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

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 However , another group working in the US believes it has gone some way to understanding the link between high pressures and the superconducting state .
9 Channel 4 has gone some way to remedying this situation .
10 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 .
11 France , however , has gone some way to showing that a judicious space programme — based on modest goals and less than the highest technology of the era — need not be excessively costly .
12 France has gone some way towards the Canadian pattern .
13 While English law has gone some way to providing a reasons requirement there are still significant gaps .
14 Our disposal programme , which has raised approximately £1 billion to date , together with reductions in capital and operating expenditure , has gone some way to improving gearing and strengthening our balance sheet .
15 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 .
16 and Mr Potter has gone some way to acknowledging that in saying that the circumstances may change .
17 The preceding section has suggested some ways in which these dimensions align themselves in Japan .
18 The car washing and laundry activities have had to move some way up the bank .
19 It was a great relief that they would no longer have to scheme some way of getting Anna out , at the right moment , while he himself was touring somewhere .
20 I 'd have to find some way of talking to her alone .
21 I knew she 'd have to find some way of getting over him but I did n't expect anything as drastic as this . ’
22 Some are virtuous , i.e. we can live with them and do not have to find some way to stop them .
23 She would have to find some way of raising the money herself .
24 She would just have to find some way of avoiding physical contact until Dana returned from her trip to Hadrian 's Wall .
25 Then we shall have to find some way to make your next performance more convincing , wo n't we ? ’
26 But she 'd have to find some way of squaring the situation .
27 If he was already on his way out , she would simply have to find some way of stopping him , though right at this moment she did n't have a clue just what that would be .
28 She 'd have to find some way to forcefully evict him from her thoughts , and the only way to do that was to fill her mind with something completely different — like the party she was planning .
29 Tolby must have had some way of preventing Hubert from talking .
30 But if I know our Emily , she 'll have found some way of getting out of City Europe .
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