Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] go [art] " in BNC.

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1 Many organizations have gone the whole way and created entirely different systems for each of these needs .
2 But if the means of communication have moved in a more public direction , the images have gone the other way .
3 She felt as she always did , not fear , but a kind of cold , dead calm , the way you might feel in a car in which the brakes have gone the moment before the crash .
4 Anyway , everyone knows that training shoes have gone a bit crazy in the past few years .
5 Brailsford was one of the few popular frontists prepared to go the whole hog and accept this .
6 After the lunch guests had gone the house settled down into quiet .
7 The Thatcher governments have gone a long way towards puncturing claims about the power of the unions .
8 But things started going a bit wrong before she could start .
9 His feelings had gone no deeper than the surface .
10 If the statutes had gone no further , it might have been said that the regime was simply trying to turn all serfs into " obligated peasants " ( in line with Nicholas I 's statute of 1842 ) .
11 Warning that workers at the mine could suffer from silicosis and that dust from the mine could have a devastating effect on the local soil chemistry , Mr Wilson said it was cheaper to manufacture andalusite artificially , and wondered why Navan Resources wished to go the expense of mining it : ‘ To make it in any way economically feasible to mine this , it would have to represent over 30 per cent of the total of the rock formation of the mountain and this means that almost one third of your mountain would disappear ’ .
12 Most people agreed that things had gone a bit far when he told the Church , in 1982 , to ‘ Face north-west whenever possible . ’
13 Modern petrological studies have gone a long way towards answering this question : polished hard-rock axes seem to have been made from stone obtained from a limited number of outcrops .
14 Since most Christian teachers are kind persons who prefer to avoid controversy when they can , and doodle anxiously during fierce argument at meetings , things tended to go the way of Bethune-Baker ; partly because he was devastating , and partly because often he was devastatingly right .
15 Whereas the Victorians had gone a bit ‘ foreign ’ with some of their house designs , Inglewood was as English as you could get , and looked like a clean , clear-cut , practical version of Cheshire 's most famous half-timbered house , Little Moreton Hall .
16 There is ample room within the synaptic interactions of even 20,000 neurons for their properties to be those of the system rather than of its individual cells , and claims which were once popular that within insect and crustacean nervous systems one could find key ‘ command ’ neurons have gone the same way as , in eastern Europe , parallel enthusiasm for ‘ command economies ’ — that is , they turn out to be not a good way to organize individual behaviour any more than to run a country .
17 The tickets have gone the tickets have gone for the er the Phil Kelsall concert you can get them on the door four quid on the night a week on Friday at eight o'clock at the er Alfreton Leisure Centre but our complimentary tickets have gone , long long gone .
18 It is a good idea of Lewis Carroll to think of the March hare because in March hares tend to go a bit potty and they stand on their back legs and box each other .
19 I do n't water mine very often I wait till the , one of the leaves start to go a bit yellow and then
20 Cider and culinary apple orchards have gone the same way , all helped along until a few years ago by government grants to grub up the old trees and replace them with easy to spray , prune and pick bush types .
21 I have n't noticed I 've lost any weight only that me clothes have gone a bit loose , it must be only a couple of pounds literally but on Mrs scales I 'm half a stone lighter , but I do n't think so by tomorrow night I 'll be about eleven , ten
22 Most patterns need to go the same way on all pieces joined , so this must be taken into account when ordering .
23 Even in Kyrgyzstan , one of two republics trying to go the way of democracy and keep the fundamentalists at bay , the Slavs are packing their bags .
24 A few battered English paperbacks had gone the rounds , and Anna had read them too .
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