Example sentences of "[be] going [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Today , by contrast , we 're going to the other extreme .
2 Then we 're going to The Daily Telegraph 's party at the Savoy , followed by the BBC 's at Television Centre .
3 As we 're going to the 18th tee he says , ‘ Tip , you lost me the Championship . ’
4 tt and Thursday they 're going to the luxury end , they 're going to they 're going to see Paul and John
5 This guy last week she said you 're going to the Emerald Isles and he said where is the Emerald Isles ?
6 We 're going to the same destination . ’
7 They 're going round the same circle because that is the shape of the surface .
8 ‘ We 're going in the right direction but I do n't know where the piste has got to . ’
9 I do n't think the vicarage can be here — Dorothy , are you sure we 're going in the right direction ? ’
10 It is different from country to country , and I sometimes feel I mean I 'm not sure whether I 'm being unfair to our industry here , but it does seem to me that perhaps we have n't quite got our act together yet , we 're going in the right direction , but we have n't quite got there .
11 And then they take their jackets off and rush down the road at five thousand miles an hour and when you say to them , but you 're going in the wrong direction .
12 er no we 're going out the back door cos you 're going in the buggy
13 Because she 's not been going to the first aid room .
14 Two fundamental trends are at work : employee numbers are being gradually but drastically reduced — the Army alone is facing a 30 per cent by 1995 ; and all three services are coming to terms with their obligation to ‘ market test ’ support services with the result that a steady trickle of contracts has been going to the private sector since the early 80s .
15 Once you 've been going to the same shops a lot , y'know , just standing around and not buying anything , they get to know you .
16 And on this sir I , the way the discussion 's been going over the last couple of days , erm I would like to point you at the experience of the Nottinghamshire structure plan which I 've got direct personal experience , where there the panel was persuaded to commend locations that is n't right for structure plan but was a felt able to erm name a district or district council in whose area such a strategic site might be located .
17 Henry 's been going through the old ledgers but can not find any sign of a fiddle .
18 The cooperative movement had been going through the same process , and every week was being confronted by the same forces which had compelled trade unionists to consolidate their forces .
19 This last month , the Bavarians have been going through the painful experience of learning that , where an historic collection is concerned , it is the whole which is greater than the parts , and no saving of individual items can make up for the erosion of that whole .
20 That 's what 's been going around the common room and that 's what all this adds up to . ’
21 ‘ But now it 's becoming so expensive to make programmes we are being forced into making sure we are going along the right lines .
22 We do not have to provide sites for them , but we may have to very shortly because they themselves are going to the High Court to seek legal definition of their status and their due .
23 In actual fact , you see the plan , the two houses are going to the bottom end of the site , as far away to the adja adjacent to West Holm .
24 THE proceeds of a vintage vehicle rally being held in Toomebridge this Saturday are going to the Cardiac Unit of the Waveney Hospital , Ballymena .
25 Other would-be reformers are going to the opposite extreme , trying to concoct complicated ways for people in one district to subsidise those in another .
26 Compaq Computer Corp took the lead in the European portable personal computer market in the first quarter of 1993 according to Dataquest figures which give Compaq 22% by value and 17.5% by volume , and the manufacturer says that shipments in the period were up 89% on the first quarter of 1992 , growing four times the rate of the market , which expanded 21% — and those figures reveal the reason that Dell Computer Corp has stumbled badly in laptops and notebooks : buyers are going for the higher cost 80486-based machines that abound in Compaq 's line , while Dell 's product emphasises low-price 80386SX-based machines .
27 It is quite obvious that if all of you are going for the same niche in the marketplace , as is happening increasingly at present , then it will be a highly competitive situation where you will have to rely even more than usual on the superiority of your own skills or technology to bring you through .
28 I had already loosened the overcoat and was thinking as I looked at him , This very minute you are going on the longest journey a man ever takes and you have n't a frigging clue .
29 This is why people who are the same age as one another usually end up being friends because they are going through the same experiences simultaneously .
30 Meeting people who are going through the same experience will help you out of your depression .
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