Example sentences of "[noun sg] have [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 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | If any stranger had come that way it was likely he would think he was following the black road to hell . |
| 6 | While English law has gone some way to providing a reasons requirement there are still significant gaps . |
| 7 | The girl had come this way , she was sure . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Stane Brovet , the Deputy Defence Minister , also warned the defence committee of the Federal Assembly on May 8 that the JNA had exhausted existing ways of trying to avert ethnic conflict , and he accused republic leaders and the media of creating a fratricidal atmosphere . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Once evolution had discovered successful ways of constructing organisms it would surely have used those same mechanisms again and again . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ‘ Pool has suggested another way , ’ she said . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Accidentally , obliquely , the squadron had found this way of striking back . |
| 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 . |
| 23 | Last night , Mr Robinson said Mr Brooke 's speech had gone some way to getting dialogue ‘ back on the rails . ’ |