Example sentences of "[noun sg] go [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Travelling vicar goes full circle |
| 2 | But the story goes that money speaks , and some people , some parents , if they get hit in the pocket , will probably take more notice of their child , |
| 3 | As recorded by Fredegar , the Byzantine link , with the emperor Maurice , is chronologically impossible , but the presence of vast quantities of Byzantine coin in Childeric 's grave goes some way to supporting the idea that he did have support from the eastern Empire . |
| 4 | mum goes mum , mum goes natural bar |
| 5 | On the one hand , setting and enforcing more adequate levels of child support goes some way to redressing the balance of the current situation where the costs of supporting children fall almost entirely on the mother . |
| 6 | The index goes some way to overcoming these problems . |
| 7 | It is hoped that this chapter goes some way to redressing the balance : relative prices do matter in the General Theory , though they do not adjust in the manner suggested by the classical writers and by their monetarist/new classical descendants . |
| 8 | The exchange rate is excellent and you 'll find a pound goes three times as far as it does in Britain ( a feast in a good restaurant can be less than £3 ) . |
| 9 | The lorry travelling on a motorway at a constant speed goes hundred metres in four seconds , what is his speed ? fours into sixty |
| 10 | Because you do n't pull out in front of a car going seventy miles an hour |
| 11 | ‘ He has slammed into my back on running plays a few times , and the only way I can describe what it feels like is to imagine standing on the street and getting hit by a car going 50 miles an hour . |
| 12 | And then Equity went one step further . |
| 13 | A Swedish study went some way towards achieving this aim by using soldier ‘ volunteers ’ and keeping them awake for about 72 hours in a constant environment . |
| 14 | Stage 2 of the curriculum review went some way , therefore , to provide more verifiable data . |
| 15 | But when the Thatcher boom went bust Sugar 's business declined with it — and so did Amstrad 's market rating . |
| 16 | The examination is a collection of questions and individually a question goes some way to satisfying the requirements of the examination . |
| 17 | It is only if theologians go on using the old equipment ( sun goes round earth etcetera ) that they fall out with the philosophers and scientists . |
| 18 | And when Travis seemed absolutely stumped for words , she could do no other than fill what would have been an awkward silence with , ‘ I could probably make the lasagne go three ways if … ’ |
| 19 | Oh aye but when the bloke went next door to Jimmy 's , he , he said where 's your vent and Jimmy says there it is up there , ah , and he got up there |
| 20 | No on when it came down the bag missed the hanger instead of one bit going each side of the hanger so that the clothes were inside |
| 21 | When people are used to , say , £1 of their limited housekeeping money going each Friday to nice Mr Jones when he calls , it must be very difficult for them even to consider diverting that money into a different spending channel which would instead involve them — rather than Mr Jones — in all the work of paying it in . |
| 22 | Before the new names can go in the pot , the ones that have remained in it for the two years have to come out so , after a brief introduction by the chairman of the trustees and the vicar , the three keyholders leave the room to go next door to the church where the chest is kept . |
| 23 | Right the reaction goes both ways . |
| 24 | ‘ Nothing 's lost , ’ he says and bang goes another drawing for 2d. or nothing , while he dreams off to some café to borrow some paper . |
| 25 | Nor would the suggestion of a derivational link to a noun hold good for an associative use of young rather common in advertisements : ( 14 ) the young place to go young clothes the young thing to do Another thing to emphasize is that what we are considering does not depend on a change of sense in the adjective ; in some cases , certainly , the shift from ascription to association or vice versa may be accompanied by or compatible with such a lexical change ; but this may happen equally in cases of classical structural ambiguity , such as : ( 15 ) Charles will give a talk on the village green where two different senses of on are called upon , as one shifts from the one structure to the other . |
| 26 | It is difficult to avoid the comparison with present day Germany in relation to the other states of the EC and the quotation goes some way to explaining the motives for closer integration . |
| 27 | Benedict 's reagent goes orange , Tollin 's reagent gives a silver mirror , acidified dichromate solution goes green , and Fehling 's reagent goes bright red . |
| 28 | Apart from the lamps that gave a yellow glow to the leaves , the only light came from the big windows of the Communist club which was packed on both floors , its discotheque going full swing . |
| 29 | Once the door was shut , they could have had a dance band going full blast and you 'd never know it in the next room . |
| 30 | I heard the buzzer go four times . |