Example sentences of "[noun] have [verb] [adj] way " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ It looks as if that car has come this way , ’ murmured Mary . |
| 3 | But because Linda has to stop half way through so that other stages can be filmed , the swiss roll dries out and cracks and she has to start all over again . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | If any stranger had come that way it was likely he would think he was following the black road to hell . |
| 6 | It led through still more lofty halls and winding corridors quite big enough for a dragon ( and dragons had come this way once , it seemed ; there was a room lull of rotting harness , dragon-sized , and another room containing plate and chain mail big enough for elephants ) . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Blunt ( 1989 ) has argued that all organizations have to find some way of achieving solutions to perennial problems . |
| 9 | Horses with names meaningful to English ears have passed this way : Lance Corporal , Red Indian , King Midas and now the stallion I had delivered , Pink Tank . |
| 10 | The Cabinet were much less happy about this , as were Mountbatten 's own staff : however , General Slim , in command of 14th Army , showed more understanding , declaring ( 19 April ) : ‘ Help already given by BNA has gone long way towards expiation of political crimes . ’ |
| 11 | While English law has gone some way to providing a reasons requirement there are still significant gaps . |
| 12 | The girl had come this way , she was sure . |
| 13 | So many refugees had passed that way already , and the steamers were dirty with no accommodation , so that again we slept side by side on the decks , and ate cold and rather horrible curry and rice on filthy plates . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Thus the plaintiff has to gamble either way . |
| 16 | But Mala had gone some way towards the opposite . |
| 17 | Stiff westerly winds made forward passage difficult , and the little boats had to tack this way and that within the narrow confines of the Strait 's exit , before the funnel began to widen and the open sea to present itself Magellan , now perfectly confident of his discovery , named the waters Estrecho do Todos los Santos — All Saints ' Strait . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | However , Jim Turle , the director of communications at Lang brothers , said that while Mr Lamont had gone some way to redressing the balance , he had by no means levelled the playing field . |
| 21 | If anyone except the Lorrimores had gone that way and come back again … well … we would have noticed . ’ |
| 22 | I wondered if Anna May Wong had passed this way . |
| 23 | Over 2,800 people have learnt this way over the last nine years , and judging from our fan mail , it creates the most rewarding holiday many people ever experience . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | France has gone some way towards the Canadian pattern . |
| 27 | By the spring of 1937 the Largo Caballero government had gone some way towards taming the process of social revolution and absorbing the militias into a regular army built around the Communists ' own Fifth Regiment . |
| 28 | Some of the most famous forensic scientists have started that way , he said . |
| 29 | ‘ Pool has suggested another way , ’ she said . |
| 30 | and Mr Potter has gone some way to acknowledging that in saying that the circumstances may change . |