Example sentences of "[noun pl] go [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No Hiding Place Sitting containers on pallets or bricks goes a long way toward preventing them from harbouring all kinds of pests under their bottoms . |
| 2 | They 're added to marzipan to improve its flavour and keeping qualities , and a little oil of bitter almonds goes a long way in much confectionery . |
| 3 | well even the cars going the other way are going faster so what the fuck |
| 4 | It 's not as though you got cars going the same ca n't doing any of that . |
| 5 | His eyes went a few degrees cooler . |
| 6 | Good selection procedures and thorough briefing sessions go a long way towards making an overseas assignment a success . |
| 7 | These religious tensions go a long way towards explaining why the party divide cut so deep into society : political strife during the first age of party did not just affect the political elite at the centre and a minority of the more affluent and better-educated classes in the localities , but all sorts of people , including those of fairly humble backgrounds , women as well as men , were caught up in the party divide . |
| 8 | Did the steamers go the next day ? |
| 9 | Well , I wo n't have any of my sons going the same way . ’ |
| 10 | The Botallack mine , with its nineteenth-century engine houses spectacularly sited on the cliffs , mined tin from beneath the sea-bed , with galleries going a third of a mile out from the shore , and the Levant mine had men working 2,000 feet below sea level . |
| 11 | Such a use of sub-committees goes a long way towards achieving an ‘ open ’ management process . |
| 12 | People do n't usually hit out unless they are upset or angry , so showing you understand their feelings goes a long way to preventing them from expressing that anger towards you . |
| 13 | It seems to me that this difference in the structure of the schedules goes a long way towards explaining in industrial terms the relative stasis of British television subgenres like sitcom , crime series and soap opera , and the drive towards innovation found in the corresponding genres on US television . |
| 14 | However , changes going the right way at any level are to be encouraged and demanded . |
| 15 | Squeezed into an Islington drinking hole prior to an onstage engagement , Sam sips tentatively at a half of lager while the siblings go the whole hog and guzzle pints of water . |
| 16 | He said : ‘ Things went no better or worse than I expected : I 'm getting that sort of treatment every game now and it 's up to me to overcome it . |
| 17 | In the lands of Men things went no better . |
| 18 | ‘ Your own stories go a long way towards doing that . ’ |
| 19 | THE picture above shows the ideal set-up for the modern work station , and the new EC regulations go a long way to achieving this . |
| 20 | If they are doing purely local journeys , then that may be too much and they may prefer to use the Oxford ringroad , but if they are doing long-distance journeys ten miles is not a very significant addition to their journey in length and the congestion on the Oxford ringroad is such that it may actually be shorter in time terms to go the longer way round in distance . |
| 21 | Trees going the same way now . ’ |
| 22 | Along with the mingling of the genres go the other stylistic features of a rather modish postmodernism : pastiche ; montage ; paraphrase ; parody ; allusion ; quotation ; often adding up to no more than a cultivated divertissement . |
| 23 | The Super Sportster Z had won every race it entered and the shareholders go a good dividend . |
| 24 | The other side of the coin is the agonising trust in the dark , the utter obedience when all our inclinations go the other way , and the willingness to suffer which marked our Lord . |
| 25 | The figures for applications heard by a single Lord Justice and two and three Lords Justices went a long way to explaining why , despite the facts that the rate at which appeals were begun had shown little change over the years , there had been some small increase in judge-power and that major improvements had been made in the court 's procedures , the number of appeals outstanding at the end of each year and the lead times for hearing appeals showed no real improvement . |
| 26 | Those local authorities that are investing in the necessary shredders and mechanical mixers are finding that the savings of landfill charges go a long way towards paying for the environmental gain . |
| 27 | ‘ When I 'm coasting like this — in the natural state , ’ she argued , ‘ the beams go a certain distance to reach me . |
| 28 | Along with these measures went the catch-all clause , introduced at the last moment by the Liberal MP Henry Labouchère outlawing all forms of male homosexual contact . |
| 29 | I will see that happening , but it is the freedom of schools to choose that is all important , and there are some particular elements of expertise which are not available to schools because it 's not available centrally , and I believe that giving schools their budgets goes a great way to meeting this . |
| 30 | Many folks go a long way up the Bulger to fix a high runner and top-rope the move , but this is a bit naughty , and it wo n't help you on the upper slab . |