Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] some way " in BNC.

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1 The holder of that office must have some way of measuring whether such a huge and expensive change has been successful .
2 In order for them to find the blood vessels they must have some way of sniffing out nutrition , or fleeing from the products of metabolism .
3 Inevitably then a society must have some way of distributing these rewards differentially according to positions .
4 The program must have some way of establishing when a transput operation is complete , so that a further operation can be initiated or ( in the input case ) so that the input character can be processed .
5 Since we must have some way of linking each component to the next one in the structure , each component must contain a link or pointer that points to the next component in the structure .
6 If he did finally decide , after all , this was n't the job for him , that snide comment should go some way to ensure that Lorrimer stood no chance of succeeding him as Director of Hoggatt 's .
7 In supporting this report we will be setting a future agenda which should go some way to extending working , workers ' protection for our members .
8 The massive tax increases that lie ahead should go some way to reassure the financial markets that he is determined to redress a recessionary budget deficit now projected to run at £50 billion — £1 billion a week — in the current year .
9 These recommendations , if they can be fully implemented , should go some way to increasing the globalisation of securities markets by smoothing out problems in world clearance and settlement systems .
10 Willie Carson gets the leg up on Nafuth , who should go some way towards repaying the 500,000 dollars he cost owner Hamdan AlMaktoum by winning the EBF Dunkirk Maiden Stakes ( Division One ) .
11 If it is harmless , tasty , or soft-bodied , it must find some way of concealing itself .
12 Unfortunately it is not satisfactory merely to state this ; we must find some way of demonstrating it .
13 We must find some way of ‘ taking out ’ of our calculations that fraction of brain that can be attributed simply to body size , so that we can compare what is left over as the true ‘ braininess ’ of animals .
14 He says we must find some way of coming closer with the poor .
15 Membership of the EMS might go some way to remedy this , though a firm change in rhetoric ( ‘ no question of a realignment ’ ) would also be needed , and even then the ride would be far from smooth .
16 If roads were contained within a perspex tunnel and regularly patrolled by wildlife wardens , armed with splints and bandages and trained in every kind of veterinary first aid , I suppose it might go some way towards reducing this tragic toll .
17 Roseberry 's musical background might go some way to explaining her ‘ good ear ’ as well as her sympathy for musicians trying to catch the attention of A&R departments .
18 Probably not , but one ca n't help but speculate that the popularity of the showband in the Republic might go some way to explain the somewhat over-earnest search for ‘ authenticity ’ exhibited by U2 .
19 Although the developments outlined above might go some way towards encouraging parents and politicians to regard teachers as ‘ professional ’ much more will need to be done to repair the damage caused by the years of industrial dispute .
20 The full implementation of the substance and spirit of the Wagner Committee 's proposals might go some way towards giving people in institutions a greater say .
21 The third is the possibility , suggested also by Katib Celebi 's account of the office and supported to some degree by several contemporary documents , that there may have been a separate official muftilik of Edirne during the period : unfortunately , so shadowy is the evidence for its existence that as matters now stand it merely adds to the confusion , though could the facts about it be discovered , they might go some way toward resolving some of the problems in this vexed period .
22 Seeing him lying in a coffin with a stake through his heart might go some way to convince me .
23 However , the prompter investigation of obvious delays in the receipt of current serial parts might go some way towards improving the situation .
24 I ventured on one or two occasions to suggest that he might find some way of dispensing with her services .
25 ‘ We 'll find some way round it . ’
26 Sure you 'll find some way to warm yourself up !
27 Choking back his own fear of the desolate , grassless woodland , the before-dawn-returning owls that they could hear some way off and the extraordinary , rank animal smell that seemed to come from somewhere rather nearer , he began .
28 This train of thought could go some way to explaining why he is one of the top commercial directors in Britain , the man responsible for such successful ad campaigns as Guinness , Nurofen , British Airways and Gallo Wine , who , reputedly , can earn as much as 100,000 per commercial .
29 Attention has also been focused on the enhancement of soil nitrogen by the use of nitrogen-fixing bacteria which , if successful on a large scale , could go some way towards reducing environmental problems associated with the widespread use of nitrogen fertilisers ( section 6.3.1 ) .
30 Similarly the engineering of plants to produce their own crop-protection chemicals and nutrients , especially nitrogen , could go some way towards offsetting the often detrimental side-effects that artificially produced pesticides and fertilisers can exert on the environment ( sections 6.3 and 6.4 ) .
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