Example sentences of "gone [prep] [art] [adj] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Even if Clinton sends a health-care bill to Congress soon , the 1993 legislative session is too far gone for the many lengthy hearings that must take place so that all can have their say .
2 These were trivial afflictions compared with the burden which had disappeared , gone like the flapping black wings of carrion crow that had gorged enough on the dead flesh in the field .
3 I have been depressed about life in the Eighties , the way the economy has gone in the last twelve years .
4 We know very little about the world history of such ideas and their dialectical development , but we do know a good deal about how things have gone in the main literate civilizations over the past four thousand years .
5 Several managers have gone in the past ten days , including Ken Marr , marketing director , Charles Cottam , sales director and Bill Walker , marketing .
6 In a general election on April 20 the largest of the four main parties , the conservative pro-European Communities Independence Party ( IP ) , recovered the votes which had gone to a breakaway liberal Citizens ' Party ( CP ) in the April 1987 elections [ see pp. 35138-39 ] , giving it twice the representation of the next-largest party .
7 Yes I 'm not sure he 's gone on the double yellow lines , but still
8 Almost 300 have already gone over the last six years .
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