Example sentences of "[vb -s] go [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think that the genetic er , testing that was , that is now law , has to go a long way towards finding criminals , who once they 've been tested will find it very difficult to commit crime again , because they 're on record , and they 'll be on computer record . |
| 2 | It 's a million miles in style from our usual sweeping lawns and landscaped vistas , but in the latest in our series Summer Gardens , we visit the little piece of England where a little really HAS to go a long way . |
| 3 | Karen Rake of Aylesbury finished fourth in both the 100 and 200 and now has to go the Welsh Nationals next month to try to qualify for the Europeans … |
| 4 | While the press , led by The Hindu , has gone a long way to proving that Bofors handed out millions of dollars to Indian middlemen , the identity of the ultimate recipients of the money remains a mystery . |
| 5 | Indeed the latest text has gone a long way towards meeting the UK 's objections . ’ |
| 6 | Cuba has gone a long way to reducing gender inequalities , though power relations still clearly favour men , a fact of which all Cubans , including their leaders , are very aware . |
| 7 | This minor impediment for the flanker is just sufficient to allow a fraction more time and space for the half-back to get things moving and has gone a long way to assist in opening the game up . |
| 8 | And in fact patient research has gone a long way towards resolving this knotty problem . |
| 9 | The Community has gone a long way towards achieving that central purpose ; towards taming nationalism without suppressing patriotism ; towards sharing sovereignty without destroying nations ; and towards putting the magic of markets to work for society in a stable democratic setting . |
| 10 | I think the Home Secretary has gone a long way to meet many anxieties which were expressed |
| 11 | Fortunately , our neutering scheme has gone a long way to alleviating this problem . ’ |
| 12 | BT has gone a few steps further , and begun trials of its own telephone robot , capable of handling many of the routine tasks usually dealt with by its 25,000 human operators . |
| 13 | And , indeed , as befits someone who 's hovering on the edge of idolatry , even her vocabulary has gone a little pagan ‘ Till dieted by thee I grow mature in knowledge as the Gods who all things know ’ , and then what I think is a brilliant touch on Milton 's part , the very next line says to us ‘ Though others envy what they can not give ’ . |
| 14 | And so , hours later , when the room has gone a dusky grey from winter twilight and the smoke of our cigarettes , a most blank and bovine nurse accompanies Jackie 's husband into the room , and he indeed bears an armful of Sainsbury 's . |
| 15 | Out has gone the traditional ‘ no comment ’ to be replaced by an almost ‘ open door ’ policy . |
| 16 | However , official teaching has gone the other way , becoming increasingly restrictive in its emphasis on the grounds that the sharing of communion is acceptable only as an expression , and not as a cause of unity . |
| 17 | Well , if the main carriage slips while the ribber knits going one way , and then the ribber slips while the main bed knits going the other way , you are knitting in a circle . |
| 18 | Th th the trouble is the government seems to go the other way , and er , when when it should be learning my opinion , lowering the age at which you receive your pension , they want to extend the age into which you have to work . |
| 19 | However , the alleged principle appears to go a long way beyond authority . |
| 20 | He goes in , he trips the toggle , the toggle jiggers the trapeze , the trapeze lets go the springy pole , it whips back , it pulls up the door to the basket … the big fish is the prisoner now . |
| 21 | ‘ That means going a little way into the mountains and I do n't see how you could get lost on a mountain road . |
| 22 | Clapp subsequently lost heavily to Suffolk 's Colin Gathercole in the afternoon , however , to leave Essex needing the last two matches to go the right way . |
| 23 | A little really does go a long way , so apply sparingly , by dotting on minute amounts and rubbing in well — only re-apply every three hours or so . |
| 24 | A little smut , it must be said , does go a long way . |
| 25 | I think he 's gone a dumb . |
| 26 | I mean , you can go along and always think ‘ Oh there 's nothing to this ’ , but then for some reason or other somebody has a complaint 's gone a big way round and ends up right at the top , and then , of course cascading down comes the ‘ Why ? |
| 27 | ‘ No , I 've still got Dad , but he does n't count for much now , poor love , he 's gone a little bit silly . ’ |
| 28 | Ooh looks it 's gone a funny colour ! |
| 29 | Oh I , it could be on , I ca n't see the red light now , it 's gone the other side . |
| 30 | He 's gone the whole hog that guy hanging down to his |