Example sentences of "gone [adj] [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said the brothers who had hurt Edouard had turned to culture , they had gone that afternoon to the Chagall museum . ’ |
| 2 | At Eton I had gone each day to Spottiswoode 's bookshop to follow the course of this war in The Times . |
| 3 | Last night , Mr Robinson said Mr Brooke 's speech had gone some way to getting dialogue ‘ back on the rails . ’ |
| 4 | Although the Brady debt initiative has gone some way to potentially alleviating the debt problems of Chile , Colombia , Costa Rica , Mexico and Uruguay — those countries which have made serious adjustments — two of the biggest debtors , Brazil and Argentina , remain outside the ring . |
| 5 | They have gone some way to healing their internal rifts . |
| 6 | The experimental rig that will be built at the UKAEA 's Harwell base is , ironically , called ACHILLES , The NII agrees that recent work in Canada , West Germany and the United States has gone some way to showing the likely scale of the ballooning effect . |
| 7 | However , another group working in the US believes it has gone some way to understanding the link between high pressures and the superconducting state . |
| 8 | Channel 4 has gone some way to remedying this situation . |
| 9 | This is precisely what the Union has gone some way to doing with its appointment of Glen Ball , Leighton Davies and John Perkins — respectively Neath manager , Maesteg coach and Pontypool coach — to act as Alan Davies 's go-between with the Welsh First Division clubs . |
| 10 | France , however , has gone some way to showing that a judicious space programme — based on modest goals and less than the highest technology of the era — need not be excessively costly . |
| 11 | While English law has gone some way to providing a reasons requirement there are still significant gaps . |
| 12 | Our disposal programme , which has raised approximately £1 billion to date , together with reductions in capital and operating expenditure , has gone some way to improving gearing and strengthening our balance sheet . |
| 13 | If we can answer this question , we shall have gone some way to understanding the different claims made in the Conservative and Labour manifestos . |
| 14 | It may be argued that , in 1986 , the Government rejected the idea of abandoning the adjudicatory role of the prison visitors board , which was part of the Prior recommendations , so , as they had gone some way to changing the internal discipline regime , they might reasonably look again at Prior . |
| 15 | With the kind assistance of the local estate agencies I have gone some way to tracing the subsequent history of the two properties owned by the above company . |
| 16 | The initial committee appointed to consider the terms on which to offer William and Mary the Crown , which contained a Whig majority of twenty-eight to twelve , drew up a list of twenty-eight Heads of Grievances which , if all remedied , would have gone some way to satisfying the radicals ' desires . |
| 17 | However , Jim Turle , the director of communications at Lang brothers , said that while Mr Lamont had gone some way to redressing the balance , he had by no means levelled the playing field . |
| 18 | and Mr Potter has gone some way to acknowledging that in saying that the circumstances may change . |