Example sentences of "gone to [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although most residents were being relocated in any of the 34 remaining council homes for the elderly , some had gone to private homes and some had gone to other counties to be closer to relatives . |
| 2 | Although most residents were being relocated in any of the 34 remaining council homes for the elderly , some had gone to private homes and some had gone to other counties to be closer to relatives . |
| 3 | It must have been a popular book as it had gone to five editions by 1656 , and twenty-four editions by 1744 . |
| 4 | Refuting the argument that proportional representation would mean trimming to minority centrist positions , Robin Cooke , one of Labour 's leading advocates of reform , said : ‘ We have already gone to endless lengths to placate the centre ground . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The floors are inexpensively tiled , though they have gone to great lengths to achieve the right effect . |
| 7 | Corporate concern in the US tuna industry has been far more interested in maintaining profits than in saving dolphins , and they have gone to great lengths to protect their commercial interests . |
| 8 | Plus points include the availability of a wide range of standard sizes — you should be able to find at least one to fit your site — and the fact that the manufacturers have gone to great lengths in recent years to improve the poor appearance that older prefabricated sectional buildings traditionally suffered from . |
| 9 | A spokesman said : ‘ They have gone to great lengths to gather information useful to criminals . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The most worrying aspect of all , for Corby , however , was that many parents felt they were kept in the dark about what was happening , so that while there were exceptions , and in some cases social workers had gone to great lengths to explain the system and the likely outcomes , in two cases the parents were not aware until later in the process that they and their children were the subjects of child abuse investigations . |
| 12 | As we will see in Chapter 12 , the courts have also gone to great lengths to make it difficult to bring tort actions against regulatory bodies . |
| 13 | Once or twice he 'd gone to great lengths to deceive me but , more often , he 'd taken little trouble to cover his tracks . |
| 14 | Nevertheless , although I knew that there would be no Castello di Blandings awaiting me — Eric had always gone to great lengths to tell me that his family was not at all grand or well-off-I said yes . |
| 15 | The head had gone to great lengths to buy his own school rather than work in the state sector precisely so that he could be king-pin with nobody telling him what to do . |
| 16 | However , the hon. Gentleman will know that the Government have gone to great lengths to help the Northern Ireland economy and I am sure that the measures that my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland is taking will continue to alleviate the situation in the Province . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The Sanpro industry as a whole has been quick to wheel out the public relations machinery , and they 've gone to great lengths to reassure women that there really is n't any danger at all . |
| 19 | Well of course erm the basis used to be that many courts erm had written above them ‘ Police Court ’ and I think some of the older courts where this was sort of carved in stone may still have this above them , but Magistrates have gone to great lengths erm in recent times to emphasise this is not a police court , this is a magistrates ' court . |
| 20 | Mr Lendrem has gone to great pains to establish one thing : that all of his preconceptions concerning bird behaviour are true . |
| 21 | A number of companies have gone to great pains to point out to the shareholders that the goodwill adjustment does not affect the company 's net asset value , but Company Reporting named a number of companies that have actively avoided showing the full extent of losses on disposal . |
| 22 | Not only having gone to higher standards of were but also looking to account a motion which has already been passed by the Environment Committee on the fourteenth of September nineteen ninety three and what I was basically saying was that erm incinerator should come to That 's Life that the current E E C proposals on erm that that and I know that 's not a rule but in fact when Her Majesty 's Inspectorate of Pollution is actually considering this want to draw their attention to a motion which in some cases were saying that we would expect the highest possible standards if those developments were to go ahead with the . |
| 23 | We 've definitely gone to eleven hours ? |
| 24 | Although most residents were being relocated in any of the 34 remaining council homes for the elderly , some had gone to private homes and some had gone to other counties to be closer to relatives . |
| 25 | Although most residents were being relocated in any of the 34 remaining council homes for the elderly , some had gone to private homes and some had gone to other counties to be closer to relatives . |
| 26 | Or who have gone to other humans to get help either for their own kind or for others with whom they are associated , human or otherwise . |
| 27 | it 's gone , it 's gone to chief execs |
| 28 | Chris Walton , prosecuting , said two women had gone to two branches of Boots in Darlington and using a stolen cheque book , obtained £40 worth of gift vouchers . |
| 29 | It may be that the IRA , fearing informers , had gone to such lengths to restrict the knowledge of where the ‘ active service unit ’ was that it was unable to warn them that their presence was compromised . |
| 30 | If Libya was solely responsible , why had the US government gone to such lengths to silence one of its own intelligence agents on the subject of the DEA 's operations in Cyprus , and when the discredit what he had to say ? |