Example sentences of "[noun] [vb base] go [adv] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He indicated that discussion with the privately-run homes have gone very well and warned that there is a danger that homes in the voluntary sector may be left behind in negotiations . |
| 2 | Some translators of the Bible have gone so far as to postpone the main verb until the divine fiat : And God said , Let there be light . |
| 3 | However , the difficult condition which requires the most consideration because it is not that unlikely is one in which the operator is faced with a situation where various things have gone wrong naturally or by inadvertent human interference in the plant or instrumentation . |
| 4 | But things have gone so well that by June 1993 he hopes to launch a further 20 growers . |
| 5 | Some French intellectuals have gone even further and demanded that the whole thing be burned to the ground . |
| 6 | Indeed , some people have gone so far as to elevate these restrictions on the initial conditions and the parameters to the status of a principle , the anthropic principle , which can be paraphrased as , ‘ Things are as they are because we are . |
| 7 | It had been said in the past that there was a convention that the House of Lords would not pass amendments calculated to alter the kernel of a bill approved by the Commons , but in recent years amendments have gone much further than altering the fine details of the Bill . |
| 8 | Sales of OS/2 have gone more slowly than some at Microsoft had hoped . |
| 9 | Some literary historians have gone even further and have suggested that courtly love was much more than just a fashionable and pleasant way of passing time . |
| 10 | He said : ‘ Once one group of residents goes , the others want to go fairly quickly because they can see their homes are being wound down . ’ |
| 11 | Neo-Marxists have gone much further and tend to claim that , in advanced capitalist societies , the state and its various bureaucracies have distinctive levels of relative autonomy from the different fractions of the bourgeoisie and , indeed , on occasion state functionaries can successfully play off one section of the bourgeoisie ( as well as competing classes ) against others , domestically or transnationally , in their own interests . |
| 12 | ‘ Our preparations have gone so well that none of us can wait to get there and begin in earnest . |