Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] some way " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | However , another group working in the US believes it has gone some way to understanding the link between high pressures and the superconducting state . |
| 9 | Channel 4 has gone some way to remedying this situation . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | France has gone some way towards the Canadian pattern . |
| 13 | While English law has gone some way to providing a reasons requirement there are still significant gaps . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | and Mr Potter has gone some way to acknowledging that in saying that the circumstances may change . |
| 17 | Tolby must have had some way of preventing Hubert from talking . |
| 18 | But if I know our Emily , she 'll have found some way of getting out of City Europe . |
| 19 | I knew I should have found some way to follow that pair up to the pond . |
| 20 | Whilst an extension of the deconcentration of central government might have gone some way towards abating these feelings , it was not considered by the majority to be a sufficient remedy . |
| 21 | In Frome , as elsewhere , a large proportion of the population lacked the general state of good health which would have gone some way towards combating these killer diseases . |
| 22 | If we can answer this question , we shall have gone some way to understanding the different claims made in the Conservative and Labour manifestos . |
| 23 | The initial committee appointed to consider the terms on which to offer William and Mary the Crown , which contained a Whig majority of twenty-eight to twelve , drew up a list of twenty-eight Heads of Grievances which , if all remedied , would have gone some way to satisfying the radicals ' desires . |
| 24 | Those nearest to such a person will have established some way of communicating directly . |
| 25 | In masochism the energy is directed on to the ego , not an object , where the ego is itself libidinized as in narcissism. rn this way Freud had moved some way to producing a new synthesis of the three dichotomies : ego instincts , and sexual instincts ; ego and object choices within one set of instincts only , the sexual instincts ; and , finally , the life instincts ( sexual ) and the death instincts . |
| 26 | I think as long as you 've got some way of dealing with things you can live with them . |
| 27 | She had wanted some way of freeing herself from Gareth Davis and his demands and now , with no effort on her part , she was free of him for ever . |
| 28 | Last night , Mr Robinson said Mr Brooke 's speech had gone some way to getting dialogue ‘ back on the rails . ’ |
| 29 | He believed , moreover , that although man 's reason had gone some way in ‘ its great and proper business of morality ’ , the progress had been slow . |
| 30 | When they had gone some way from here , the Garda received a radio message , stopped and turned around . |