Example sentences of "[be] [adj] to go a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | but I hope however that he will be willing to go a few steps further . |
| 2 | That bullet would be lucky to go a hundred yards , but that was not the point . |
| 3 | As one would expect , incomers took a greater interest in discussing class — class is supposed to go a long way in explaining the membership of given social networks , and in the scope of such networks . |
| 4 | The engines said to Truro , he was first to go a hundred miles an hour . |
| 5 | To find an English ancestor it was necessary to go a long way back in Richard 's genealogy — to one of his great-grandmothers , Edith , the wife of King Henry I. This English link , slight as it was , was none the less well known to the men who frequented the princely courts of Europe , for in their world family connection was all-important . |