Example sentences of "[noun pl] go [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But even if the relative lack of profitable investment opportunities goes some way to explaining the poor investment rate , then if US business had felt itself under more pressure , it might have made greater efforts to improve technology . |
| 2 | Having kept too many new air-conditioning units going all day , they would be suddenly burdened by the lights of the night and would switch off , blacking out the whole town . |
| 3 | Kids go pleasant egg brown . |
| 4 | Where did all the lads go last night ? |
| 5 | Although we accept the Government 's recent concessions go some way to meeting the concerns expressed at second reading , we believe an additional amendment is crucial . |
| 6 | By '87 , Grange Hill was watched by 36 per cent of all children and , when Zammo beat heroin addiction in '86 , the ‘ Just Say No ’ single went to Number One and all heroin addicts went cold turkey ( Ernest Bishop was shot in '78 , by the way ) . |
| 7 | Even his ears went bright red . |
| 8 | actually when I think my eyes , my eyes go dark green , fucking they 're almost like translucent green cos the are all fucking |
| 9 | With the gradual decline of established occupations and trades went massive rehousing and the breakdown of community and neighbourhood ties . |
| 10 | The idea that Molla Yegan and Fahreddin Acemi held different sorts of posts goes some way toward a possible explanation of the obvious confusion concerning the facts of the Muftiliks of these two men . |
| 11 | His face softened , his pupils grew bigger , and his irises went deep green like olive oil . |
| 12 | Environment Minister David Maclean told an audience at Tory Central Office : ‘ The rain of the last few days goes some way to replenishing the reservoirs . |
| 13 | canines go each side of the when they squeeze the windpipe . |
| 14 | Ideally Moss would like the open system vendors to go one step further and take over development of Tivoli 's distributed management framework entirely — ‘ because they should be doing the standards and API work . ’ |
| 15 | Ideally , Moss would like the open system vendors to go one step further and take over development of Tivoli 's distributed management framework entirely — ‘ because they should be doing the standards and API work . ’ |
| 16 | I just remembered one of these lights went last night |
| 17 | New observations go some way to patching up that discrepancy but also bring difficulties of their own . |
| 18 | I hope these observations go some way to addressing your concerns . |
| 19 | Yet retrospectively he envied the Mallory children their hardships — the shared beds , the shoes that pinched , the heaps of washing , the inconvenience of too many babies in too short a time , the lack of privacy , the meagre pocket-money , the quarrels and tears , because with these things went other things infinitely precious , laughter and love , tenderness and the joy of living , things signally missing from his own childhood . |
| 20 | Jesus had been , with his disciples and he had spent the whole day in teaching and preaching to the people , he 'd been explaining to them what the kingdom of God was like , he 'd been telling them some of the parables that perhaps we 're familiar with , he 'd been telling them about the parable of the sewer and the seed , the man who went out and he sewed his seed and different things went wrong birds came and picked up the stuff that fell by the wayside , some fell on stony ground and it could n't put down any roots , some fell amongst thorns and they were quickly choked , but some did fall in good prepared soil and that grew . |
| 21 | I was just discussing this last night , but they used to be more friendly atmospheres , even with the away supporters years ago you know it was but things go full circle in the end and hopefully like I say we 're getting back to some sort of sanity now . |
| 22 | We thus tend to think of ourselves as machines , and when things go wrong treatment is organized along similar lines as it is for our machines — servicing , repairing and patching as dictated by the appearance of aches , pains and loss of function . |
| 23 | The hugh complex of the Crystal Palace Sports Centre does present certain problems to those who shoulder the responsibility of organising our biennial November Rally there , and bouquets go this time to Ann Langford and her Surrey colleagues in ensuring a smooth , efficient , well-planned event . |
| 24 | Soulmen go new age |
| 25 | The figures go some way to counter fears that the recovery is faltering , but they reveal also that not every sector of the economy is gaining . |
| 26 | The bastard son of the scuzziest Whirli Go Round operator this side of Alpha Centauri . |
| 27 | And then he got on to explain what the items were , seventy five percent of the items went next day , and ninety thousand went , I 'm sorry , and er , and twenty five percent went two day , three day , and if you divide one into the other , what it means is that two point one consignments two me , sorry , two point one items per consignment went Express , and six items per consignment , general . |
| 28 | To connect their knowledge with the language system people use reasoning , and pragmatic theories go some way towards explaining how people reason their way from the form to the function and thus construct coherent discourse from the language they receive . |
| 29 | The stairs went both ways , up and down and were thickly coated with dust . |
| 30 | During this spell the Lions went 35 minutes without being awarded a penalty but conceded 10 . |