Example sentences of "[noun pl] go [adv prt] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The literature on the professions goes back a long way , but seems to have reached a peak in the 1960s and 1970s ( see , for example , Etzioni 1969 ; Jackson 1970 ) , perhaps because the professions were at an apogee of esteem at that point , before the attacks of Illich ( 1977 ) and others who , like Shaw many years before , accused them of establishing a ‘ radical monopoly ’ in the name of meeting people 's ‘ needs ’ . |
| 2 | Collective self-help and co-operative ways of tackling problems go back a long way . |
| 3 | Through such developments , a cadre of AEA managers went up the commercial learning curve . |
| 4 | After a long week , I received a phone call at lunchtime to say that the specimen was at the airport about to be collected , and I made arrangements to go up the following day . |
| 5 | Make sure the brushes go back the right way up — match them with the side you have not yet removed . |
| 6 | ‘ The accounts go out every six months , ’ he reminded her with a frown . |
| 7 | Yeah well the thing is that something 's got ta shift because we 've got we 've got all these bloody flights going out the same time |
| 8 | The need to catch whales goes back a thousand years or more in Japanese history . |
| 9 | There 's a crush over by the door in one of the rooms , with flashbulbs going off every few seconds , but it 's impossible to get near enough to see . |
| 10 | Men went down the main shaft and tried to clear it by shovelling the slurry into tubs which were then hauled to the surface but this was soon abandoned as it was realised that it would take weeks or months to clear a way through to the trapped men . |
| 11 | The arch-rivals go back a long way . |
| 12 | No , you know you know as you 're going down the corridor before you get to the doors to go down the next set of stairs , I mean in O S D , the last one is er for the P C that does all the man er you know all the duties and things like that , and in his office there 's a great big board with all the vehicles on , and the key 's hung up at the end and who 's got 'em out , and the bottom one is that green van , because he went up and picked 'em up , when I was there . |
| 13 | Links with Group marine coatings go back a long way . |
| 14 | Six candles went out the first time , the remaining three the second time . |
| 15 | Although ‘ systematization ’ struck many of its critics in the West in 1988–89 as an insane novelty , in fact its roots went back a long way . |