Example sentences of "has gone [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 While the press , led by The Hindu , has gone a long way to proving that Bofors handed out millions of dollars to Indian middlemen , the identity of the ultimate recipients of the money remains a mystery .
2 Indeed the latest text has gone a long way towards meeting the UK 's objections . ’
3 Cuba has gone a long way to reducing gender inequalities , though power relations still clearly favour men , a fact of which all Cubans , including their leaders , are very aware .
4 This minor impediment for the flanker is just sufficient to allow a fraction more time and space for the half-back to get things moving and has gone a long way to assist in opening the game up .
5 And in fact patient research has gone a long way towards resolving this knotty problem .
6 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 .
7 I think the Home Secretary has gone a long way to meet many anxieties which were expressed
8 Fortunately , our neutering scheme has gone a long way to alleviating this problem . ’
9 BT has gone a few steps further , and begun trials of its own telephone robot , capable of handling many of the routine tasks usually dealt with by its 25,000 human operators .
10 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 ’ .
11 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 .
12 Out has gone the traditional ‘ no comment ’ to be replaced by an almost ‘ open door ’ policy .
13 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 .
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