allowed to strike children , I never wanted to and I I hardly ever did at one school where there was a marvellous spirit of give and take I used to whip off my little black velvet slipper occasionally and whack some of the larger boys about the top of the thigh . |
4 | The Foreign Office has moved some way towards the French idea that the Western European Union ( WEU ) should become the Community 's forum for defence policy . |
5 | The Latin origins of the word refer to a course in the sense of race-course , but its current meaning in education has moved some way from that . |
6 | Starting from a point further back in the development of a theory of television than that from which Steve Neale begins for cinema , I want to suggest some ways of thinking about television genre , which , though they will not deal with particular programme categories , may open out some more complex ways of thinking about the aesthetics and poetics of television . |
7 | Coming in a week , when an American judge told a rape victim she ‘ deserved what she got ’ for wearing a lace mini-skirt , and an English judge dropped a rape charge because his 16-year-old alleged victim had the mental age of seven , yesterday 's case has gone some way to restore their faith in the justice system . |
8 | Although the Brady debt initiative has gone some way to potentially alleviating the debt problems of Chile , Colombia , Costa Rica , Mexico and Uruguay — those countries which have made serious adjustments — two of the biggest debtors , Brazil and Argentina , remain outside the ring . |
9 | In two recent articles in Screen , Steve Neale has gone some way towards extending the theorization of film genre along both general and particular lines . |
10 | The experimental rig that will be built at the UKAEA 's Harwell base is , ironically , called ACHILLES , The NII agrees that recent work in Canada , West Germany and the United States has gone some way to showing the likely scale of the ballooning effect . |
11 | However , another group working in the US believes it has gone some way to understanding the link between high pressures and the superconducting state . |
12 | Channel 4 has gone some way to remedying this situation . |
13 | This is precisely what the Union has gone some way to doing with its appointment of Glen Ball , Leighton Davies and John Perkins — respectively Neath manager , Maesteg coach and Pontypool coach — to act as Alan Davies 's go-between with the Welsh First Division clubs . |
14 | France , however , has gone some way to showing that a judicious space programme — based on modest goals and less than the highest technology of the era — need not be excessively costly . |
15 | France has gone some way towards the Canadian pattern . |
16 | While English law has gone some way to providing a reasons requirement there are still significant gaps . |
17 | Our disposal programme , which has raised approximately £1 billion to date , together with reductions in capital and operating expenditure , has gone some way to improving gearing and strengthening our balance sheet . |
18 | The Minister has gone some way towards allaying those fears by adding the proviso that any money from disposals should be used for the acquisition of further works . |
19 | and Mr Potter has gone some way to acknowledging that in saying that the circumstances may change . |
20 | There is a promise , and strength of quality in their songwriting , but The Prayer Boat appear to have some way to paddle before they find a grasp of the studio techniques they will need to coax real spirit from their music . |
21 | The preceding section has suggested some ways in which these dimensions align themselves in Japan . |
22 | 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 . |
23 | In our opinion this is the main gap in the orthodox account , and one we hope to go some way towards rectifying . |
24 | So what he 's got to do , erm if he rejects theism , if , on the basis of the diversity of human moral opinion , he has no faith in conscience or any form of moral intuition or any form of religious revelation , he 's got to find some way of arguing that there can be another rational basis for the criticism of moral and social systems . |
25 | Leland vowed to find some way of preventing such accidents . |
26 | And I would like to find some way of saying to people who do smoke , for instance , even on the top of buses where it 's now banned , you know , please do n't ! |
27 | Check the er , but you 've got to have some way , I believe , of measuring what 's going on . |
28 | The car washing and laundry activities have had to move some way up the bank . |
29 | In order to take account of this , we are going to need some way of making appeals to notions like ‘ shared presuppositions ’ , 'encyclopedic knowledge' , ‘ intention / purpose in uttering ’ and ‘ experience of previous similar text ’ which we have simply appealed to in an ad hoc way in our discussion so far . |
30 | It was a great relief that they would no longer have to scheme some way of getting Anna out , at the right moment , while he himself was touring somewhere . |