Example sentences of "way to [v-ing] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sterling 's suspension from the Exchange Rate Mechanism restored freedom of manoeuvre to the Chancellor , who then celebrated this by going some way to dismantling the interest rates whose exaggerated level was needed to keep sterling in touch with the DM within the ERM . |
| 2 | Certainly if the school can come to terms with the planning of time , it is likely to be well on the way to implementing the programme . |
| 3 | the philosophy and objectives of the 1981 Education Act , which went some way to implementing the Warnock recommendations , are not much in evidence in the latest legislation . |
| 4 | BASS , the UK 's biggest brewer and pub owner , are now well on their way to meeting the November 1992 deadline for disposing or freeing half their pubs over the 2,000 limit . |
| 5 | Grants , trust money and corporate giving will go to some way to meeting the bill but support from individuals will play a very important part . |
| 6 | The Boards ' lines of defence against this — replacement costs were hypothetical and difficult to estimate , tax complications might follow — read like a weary defence of the status quo , but the Ministry did in the end accept that their creation of special ad hoc depreciation reserves did go some way to meeting the point . |
| 7 | A large microcomputer system with an extensive range of hardware devices and large block of extra machine-code routines is very flexible and powerful , and would go a long way to meeting the requirements of the program designer , but in realistic terms such a system would be too expensive for most schools at present . |
| 8 | I am aware that these proposals only go part way to meeting the objections raised at the meeting . |
| 9 | When my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister spoke in June last year , the UNHCR was well on the way to meeting the humanitarian needs of the Kurdish people . |
| 10 | Although we accept the Government 's recent concessions go some way to meeting the concerns expressed at second reading , we believe an additional amendment is crucial . |
| 11 | It now seemed that Watt was well on the way to developing the engine for the commercial market . |
| 12 | The Worcestershire man had barely 40 overs under his belt in six Tests before this one , but here he was wheeling away in a marathon spell stretching into the fourth day , and with Tufnell on the way to completing the most overs ever bowled by one man in a first-class innings in New Zealand , the Kiwi machine was forced to change down a gear or two . |
| 13 | Today with over one hundred units delivered world-wide ( now powered by Garrett AiResearch 732-1 engines ) it is well on the way to emulating the success of the Falcon 20 . |
| 14 | Germany 's First Air Force , by Peter Kiduff , goes some way to redressing the balance with the story of the German Air Force during World War One . |
| 15 | On the one hand , setting and enforcing more adequate levels of child support goes some way to redressing the balance of the current situation where the costs of supporting children fall almost entirely on the mother . |
| 16 | ‘ The Comp ’ goes some way to redressing the balance . |
| 17 | It is hoped that this chapter goes some way to redressing the balance : relative prices do matter in the General Theory , though they do not adjust in the manner suggested by the classical writers and by their monetarist/new classical descendants . |
| 18 | Little was known about the products of many of these areas , and much research still needs to be done but Collecting Lustreware goes a long way to redressing the balance . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Smith observed : ‘ I think tomorrow will go a long way to clarifying the picture . |
| 21 | We also managed to find a couple of bottles of Chilean Chardonnay ( trust me , it 's great ) in a very posh wine merchant 's where the staff were half way to calling the cops as we walked in . |
| 22 | So we are well on the way to achieving the recruitment targets that have been set with a view to making the decision as effective as possible . |
| 23 | But through sensitive playing and a warm humorous script by Bennett , the play went some way to portraying the normality of life with a daughter who is ‘ not quite right ’ . |
| 24 | If you could see your way to writing the first chapters of an autobiography I would be honoured to read it and give you my thoughts on the subject . |
| 25 | It would have been impossible to predict the way events developed after October 1917 , and the policy of the Party seemed on numerous grounds to be the most sensible , the only one which went some way to reconciling the need for large economic units ( which , rightly or wrongly , was assumed to be decisive for material progress ) and for democracy , understood as the right of peoples to choose their own State . |
| 26 | Together with thick carpet and underfelt , it should go a long way to pleasing the occupants of the flat below . |
| 27 | The whole anthem affair has been dealt with and the minute 's silence at Newlands went some way to repairing the damage of Ellis Park . |
| 28 | Does my right hon. Friend envisage the creation of a Territorial Army element in the Household Division , which would go some way to alleviating the greatly increased overstretch that the 40 per cent . |
| 29 | The price cut will go a little way to alleviating the burden of VAT on bills , due to be introduced next April , a move described by Manweb chairman Bryan Weston as disappointing . |
| 30 | Scorton has entered both the Britain in Bloom and the Best Kept Village competitions and the Parish Council would be grateful if you could see your way to getting the verges trimmed as soon as possible . |