Example sentences of "[noun] has gone [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She is worried about me not eating , she is worried that my periods have stopped , that I look thinner and thinner , that my hair has gone dry and flat and rasps like paper when you touch it , but she also admires me . |
| 2 | In the next cell there is a wild-looking man who has been in prison for 8 years , and whose long , unkempt hair has gone white . |
| 3 | In the meantime , all his friends have been dispatched by serial killers , his dad , wrongly accused of the crimes , has killed himself and his mum has gone mad . |
| 4 | There the trail has gone cold for the moment . |
| 5 | ‘ The trail has gone cold . |
| 6 | But with ‘ Boss Drum ’ , Colin has gone one step further . |
| 7 | ‘ The real Beatrice has gone unsung , unloved , ’ says the blurb of a text not within these covers . |
| 8 | I define the basic situation as that of Iago destroying Othello , since I believe that much modern criticism of the play has gone wrong through beginning with Othello , or through not giving Iago his full measure of dominance . |
| 9 | Coming in a week , when an American judge told a rape victim she ‘ deserved what she got ’ for wearing a lace mini-skirt , and an English judge dropped a rape charge because his 16-year-old alleged victim had the mental age of seven , yesterday 's case has gone some way to restore their faith in the justice system . |
| 10 | They usually moan when the engine is low on oil or if the oil relief valve plunger spring has gone weak This is mounted on the top of the oil cooler between the union and the pipe Removing the spring and replacing with a new one or sometimes stretching the spring cures the groaning noise Whilst the groan sounds awful it is not actually detrimental to the operation of the vehicle |
| 11 | Perhaps the wheel has gone full circle and the middle class is now prepared to sell its birthright of privacy for the glittering prizes of acquisition . |
| 12 | The group have begun to connect four ideas : the wire wool has gone brown ; it has gone brown because of the rain ; it might be metal ; it might be rusty . |
| 13 | The experimental rig that will be built at the UKAEA 's Harwell base is , ironically , called ACHILLES , The NII agrees that recent work in Canada , West Germany and the United States has gone some way to showing the likely scale of the ballooning effect . |
| 14 | The oddity is that , just when the Soviet Union is discovering the merit of think-tanks engaged in ideological combat , the American scene has gone quiet . |
| 15 | The Cabinet were much less happy about this , as were Mountbatten 's own staff : however , General Slim , in command of 14th Army , showed more understanding , declaring ( 19 April ) : ‘ Help already given by BNA has gone long way towards expiation of political crimes . ’ |
| 16 | You set a blurb or something in proper Caledonia and then in Neue-Caledonia and it hits you that the Neue-Caledonia has gone all sort of thin and sharp and it 's the perfection of that shape there and the old one sort of boings about a bit and looks happy on the page . |
| 17 | Come on Amy be a good girl , be a good girl , whoops , this pen has gone wrong . |
| 18 | ONE important women 's issue has gone unnoticed in the past few weeks — the hemline question . |
| 19 | Whatever the rest of the season may hold for Aberdeen , they have on their side a ferocious competitor whose appetite for the fray has gone undiminished by time . |
| 20 | While English law has gone some way to providing a reasons requirement there are still significant gaps . |
| 21 | The taste of manna has gone sour on them . |
| 22 | Judging by the number of young Germans I encountered , wanderlust has gone haywire . |
| 23 | No Indian has gone global , no Indian company figures in the list of the world 's largest companies . |
| 24 | A player , who did not want to be identified , said : ‘ The whole place has gone crazy again . |
| 25 | But one local craftsman has gone one stage better and has made is own time piece . |
| 26 | Amid the hue and cry about carbon monoxide ( from coal gasification ) competing with oil as a source of petrochemical feedstocks , a bizarre feature of carbon monoxide chemistry has gone unnoticed in the scientific literature . |
| 27 | Although the Brady debt initiative has gone some way to potentially alleviating the debt problems of Chile , Colombia , Costa Rica , Mexico and Uruguay — those countries which have made serious adjustments — two of the biggest debtors , Brazil and Argentina , remain outside the ring . |
| 28 | The barbers ' shop has gone anonymous : |
| 29 | The room has gone dull . |
| 30 | Its official : Boris Yeltsin has gone object-oriented — he has ordered 2,500 NeXT workstations from Houston-based computer distributor Talus Corp . |