Example sentences of "go [adj] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rangers nevertheless extended their lead over Aberdeen in the championship to ten points after a performance which had seemed destined to go unrewarded before the floodgates opened . |
| 2 | If patients are forced to go private because the local dentists opt out of the National Health Service , fees will triple . |
| 3 | If patients are forced to go private because the local dentists opt out of the National Health Service , fees will triple . |
| 4 | Such species , says Dawkins , were less likely to go extinct than smaller species , or were more likely to split off new , larger species like themselves . |
| 5 | On the other hand , the existence of wide discretion in the hands of judges and of the sovereign ( notably in the form of the pardon , which was extensively used ) meant that the guilty were as likely to go un-punished as were the innocent to be wrongly convicted and harshly dealt with . |
| 6 | Nor may we punish criminals to a greater extent than their crimes are felt to deserve ( for example in the hope of reforming them or deterring others ) : under the retributivist principle offenders have a right to go free once they have ‘ paid their debt to society ’ . |
| 7 | In the U K we seem to keep the equipment for twenty years and then complain if it goes wrong before we have to throw it away . |
| 8 | If something goes wrong while a user is accessing LIFESPAN , the current displayed page is temporarily replaced by a ‘ Transaction Failure ’ page which describes the fault and tells the user what action to take ( usually to log off or consult the LIFESPAN Manager ) . |
| 9 | And then everything goes wrong when he ca n't get me to go round there and pinch it . ’ |
| 10 | But they can be incredibly frustrating when something goes wrong because it 's so hard to get down to a nitty gritty level to sort out your problems . |
| 11 | Because they 're geared to Marks and Spencers , now there 's the advert for them they work with , with mass production , that 's where it goes wrong because we 've lost our individuality and so I go to the Italians in order to get the sort of yarns they offer me , now they 're the sort of yarns they offer me . |
| 12 | Things started to go wrong when Stuart became increasingly dissatisfied at work . |
| 13 | In piecing it together afterwards the thing began to go wrong when somebody asked the Butcher was he going to the ‘ do ’ in the Bank . |
| 14 | But things begin to go wrong when a dinosaur expert , played by Irish-born New Zealand actor Sam Neill , and his girlfriend , played by Laura Dern , arrive on the scene . |
| 15 | Things began to go wrong when he got into bad company . |
| 16 | Outsiders believe the charges may make it difficult for SCO to go public until they are resolved . |
| 17 | The president said he had decided to go public because criticism and disbelief from some countries and influential commentators had threatened the republic 's commercial nuclear programme . |
| 18 | Well you 'll have to go easy because you wo n't get any more until after the weekend ! |
| 19 | ‘ I read about them , it all goes dark when the sun covers the moon . |
| 20 | But the transition to democracy goes smoothest when military murderers are left unpunished — and unpardoned . |
| 21 | The debt goes deeper than money . |
| 22 | But the account of the meeting of Esau and Jacob goes deeper than the story of the purchase of Sarah 's burial plot . |
| 23 | Unashamedly Boy 's Own stuff , but it also goes deeper than that : ‘ I do n't want to die leaving a bunch of commercial show-reels as my legacy . |
| 24 | No mine goes deeper than about 3 km , because heat and air pressure become too great . |
| 25 | However , the level of conversation that really deepens and strengthens a relationship goes deeper than facts , ideas and opinions . |
| 26 | But his objection to preaching goes deeper than that . |
| 27 | Sometimes the words themselves mean little , but the emotional impact they convey goes deeper than the intellect . |
| 28 | But the malaise goes deeper than recession . |
| 29 | His remark goes deeper than that . |
| 30 | But the confusion ( let's settle for confusion ) goes deeper than that . |