Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] some way " in BNC.
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| 1 | And — to cap it all — there is no source of drinking water on the island — unless you are clever enough to find some way of catching and storing rain when it falls , which it does almost every day . |
| 2 | ‘ Well , you 'd better find some way of getting over it , my girl — you wo n't be managing the club forever . ’ |
| 3 | But I guess they just got some way . |
| 4 | We should note that we have already moved some way from the Greek conception of democracy as government by the people themselves . |
| 5 | To be fair to the youth education committee , they had already gone some way in answering the questions raised . |
| 6 | Coe tells me that he was attracted to writing some kind of thriller because it would help him tighten up his plotting , but he still has some way to go ; the book 's resolution is simply too arbitrary and fanatical . |
| 7 | BT believes it still has some way to go before it can match the performance of American telecommunications companies and is also anxious to stay ahead of European public sector rivals . |
| 8 | The saga still has some way to run . |
| 9 | But the Scottish Rooflessness Initiative still has some way to go , especially in preventing young Scots becoming homeless and at risk in London , he told a seminar in Edinburgh . |
| 10 | Nevertheless , the Greek system still has some way to travel before it will be the sort of political machine a post-cold-war democracy requires . |
| 11 | For ‘ high risk ’ fetuses , waveform analysis of the electrocardiogram shows promise ; oximetry still has some way to go . |
| 12 | However , the academic literature still has some way to go . |
| 13 | He still has some way to go to earn a place in the golfing record books . |
| 14 | But , we 've still got some way to go towards collecting together all of the other things around the place , so that this extra committee can have a look at it and decide whether these forms are relevant , necessary , should be controlled or not . |
| 15 | Notwithstanding this promise , the use of road pricing to change travel habits still seems some way off . |
| 16 | From where will recovery in housing come , with interest rates at their present level , with house prices still having some way to fall and with a huge overhang of unsold houses ? |
| 17 | But the conventions surrounding the drama itself usually go some way to counter this kind of misapprehension even in mediaeval times . |
| 18 | although in fact it still had some way to run ; the third were presents given when the case really was over . |
| 19 | There still remains some way to go in convincing the returnees that a good turnout of big houses is ultimately better for all concerned . |
| 20 | Woodworking businesses still have some way to go before they can show that they are controlling the hardwood dust emissions from machinery . |
| 21 | We still have some way to go but if this magnificent generosity continues we can be sure that the future of the Cathedral is in the safe hands of the people of the Diocese . |
| 22 | And although England showed signs of improvement against Norway last month , following their debacle in the European Championship finals in Sweden during the summer , they still have some way to go to ensure a comfortable path to the United States . |
| 23 | ‘ We are highly regarded in Japan for our technical quality and scientific approach , but we still have some way to go . ’ |
| 24 | But we still have some way to go . |
| 25 | Now it 's obviously going to vary from establishment to establishment , but do you feel that we perhaps still have some way to go ? |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | The theory also goes some way towards answering the question of why people speak indirectly . |
| 28 | The model also goes some way to clarify the problem of the ‘ humanities ’ . |
| 29 | The autobiographical source of the novel also goes some way to explaining the method of presentation of Antoine 's character which at a personal level reflects a tension between a father and a son , and at a historical level reflects a tension between two different epochs . |
| 30 | An adjustment of this kind would serve to promote recovery , and it should also go some way to reassure international opinion . |