Example sentences of "[noun] as go " in BNC.
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| 1 | It hopes to sell some of the offices as going concerns . |
| 2 | These short disyllabic realizations of /a , Ε , α/; converge on a vowel near [ a ] ( as in such monosyllables as went , pot ) . |
| 3 | If as much effort had been devoted to providing good levels of insulation as went into other recent advances in building practice , we would all now be living in highly energy-efficient homes , and paying much smaller heating bills . |
| 4 | She described her husband as going quite white and in tears . |
| 5 | They had a tiny room on the ground floor lit by a small leaded window and heated by an open fire from which as much smoke seemed to blow into the room as went up the chimney . |
| 6 | This is almost as much fun as going diving and is the ability to interface the Solution with a desk top computer and record , organise and recall all normal logbook information and also any dive profiles from the Solution 's internal memory . |
| 7 | However , once the technique has been mastered , and provided lots of space is left , making a set of notes with powerful punch and instant accessibility gives as much sense of achievement as going round the golf course under par or making a successful rugby try against strong opposition . |
| 8 | I tried to ring her the other day as going to a seminar at my solicitors office nearby and had hoped to walk up plus dog , leave Bella for duration of seminar and pick her up again = kill exercise bird with seminar stone as it were . |
| 9 | The strain of all this told , especially when he did such things as going on a submarine foray to the Bay of Biscay while the French coast was still in German hands . |
| 10 | I feel would never wish to give up or reject feminism , which I see as an insistence on putting women first , an insistence on women 's autonomy and I think that the debates with National Liberation struggles , the debate in the Irish National Liberation struggle has seen the two things as going hand in hand . |
| 11 | He did not say whether they had been involved in any of the English advice or whether they were advising on the valuations as going concerns as bus stations or advising on the development values . |
| 12 | Breathe slowly from the stomach not the chest — breathing in to a count of four slowly and out to a count of four slowly , or visualize your breathing-in as going up one side of a hill , experiencing the plateau at the top and then breathing-out as though coming down the other side . |
| 13 | The examples given in Table 6.1 refer to the kind of experience well within the capacity potentially of everyone , and may be so much accepted as part of everyday life as to go unnoticed . |
| 14 | ‘ My lord , I am not such an idiot as to go fleeing into that downpour . |
| 15 | Some scholars , however , see Matthew 's interest in the Church as going beyond the mere mention of the word . |
| 16 | Scotland could n't manage more than a tweak of the giants ' noses , but showed that there 's still such a thing as going down with honour . |
| 17 | Michelle describes Angela as going from ’ broad and light ’ to ’ serious and sad ’ among the comic action . |
| 18 | MGM , which made such classics as Gone With the Wind and The Wizard Of Oz , has been in turmoil ever since being bought by controversial Italian financier Giancarlo Parretti last year . |
| 19 | Dr Foley had always seen his son Aengus as going into medical research when the time came . |
| 20 | To talk of human history as going through stages implies that there is an unavoidable link-up between technological systems , political systems , economic systems , kinship systems , etc . |
| 21 | Such social activities as going to adult education classes , taking trips out in their car , going to church , visiting friends and being visited , now happen on a more regular basis . |
| 22 | Environmentalists hailed the decision as going a long way towards meeting the demands of campaigns in favour of preserving Antarctica . |
| 23 | He sees Papert as going beyond Piaget . |
| 24 | However , just as at a certain place on the earth 's surface we can still call ‘ down' ’ the direction towards the centre of the earth , so a living organism that finds itself in such a world at a certain period of time can define the ‘ direction ’ of time as going from the less probable state to the more probable ( the former will be the ‘ Past' ’ and the latter the ‘ Future' ’ ) and by virtue of the definition he will find that his own small region , isolated from the rest of the universe , is ‘ initially' ’ always in an improbable state . |
| 25 | Charity schools were inexpensive and could be readily supplied in the boom years , while even such an early champion of the bourgeoisie as Defoe could approve their attack on sloth and indiscipline as going to the heart of the problem of the labouring poor . |
| 26 | Getting out did n't make such an indelible impression as going in . |