Example sentences of "[adv] go [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Cheese is a protein of high biological value and a little goes a long way . |
2 | The other characteristic is that their influence seems out of all proportion to the amount present : a little goes a long way . |
3 | Although they can be expensive , essential oils are highly concentrated substances ; in practice , a little goes a long way . |
4 | It 's not cheap but the dispenser means a little goes a long way and it 's more hygienic than a pot . |
5 | I doubt if the soot would actively harm your fish , but a little goes a long way . |
6 | With leaves that are streaked with bright cream or marked in bold , gold blotches , a little goes a long way . |
7 | Yes , I have , but … but a little goes a long way . ’ |
8 | Yet a little goes a long way . |
9 | A little goes a long way ; too much is unbearably sentimental . |
10 | A LITTLE goes a long way with UNICEF . |
11 | He welcomed the European Commission on Human Rights ' ruling that the case of the three IRA members killed by the SAS in Gibraltar was good enough to go the European Court . |
12 | In goes the coarse strainer , and the charcoal pad with the white side facing the foam . |
13 | So if it suddenly goes the other way round |
14 | For the first few trips outside , you should plan only to go a short way , so that the patient can get used to the distracting sights and sounds . |
15 | In Fox 's case , practice obviously goes a long way to making perfect . |
16 | So goes the traditional explanation . |
17 | Or so goes the conventional wisdom . |
18 | In the inch wars , Ryvita helps you win — so goes the old advert punch line , but which of the two main Graphical User Interfaces is likely to be the one to give you the best operating environment ? |
19 | ‘ That congregational aspect — which is a pretty Presbyterian word and I quite like the connotation — of the emotional effect of things happening to people while they 're gathered together , that was the big thing in the early acid clubs , that feeling that you were in a place with 200 people all going the same way as you , all into being there , enjoying being in this mass of people … … |
20 | He said hardly anything , I knew he really did n't want to be with us ( with Caroline ) but he 'd caught us up ; he ca n't have spotted from behind who we were , he was obviously going the same way . |
21 | We had only gone a few steps when a voice called out from across the street . |
22 | We 'd only gone a short distance from the trees when suddenly we were hit by a blinding flash . |
23 | He had only gone a short distance , when he found himself stepping into a small moonlit clearing , some twenty yards across . |
24 | So went the old rhyme . |
25 | I only go a fair way . |
26 | So go the whole hog . |
27 | Europe , on this reading , will swiftly go the same way . |
28 | The sooner she was long gone the better . |
29 | The ‘ Pater Nostra ’ organisation , which will care for physically and mentally handicapped people in Atea , expect to find that by owning their own tractor they will not only go a long way to becoming self-sufficient but will be able to hire out the tractor locally to enhance their income . |
30 | You might wish to counter that because it takes you longer to go a smaller distance . |