Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] go [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed the latest text has gone a long way towards meeting the UK 's objections . ’ |
| 2 | However , official teaching has gone the other way , becoming increasingly restrictive in its emphasis on the grounds that the sharing of communion is acceptable only as an expression , and not as a cause of unity . |
| 3 | And in fact patient research has gone a long way towards resolving this knotty problem . |
| 4 | The tramp choked a little , as if the gum he accepted and popped into his mouth had gone the wrong way . |
| 5 | Other MIPS RISC-based systems in Olivetti 's stable such as the M700–10 look destined to go the same way . |
| 6 | And , indeed , as befits someone who 's hovering on the edge of idolatry , even her vocabulary has gone a little pagan ‘ Till dieted by thee I grow mature in knowledge as the Gods who all things know ’ , and then what I think is a brilliant touch on Milton 's part , the very next line says to us ‘ Though others envy what they can not give ’ . |
| 7 | The Community has gone a long way towards achieving that central purpose ; towards taming nationalism without suppressing patriotism ; towards sharing sovereignty without destroying nations ; and towards putting the magic of markets to work for society in a stable democratic setting . |
| 8 | And so , hours later , when the room has gone a dusky grey from winter twilight and the smoke of our cigarettes , a most blank and bovine nurse accompanies Jackie 's husband into the room , and he indeed bears an armful of Sainsbury 's . |
| 9 | But in this case , the evidence seemed to go the other way , and was the express reason why the magistrates dismissed the charges . |
| 10 | For me , a little bit of race watching goes a long way . |
| 11 | I mean , you can go along and always think ‘ Oh there 's nothing to this ’ , but then for some reason or other somebody has a complaint 's gone a big way round and ends up right at the top , and then , of course cascading down comes the ‘ Why ? |
| 12 | Well , if the main carriage slips while the ribber knits going one way , and then the ribber slips while the main bed knits going the other way , you are knitting in a circle . |
| 13 | I think the Home Secretary has gone a long way to meet many anxieties which were expressed |
| 14 | Th th the trouble is the government seems to go the other way , and er , when when it should be learning my opinion , lowering the age at which you receive your pension , they want to extend the age into which you have to work . |
| 15 | Experts say it 's good news for Rover , which could have been sold off if today 's European Court ruling had gone the other way . |
| 16 | Fortunately , our neutering scheme has gone a long way to alleviating this problem . ’ |
| 17 | However , the alleged principle appears to go a long way beyond authority . |
| 18 | He goes in , he trips the toggle , the toggle jiggers the trapeze , the trapeze lets go the springy pole , it whips back , it pulls up the door to the basket … the big fish is the prisoner now . |
| 19 | The fact that the party 's final net loss was only eight seats indicated that Clinton 's popularity had gone a considerable way towards offsetting the effects of reapportionment . |
| 20 | The Officer had gone a few yards when he suddenly fell to the ground . |
| 21 | The transactions completed to date have gone a considerable way towards achieving these objectives . |
| 22 | Whisper it not at the British Heart Foundation , but we knew that , as well as the salt , into that dinner had gone a dozen eggs , a couple of pints of cream , half a pound of butter , a quarter-pound of sugar and about half a pint of Calvados . |
| 23 | Tenison 's face had gone a blotchy pink ; his eyes were staring . |
| 24 | By the middle of the fourth century , Christianity had gone a long way towards assimilating the dominant culture of pagan Romans . |