Example sentences of "[vb base] to great [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Italy 's cities have been at the heart of world history , art and culture , and everywhere tributes remain to great masters like Leonardo Da Vinci . |
| 2 | Prime ministers go to great lengths to preserve public appearances over collective responsibility . |
| 3 | While manufacturers go to great lengths to produce the many excellent ‘ artificial ’ diets without which the fishkeeping hobby would certainly not have developed to today 's high standards , it is up to the fishkeeper to look more closely at the food requirements of his fish and provide what is necessary . |
| 4 | Laney go to great lengths in their literature to point out that , while the two different technologies remain mutually exclusive , each has its good points and there is no reason why both should not co-exist . |
| 5 | Hunt supporter Barbara Rich says saboteurs are a dirty , smelly bunch , but they go to great lengths to object to what they consider a barbaric ‘ sport ’ . |
| 6 | Wrong ‘ I know they go to great lengths to avoid paying up , but I did n't realise it had got this bad . ’ |
| 7 | Police psychologist Barrie Irving said yesterday : ‘ The women go to great lengths to cover their tracks well in advance . |
| 8 | You mention your father 's tax case and you go to great lengths to set the record straight . |
| 9 | At the BBC , we try to reproduce sounds as accurately as possible , particularly in wildlife where we go to great lengths to find the right noises to fit the locations and species . |
| 10 | Many of the police series go to great lengths to ensure an authentic feel ( otherwise the companies get shoals of complaints from the policemen who avidly watch such shows , and sometimes begin to model their behaviour on what they see ) . |
| 11 | Even with the legal penalties that exist , people go to great lengths to avoid paying taxes legally by finding loopholes in the tax laws ; or they evade taxes by illegally cheating the tax authorities . |
| 12 | It is equally undeniable that they derive great pleasure from physical confrontations with rival groups of supporters and go to great lengths to evade the authorities and make such confrontations possible . |
| 13 | As might be expected from the foregoing analysis , an investigation by the DTI Innovation Unit and the Technology Group of the CBI found that innovative ‘ Best Practice ’ companies go to great lengths to generate and capture ideas , from both internal and external sources , with careful attention to the balance of technology push and market pull and the rigorous implementation of screening processes and on-going reviews . |
| 14 | I mean sometimes people go to great lengths and trouble |
| 15 | I think in general by virtue of the fact that we go to great lengths to make sure that people fully understand exactly what they have got I mean we 're not in a in a situation where we want people to think that they 've got something they have n't , which is why we go to the lengths that we do erm to make sure that people are fully aware of what they 've got , and if they 're unhappy with what they 've got then obviously within the fourteen day period we give them the right to cancel . |
| 16 | However , composers often go to great pains to keep to true intervals . |
| 17 | None of these tell us exactly where this house stood but go to great pains to state that a field of this name is still extant . |
| 18 | Grace openly demanded payment of £20 a match from Gloucester and more for Test matches ; Wisden could only comment that ‘ nice customs curtsey to great kings ’ . |
| 19 | Sometimes such initiatives lead to great things . |
| 20 | It was a victory which could , and did , lead to greater things . |