Example sentences of "[noun] go [adv prt] [adj] of [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Discussion of the effects of changes in the stock of money goes back hundreds of years . |
2 | The political and social infrastructure for the perpetration of overtly racist acts goes back hundreds of years of course ; but events immediately preceding the sixties laid the foundations for those excesses by the way ‘ race ’ became politicised . |
3 | THE political and religious crisis gripping India and Pakistan goes back hundreds of years . |
4 | This company was founded in 1981 by William Jackson and John Turner in Kidderminster , a town in the UK with a tradition of carpet-making going back hundreds of years . |
5 | Yet its origin goes back hundreds of years , to the days when the women camp followers of the mighty Persian armies slept in their scarlet silk tents . |
6 | What you must never forget is that I am not and never have been an ethnic of any description , and that I have never found any evidence that justifies any cretinous claim by you , or by any of your co-morons in the sewers of lofty racist Neanderthal , that Eurocentrism warrants any positive attention from those like myself who inherit — and consciously — a civilised tradition and philosophy going back millions of years . |
7 | This meant that an older social critique , whose pedigree went back hundreds of years , was expanded to take account of juvenile employment in such a manner as to make the critique more subtle , at least in the sense that some reformers began to suggest that the combination of juvenile psychology , conditions of labour and industrial training was influential far beyond the workplace and on a scale previously unrecognized . |
8 | And I discover too that he is the culmination of centuries of God 's revelation recorded in documents going back hundreds of years before his time . |