Example sentences of "[noun] has [vb pp] [adj] way " in BNC.
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| 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 | Ethnomethodology has developed various ways of demonstrating these unwritten rules of social life , and of showing how they are continuously achieved by social actors . |
| 4 | London 's Docklands over the centuries has seen many ways of life come and go , but one has remained ; that of pests . |
| 5 | Intensive research has identified several ways in which interferon-treated cells can interfere with the viral life-cycle , particularly by preventing the genetic information stored in the viral genes from being converted into viral proteins ( New Scientist , 10 March 1983 , p 642 ) . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . ’ |
| 8 | While English law has gone some way to providing a reasons requirement there are still significant gaps . |
| 9 | Management has recognised this and over recent decades has tried various ways to improve this front line contact . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Privatization has achieved better ways of running the transport industries and there is today no serious movement in any of them to return to state control . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | France has gone some way towards the Canadian pattern . |
| 17 | ‘ Pool has suggested another way , ’ she said . |
| 18 | and Mr Potter has gone some way to acknowledging that in saying that the circumstances may change . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | This has been because social psychology has had few ways of handling the macro-level political , economic and social change which has been of such great interest to sociologists . |
| 21 | The preceding section has suggested some ways in which these dimensions align themselves in Japan . |
| 22 | 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 . |