Example sentences of "[noun] [am/are] go [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the cities , even traditionally non-commercial fuels are going on the market . |
| 2 | Judging from early games in this country , and especially by the dreadful Leicester v England match , our referees are going by the book and will blow rucks and mauls dead far more quickly . |
| 3 | Thousands of plates from the DVLA at Swansea are going under the hammer . |
| 4 | With Amdahl Corp faced with an uphill struggle to adjust its business so that it can thrive in a post-mainframe world , and all its other major investments — things like the former Poqet Computer Corp and HAL Computers Inc still in the development stage and demanding more capital , while its own core business is a victim of the mainframe malaise , Fujitsu Ltd 's 80% of ICL Plc begins to look the company 's most valuable asset , making it increasingly likely that the company will in due course want to float a lot more than the 25% it originally suggested on the London International Stock Exchange : Fujitsu 's biggest problem is the one now facing all big Japanese companies — that the days of cheap capital at home are gone with the bubble economy , probably forever , and many Japanese companies issued convertibles in the 1980s that are coming up to maturity ; with prices on the Tokyo exchange still bombed out , few holders are going to want to convert into shares , which means that issuers will have to raise expensive new capital on the international markets to redeem them . |
| 5 | Now his MC and other wartime awards are to go under the hammer as receivers sell his belongings to pay creditors . |
| 6 | Nearly one in three Rolls-Royce car-workers are going in the job cuts at its Crewe factory . |
| 7 | The swords are going in the bin . |
| 8 | For a start , the yachts are going round the world in the opposite direction , against the prevailing winds and currents , heading first for Rio de Janeiro , then Hobart and finally Mauritius , before returning to Southampton in April or May 1993 . |
| 9 | Bath are going for the championship … |
| 10 | I 'm very happy with how things are going at the moment . ’ |
| 11 | It 's reassuring , especially the way things are going at the moment . |
| 12 | Yet he has an instinct that this synthetic world is more in tune with the way things are going in the hierarchy of ideas , than the Parisian world of half-wild ducks cooked in their own jus and ideas located on different niveaux . |
| 13 | People are going to the match because it 's Cornwall 's day out . ’ |
| 14 | Norman Willis , TUC general secretary , said : ‘ At a time when unemployment rates are going through the roof , the last thing the Employment Secretary should be spending her time doing is fiddling about with holiday dates . ’ |
| 15 | But that 's when share prices are going through the roof and insurance companies are coining it in . |
| 16 | In our society , children often reach adolescence at just the time that their mothers are going through the menopause . |
| 17 | ‘ 'You 're to go at the beginning of January , but I shall have to wait till all this house business is finished . |
| 18 | Fifteen apprentices are going through the scheme at the moment , ranging in age from 22 to 38 . |
| 19 | Coats and shoebags are to go in the cloakroom . |
| 20 | To overcome the problem of missing and lost keys and keys not being handed back by the guest on departure and to combat the problem of security by which unauthorised persons obtain keys to rooms , many hotels are going to the expense of installing keyless locks on their rooms . |
| 21 | DIAMONDS , gems and jewellery recovered from one of the biggest robberies in history are to go under the hammer . |
| 22 | But I think this is , I think that I know it w it was the arguments that went on when we were on about going dividend stamps was very interesting , I quite enjoyed them and you can you know , definitely what came out was that erm it was a bad thing because erm people , er maybe it 's good if these stamps are going to the Co-op er going to the hospitals I 'm all for it , but I 'm afraid mine I keep them to for myself and erm er I get so few these days now my Co-op 's gone but erm you know usually I go and get a bag of er , box of teabags with mine , you know and er so I use my stamps now erm . |
| 23 | The operating systems are going to the ball . |
| 24 | Asked to explain why his chain should be doing so well when so many others are going to the wall , Mr Myers points to stringent management . |
| 25 | ‘ The horses are going to the knacker 's on Monday if we do n't , ’ she said . |
| 26 | Author Ian Fleming 's original unpublished notes on his most famous creation are to go under the hammer at London auctioneers Sotheby 's on December 15 . |
| 27 | Author Ian Fleming 's original unpublished notes on his most famous creation are to go under the hammer at London auctioneers Sotheby 's on December 15 . |
| 28 | This time a team from Gloucestershire are going to the top of the world . |
| 29 | Sixty jobs are to go at the Dowty Seals factory at Ashchurch near Tewkesbury in Gloucestershire . |
| 30 | Six hundred and twenty mining jobs are to go at the Bickershaw colliery in Lancashire and up to a hundred jobs will disappear at Granada Television , the makers of ’ Coronation Street ’ . |