Example sentences of "go [adj] because " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ There 's something in one of Kipling 's stories about a fellow who says he knows his soul 's gone rotten because he ca n't get drunk any more . |
| 32 | The corruption went unchecked because the system could not afford to acknowledge the extent of its own inefficiencies and failures . |
| 33 | The report alleged that warnings of a terrorist bombing went unheeded because they would have exposed the " drugs-for-hostages " deal . |
| 34 | A first attack of herpes in the adult , sexually active woman can often go undiagnosed because the primary lesions may be hidden away in the folds of the labia and close examination is needed to identify the ulceration . |
| 35 | The eldest one could n't have children , and quarrels with her husband , and has gone dotty because she ca n't have children , and wanders around in a very odd coat all the time . |
| 36 | The Governor of Kenya , Sir Evelyn Baring , was able to reassure the settlers by saying that ‘ Kenya ca n't go independent because it is a fortress colony . ' |
| 37 | That 's very funny , for example , I went Dutch because when we were small my brother run away . |
| 38 | In many organisations , power relationships often go unnoticed because instructions and orders are often couched in polite terms — ‘ Could you , please , do this or that for me ’ . |
| 39 | This had to mean , she felt , that she had gone mad because , as she saw it , there could be no other explanation . |
| 40 | ‘ Once I felt I should go mad because I could n't finish The Watsons . ’ |
| 41 | A respectable woman who has been ravished would hardly feel that she was vindicated by being told that her assailant must go unpunished because he believed , quite unreasonably , that she was consenting to sexual intercourse with him . |
| 42 | A MAN convicted of abandoning and ill-treating a prize greyhound will go unpunished because the papers for his case have been lost . |
| 43 | If this is allowed to go unnoticed because the glider stops spinning each time , it will encourage the habit of keeping the stick back . |
| 44 | Yet one of the major events in its railway history looks set to go unnoticed because of lack of council funding . |
| 45 | The plight of abused ( physically , emotionally and sexually ) children is a tragic and sensitive story which apparently often goes undetected because the mother , fearing reprisals or removal of the children , does not report abuse by her husband/partner or visiting relative ( who often is the perpetrator ) ; in many cases having suffered violence herself from him ( Jones , 1988 ) . |