Example sentences of "it [vb -s] some way " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sir Kenneth Newman — then commandant — suggests that the book 's claim to attention is that its contents are contributed by insiders ; while in their introduction , the authors claim it goes some way to challenging Holdaway 's claim ( 1979 ) that ‘ research from the Police Staff College has not resulted in a major project on the police ’ . |
| 2 | If this is correct , it goes some way towards dealing with cases of ‘ cumulative provocation ’ , and towards a broader defence of emotional pressure . |
| 3 | Surely a forlorn ambition , but it goes some way to explain , what would otherwise be so difficult to understand , why eminent members of the nascent |
| 4 | Most of the old great Elf towns date from this period and it goes some way towards accounting for their remoteness . |
| 5 | All this formed a background to the first century of crusading ; and it goes some way to explaining the more secular aspects of the magnetism which drew French knights to take up the cross in their thousands . |
| 6 | It probably means that the average family is a much more relaxed affair than the traditional Scottish household used to be , but it goes some way towards explaining the numbers of children at risk in our society from adults outside the home , as well as from their own undisciplined emotions . |
| 7 | Although our productivity compares well with coal industries in Europe , it has some way to go before it is at the level of some of the coal industries outside Europe . |
| 8 | support among GPs , so it has some way to go in winning the argument . |
| 9 | Perhaps they will one day , but at the moment it seems some way off . |