Example sentences of "go [adv] [adv] [subord] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Experts here say he 's much older , going back more than 5,000 years . |
| 2 | Having considered two cases ( one of them going back more than 25 years ) , it upheld verdicts in lower courts and ruled that in view of the complex scientific issues involved , the government was best placed to decide on sites and to assess their environmental impact . |
| 3 | A police investigation at a school for disturbed children has been stepped up after claims of abuse going back more than twenty years . |
| 4 | I 'm not sure whether , you see I think the management time issue is very related to this , but I think it 's a separate issue , it 's a major concern I 've got at the moment that there is , I mean I know everybody 's got their own arguments but there has been no time at ever in the future that anybody who goes back further than twenty years in the service can recall , where York has had such a small amount of management time as it 's |
| 5 | For Dr. Citterio , this classic antipasto goes back more than 110 years . |
| 6 | It goes back more than 200 years and forms an enormous resource for those studying the history of the Commonwealth . |
| 7 | Nazi thugs burn down Sony 's Berlin premises : Chancellor Kohl wins big cheers when he says the perpetrators are just high-spirited hooligans , reminds listeners that German-Japanese friendship goes back more than 50 years . |
| 8 | Susie Cooper 's career as a talented designer goes back more than 60 years , during which she has won international acclaim . |
| 9 | And I 'd just seen a colleague come and go in less than three months … |
| 10 | Cakes filled with buttercream will keep if kept in an airtight container for up to two weeks , but it does go off quicker than other types of icing . |
| 11 | This was no new departure : Charles I had wanted a strong navy , though his reliance on unparliamentary taxation to pay for it had led to trouble ; the Republic had gone further afield than previous governments and had won some notable successes ; and Charles II and his brother James had tried to build up a strong navy without becoming too caught up by the House of Commons and its desire to control policy by controlling finance . |
| 12 | Nutley ( 1982 ) , analysing these data , suggests that decline may have proceeded mainly by frequency reductions which have not gone as far as complete closures . |
| 13 | Although none of the present members go back more than 10 years ( canoeing tends to be a young sport ) the club has existed since 1952 . |
| 14 | ‘ Mine go back further than most humans ' . ’ |
| 15 | We never went as fast as downhill skiers might with their heavy skis on steeper slopes , but our descents were exciting nevertheless . |
| 16 | They do not go as far as some countries , who plan to make actual cuts in emissions rates . |
| 17 | The question of images in churches was further addressed by two sets of injunctions issued by Cromwell in 1536 and 1538 , but even here the reforms did not go as far as some iconophobes would have liked , as they drew back from condemning all images and denounced only those that encouraged ‘ superstition and hypocrisy ’ and ‘ that most detestable sin of idolatry ’ . |
| 18 | However , you will go no further than two miles from the barracks , you will behave in a manner that befits a Royal Fusilier and you will report back to the guardroom sober as a judge at one minute before nine . |
| 19 | And , in the Franks Report on ministerial handling of the conflict , we have an archive which not only shortens dramatically the interval before the normal release of classified information but goes considerably further than any disclosures at the end of the statutory thirty years in the amount of intelligence material displayed . |