Example sentences of "has gone to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of each of the 23 pairs has gone to one of the resulting sperm or ova and one to the other . |
| 2 | The survivor will truly believe that their loved one has gone to eternal life , and although physically apart , will believe in being reunited in the afterlife . |
| 3 | Most tropical forest aid has gone to industrial forestry and has done little to aid the poor or protect the environment . |
| 4 | The Essex-based dance star has gone to extraordinary lengths to mask his identity since storming the charts with his debut single . |
| 5 | Hewlett-Packard Co is well ahead of the pack in fitting out its Unix machines with the kind of operations management systems that mainframe users expect , but Sun Microsystems Computer Corp is galloping off down the same path and has gone to Legent Corp for an agreement under which Legent will convert Legent 's system management tools to run on Sparcsystems under Solaris Unix . |
| 6 | Vice president of sales Tony Giannelli has gone to start-up OpenBook as vice president of marketing . |
| 7 | He believes that the exchange rate is relevant to the control of inflation and indeed has gone to great lengths to show it , including raising interest rates in an attempt to stop the pound from falling . |
| 8 | Mr Lendrem has gone to great pains to establish one thing : that all of his preconceptions concerning bird behaviour are true . |
| 9 | Such technical recommendations are of little practical value and sometimes provoke vigorous protest from professional aviation people , but from the patient painstaking AIB inspector who has gone to great lengths to provide the sheriff 's court with as much guidance , information and advice as he can , there will be little more than a wry smile or shrug of the shoulders . |
| 10 | Although the government has gone to great lengths ( £1 million spent on marketing the proposals ( in an attempt to convince us that the NHS will still remain a National Health Service and will still be free to those requiring health care the proposals clearly spell the future of a health service which will move away from being a public tax funded service to a two tier service , with those who ca n't afford to pay on the bottom level receiving inadequate and cash starved services . |
| 11 | Much of the bank 's lending in the UK has gone to major public sector developments such as the Sullom Voe oil terminal in the Shetland Isles , British Rail 's advanced passen-ger train , and various National Water Council projects . |
| 12 | The most substantial boost has gone to Antarctic research . |
| 13 | All the development aid that has gone to many third world countries comes back twofold and threefold through interest payments on the debt , underpayment for commodities and the over-profitability of multinational corporations . |
| 14 | Sun Microsystems Inc has gone to Digital Tools Inc , Cupertino , California for its AutoPlan graphically-based Unix project management system for use internally : the value of the contract was not given . |
| 15 | As the American Protestant layman Thomas Howard has said ‘ Jews and Christians worship the God who has gone to vast and prolonged pains to disclose himself to U8 as he not she , as King and not Queen , and for Christians as Father not Mother , and who sent his Son not his daughter in his final unveiling of himself for our eyes . |
| 16 | In that short period , a profit of £5m , tax-free , has gone to secret investors , and Telecom has been landed with a lemon . |
| 17 | So although he has gone to some trouble to leave tracks across his own land at Highgrove specially for the local hunt , the Beaufort , he hardly ever joins them . |
| 18 | On top of that , proportionately more has gone to those who have only their state pension by way of benefits . |
| 19 | But 50-year-old Thaw has gone to extreme lengths to keep his location secret and has turned into a virtual recluse . |
| 20 | Marlborough , Massachusetts-based Sequoia Systems Inc has gone to Micro Focus Plc , Newbury , Berkshire for a Cobol compiler for its Series 400 fault-tolerant Unix multi-processor : it has opted for the Micro Focus Cobol/2 optimised for the hardware architecture to produce high performance native code ; no value was given for the agreement . |
| 21 | I wish to present a petition on behalf of Mrs. Janet Burke of 59 Fairfield road , Scunthorpe , who has gone to considerable trouble to collect signatures protesting against any attempt to reintroduce the export of live horses for slaughter . |
| 22 | It has gone to German manufacturer ASI GmbH , and ASI will now supply products to the Tandon sales and marketing subsidiaries in Europe . |
| 23 | Most of the rest has gone to foreign-based switch suppliers such as Canada 's Northern Telecom , Japan 's NEC and Germany 's Siemens . |
| 24 | Heinemann 's biography of Graham Greene by Michael Shelden ( author of Orwell ) , bought from Bill Hamilton at A M Heath , has gone to Random House in the US for six figures . |
| 25 | Most of it has gone to three institutions : the British Museum , RADA and the National Gallery of Ireland . |
| 26 | Responsibility for financial services has gone to another lawyer , solicitor Alistair Darling , MP for Edinburgh Central . |
| 27 | Ottawa , Ontario and Burlington , Massachusetts-based Cognos Inc has gone to American expatriate Bill Totten 's Ashisuto KK , Japan 's largest software marketing company , for sales and distribution of all its software tools , including its new client-server and Unix products , directly to the Japanese market . |