Example sentences of "[adj] to go [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the long run it may be possible to go further than this , to appropriate in the form of tax revenue a large part of the income which workers would otherwise have put into long-term savings schemes , and to expand commensurately the socialised provision for retired workers ( state pensions plus appropriate social amenities ) . |
| 2 | In the library context it should be possible to go further than the catalogue to establish relevance , i.e. , to go beyond the question put to the catalogue and include the user 's relevance judgements after examining the actual documents on the shelves . |
| 3 | To herself she had to admit that she would have been willing to go further than talk . |
| 4 | As has consistently been the case , Paisley and other DUP politicians were prepared to go further than the Official Unionists and the provincial leadership of the Orange Order . |
| 5 | Pollitt , at the Seventh World Congress of the Comintern , was prepared to go further than the ILP . |
| 6 | Hunched in a remote and subordinate cranny of government — devising a rent bill at the Ministry of Housing and Local Government , as a matter of fact — I was not disposed to go overboard when our armed forces were launched into the attack in November ; but what on earth was intended to come out of it and how an occupation found untenable could be tenably restored and sustained by force was beyond the comprehension of this unmoved spectator . |
| 7 | Clusters and nerves well again I always felt that nerves were supposed to go away when you got good at things , now I 'm pleased to discover that is n't true . |
| 8 | But Kinnock is a fighter ; he is no more likely to go willingly than Mrs Thatcher was . |
| 9 | You form the impression that the two of them do not actively encourage function bookings which are likely to go on until after 23.00 hours . |
| 10 | But when you think if you go to your corner shop and you , you do n't want a lot it 's cheaper to go there than to get in a car |
| 11 | There 's the often quoted comparison with our compatriots overseas that it 's cheaper to go overseas than stay at home , but I think , you know , with the range of accommodation , with the range of holidays now available in this country , I think the industry itself is competing very well and that the more and more people who find that they have n't yet discovered Britain will do so this year . |
| 12 | What would it feel like to go further than just kissing ? she wondered hazily . |
| 13 | It 's great to go slow where you 've got houses , children and all the other things , but I , Avenue , which is on er plan five , is one of the radial roads that goes through the centre of erm out in the direction and to put a thirty mile an hour speed limit on this I think is totally unrealistic . |
| 14 | Well you always thought about going to the Beefeater a bu really I suppose it might be better to go today than tomorrow . |
| 15 | It is probably better to go further than this , for the husband may die and the wife ( by virtue of Trustee Act 1925 , s36 ) could appoint a new trustee malleable to her wishes and to the detriment of the husband 's estate . |
| 16 | It is better to go in when they are losing money than when they are making money ; then one has more muscle ’ . |
| 17 | The precautions you take to make you feel safer often result in you restricting your life , following a self-imposed curfew , unable to go out unless you can be sure you can drive — or get a lift — back . |
| 18 | Today 's training exercise was only able to go ahead because of an emergency packing operation which has been set up at the base . |
| 19 | We 're not going to be able to go on as we are . |
| 20 | They wo n't be able to go on if we do n't rest . " |
| 21 | Harbury tried to grab the apparent opportunity but Wickham neatly turned the conversation so that Shildon was able to go on where he had left off . |
| 22 | ‘ If for any reason the runners were able to go faster than us in the marathon , I 'm sure they would organise it differently for them . ’ |
| 23 | So I always told her she would be able to go there when she was older . |
| 24 | Even if the second pre-condition is met , Albert Reynolds is unlikely to go further than to promise that a referendum would be held , if everything else was agreed . |
| 25 | Well , there I was in London , penniless ; like the man in the gospel , I was too proud to go home so I begged and fought with the rest of the dispossessed in the dirty alleyways and streets of Whitechapel , Alsatia , and even across London Bridge amongst the stews of Southwark . |
| 26 | At least she would n't have far to go home if the evening turned into an unmitigated disaster , with him weeping drunken tears and slobbering all over her shoes while he told her the sad story of his life . |
| 27 | But now I 've made two trips there and I 'm anxious to go back because I feel I 'm getting tapped in a little better , I 'm getting emotionally connected . |
| 28 | While he says it would be a hundred per cent certain to go up if an atom bomb exploded alongside it , we must n't over-estimate the effects of a more remote explosive shock , even at a distance of a few miles . |
| 29 | I was not keen to go yet because I still had a vivid memory of that hand . |
| 30 | ‘ I was a bit young to go there because I found it difficult to get to know people , ’ he says . |