Example sentences of "have [adv] go a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 They also argue that the latest draft of the charter , drawn up by President Mitterrand , has already gone a long way to assuage Mrs Thatcher 's legitimate fears about the loss of British sovereignty .
2 The computerised exchange — known as Direct Dialling In ( DDI ) — has already gone a long way to reducing delays for the thousands of callers daily using the Essex Rivers Healthcare Trust switchboards .
3 In all , 255 young trees were planted , a huge task which was completed by the garden team at Nymans in ten days and which has already gone a good way towards restoring the diversity of colours , shapes and textures of conifers in their prime .
4 You money has always gone a long way in Thailand .
5 Along with this has often gone a general rejection of the idea of a First Philosophy , more secure than , or prior to , the sciences , and an acceptance of the naturalistic doctrine that a philosophical account of knowledge should be permitted to use empirical information drawn from the sciences .
6 MICHAEL Roberts has certainly gone a long way towards silencing his critics in the past week .
7 We 'd only gone a short distance from the trees when suddenly we were hit by a blinding flash .
8 He had only gone a short distance , when he found himself stepping into a small moonlit clearing , some twenty yards across .
9 Owen Barfield , both in conversation and in writing , had already gone a long way in revealing to Lewis the fallacy of making sharp distinctions between ‘ myth ’ and ‘ fact ’ .
10 I do n't know , they 've probably gone a different way today
11 From being a simple pleasure that had helped take her mind off her troubles , it had now gone a long way towards restoring her rather battered pride .
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