Example sentences of "gone [adv] [subord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The unspoken aggression of this evening had brought back the nightmare because with him she had gone further than mere temper . |
| 2 | The second reason was that Palmerston had gone further than that by insisting on the appointment of an architect who had not even entered the competition , and the third reason was that the whole affair was so tangled when he took office that he appointed a Select Committee to look into it . |
| 3 | She had understood his reluctance to send roses to the women in his life , but Luke had gone further than that . |
| 4 | But we had already gone further than that and use child resistant caps on products wherever we can . |
| 5 | I mean sexy little telephone calls between he who will be king and his , is she a mistress , is she a girlfriend , is she merely a friend , but at any event she 's married and her husband 's in the next bedroom as far as we can gather , you know erm do those kind of conversations and would , I mean maybe it 's important to sort of say and Anne probably has this , but Peter might not , I mean when I grew up the Royal Family were a cert sort of image and you might have known about George the Third who was mad , I mean who else was brought up George the Third was mad and Geor an and this guy was a , a drunk and this guy was a a womaniser , this guy was this , but Victoria you know mourned for sixty years or whatever it was , but this Royal Family , I E the , the Royal Family with which I grew up and Anne did were really sweet nice little Windsors who behaved themselves and that was what was , went into our psychic and there was the odd crack about Phil the Great who 's the Queen 's husband , you know and how he perhaps had an eye for the ladies , but there was never any photographs of him being or any evidence that it might have gone further than that particular and basically there was , that any , there was the fact that he was a sailor when he married the Queen anyway so all sailors are like that are n't they ! |
| 6 | You may say we 've robbed Peter to pay Paul , and there 's some truth in that , but we have n't at the end of the day gone further than that . |
| 7 | It might be said to have gone further than Scandinavian legislation in distinguishing the position of the wife from that of her unmarried counterpart , since it would arguably have denied her equal access to the law . |
| 8 | The new package includes cutting income taxes , particularly the high marginal rates , containing public spending , ‘ privatizing ’ state assets ( although Britain has gone further than any other state in this ) and reducing loss-making activities among state enterprises . |
| 9 | Lord Denning has gone further than any other judge in demonstrating a willingness to require legal representation even where this is prohibited by the procedural rules governing the body in question . |
| 10 | Mandela himself , on the day of his release , described de Klerk as " a man of integrity who is acutely aware of the dangers of a public figure not honouring his undertakings " , and who had " gone further than any other Nationalist president in taking real steps to normalise the situation " . |
| 11 | The charges against Swinderby reveal him to have taught characteristic Wycliffite doctrines concerning the eucharist , absolution , tithes , preaching , and ecclesiastical temporalities ; he seems to have gone further than some Wycliffites in urging the spiritual incompetence of clerics in mortal sin . |
| 12 | Not surprisingly , it has often been said that foreign learners of English need to learn English intonation ; some have gone further than this and claimed that , unless the foreign learner learns the appropriate way to use intonation in a given situation , there is a risk that he or she may unintentionally give offence ; for example , the learner might use an intonation suitable for expressing boredom or discontent when what was needed was an expression of gratitude or affection . |
| 13 | The Deutsche Bundespost Telekom will supply 10 towns with a Switched Multi-megabit Data Service by the end of the year , Computerwoche reports : users in Munich and Stuttgart will have immediate access to the new Hannover , Berlin , Dusseldorf , Frankfurt and Nuremburg will follow ; as such the project represents the first large-scale commercial implementation of the IEEE 802.6 standard in Europe ; but Telekom has gone further than most by letting its users use the protocol 's speech and video capabilities , and the state firm is touting the network 's 53-byte cell structure as an easy way for customers to migrate to Asynchronous Transfer Mode capability in the future . |
| 14 | ‘ He would have gone more than five thou . ’ |
| 15 | Perhaps they have been driven out of the country and gone abroad because extra conditions have been imposed here . |
| 16 | Britain has gone farther than any country in the West towards getting a balance between private affluence and public consumption . |