Example sentences of "go to [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He does indeed go to great lengths to check the credentials of everything on sale at his deli-cum-restaurant-cum off-licence in Berkhamsted , Herts , ( ‘ Berko ’ to the locals ) celebrating its 10th anniversary this month . |
| 2 | If there was a strong majority in favour of a particular action , we would go to great lengths to persuade the minority of the error of their ways . |
| 3 | Given the information and access responsible suppliers will go to great lengths to solve a real problem up to and even including commissioning full scale research projects . |
| 4 | Most adults will go to great lengths ( get out of bed repeatedly ; stop leaving the child at playschool ) to ‘ switch of P such distressing sounds . |
| 5 | Dealers , sometimes surreptitiously encouraged by their firms , would go to great lengths to extract information from employees of rival firms . |
| 6 | Adam knew that Elinor would go to great lengths to avoid being called unprofessional . |
| 7 | We live in a society which greatly enjoys strawberries — our aesthetic appreciation of them is high and we will go to great lengths to acquire them . |
| 8 | They also had a deep suspicion about anyone wearing a bandage and would go to great lengths to find out why one was really wearing it . |
| 9 | Workers will go to great lengths ‘ to protect their relative real wage ’ ( CT , p. 14 , original italics ) : ‘ the struggle for money-wages is … essentially a struggle to maintain a high relative wage … |
| 10 | Fortunately most old people do get a satisfactory service from their general practitioner , finding that he will go to great trouble to see that they get all the medical and social help that is available to them . |
| 11 | If I could go to bloody work , I would ! |
| 12 | Order for and enquiries about the Central Law Training manuals for the Law Society 's final examinations and the legal executives examinations should go to Central Law Publishing , . |
| 13 | They could n't go to central personnel ? |
| 14 | The general story is well known : the director at Ulm saying you must go to better things , your dismissal , months of unemployment , and then the chance of the Aachen post despite the fact that at 27 years of age you were thought far too young for such an important post in German musical life . |
| 15 | ‘ You can go to distant planets and sit on the rings of Saturn , ’ says Lanier . |
| 16 | ‘ I want to make films that I want to go and see , and I do n't go to art-house movies . |
| 17 | The alternative to keeping quiet about these problems is , of course , to deny their very existence , and the prize for the most successful campaign of VD eradication , or alternatively the rarest piece of dissembling , must go to Communist China which claims to have got rid of syphilis in the ten years after 1950 . |
| 18 | Ah yo er well you can only go to five pounds the two on here . |
| 19 | A hundred gamma Dragons will go to key customers and ISVs in the first quarter . |
| 20 | Work on communications between DEC machines and other manufacturers ' kit will go to internal systems integration teams . |
| 21 | Cos we wo n't go to late night shopping . |
| 22 | Right I put this together ah very quickly just before you came in , I thought it would be useful to get some feedback on the education the two educational events that have taken place so far , now unfortunately I could n't go to Topping Printing but you were there Ann |
| 23 | The big sales , however , will go to private sector companies . |
| 24 | When he was about thirteen or fourteen he decided he would like to take classes provided that he could go to private lessons . |
| 25 | I shall go to antenatal classes where I shall nourish my obsession for natural childbirth . |
| 26 | In fact , Luke could hardly go to greater lengths in stressing that the Age to Come dawned with Jesus ' birth . |
| 27 | A waxed cotton jacket , ideal for country walks and worth £47 , will go to eight winners of our fourth prizes . |
| 28 | And some of them will go to extraordinary lengths to try to find out . |
| 29 | Orders and queries should go to Caliban Books , Blaen-Cwmiar , Llanllwni , Llanybydder , Dyfed , Wales ( ) . |
| 30 | ‘ We ca n't go to extra time , ’ Drew muttered to Ricky . |