Example sentences of "[noun] [vb base] go [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of the combinations seem to go together automatically — e.g. the apprentice will be low status , somebody who needs to be taught — but often it 's useful to think beyond the obvious . |
| 2 | But the influence of one mind over another is very subtle , and of all influences religious influence is the most dangerous and the most powerful , and to counteract it courts of equity have gone very far . |
| 3 | He indicated that discussion with the privately-run homes have gone very well and warned that there is a danger that homes in the voluntary sector may be left behind in negotiations . |
| 4 | Malt export sales for delivery over the next twelve months have gone exceptionally well . |
| 5 | Well I think he felt er as I do that it 's unfortunate that matters have gone this far . |
| 6 | Some translators of the Bible have gone so far as to postpone the main verb until the divine fiat : And God said , Let there be light . |
| 7 | Those days have gone only so long as a Government are in power who are determined to continue a regime of common sense and reasonable and balanced industrial relations . |
| 8 | The report is important because it makes it clear that where safety is not given priority by both management and the regulatory authorities — in this case the Department of Energy and the Government — things begin to go badly awry . |
| 9 | Other firms risk going too far the other way , imposing a too-narrow management — sometimes from outside the profession — and so alienating partners . |
| 10 | But there will be situations where you really feel you may be defending a lost cause , because after all things do go quite disastrously wrong . |
| 11 | Others call for a reassertion of ‘ traditional ’ Japanese values , saying that changes provoked by Western contact have gone too far , and that ‘ traditional , Japanese values should be reasserted . |
| 12 | Although things have gone well so far , the Mozambican peace process is far from secure . |
| 13 | However , the difficult condition which requires the most consideration because it is not that unlikely is one in which the operator is faced with a situation where various things have gone wrong naturally or by inadvertent human interference in the plant or instrumentation . |
| 14 | She says things have gone too far the other way . |
| 15 | ‘ We are not alone in thinking things have gone too far , ’ said Wu Shih , picking up on what Tsu Ma had said . |
| 16 | Things have gone too far . |
| 17 | ‘ I was aware when I came that I was only Warrington 's third choice , after Michael Hagan and Trevor Kissell , so I feel doubly lucky that things have gone so well . ’ |
| 18 | But things have gone so well that by June 1993 he hopes to launch a further 20 growers . |
| 19 | But I do n't think things have gone so far between us that |
| 20 | Over in Cheltenham , the canvassing could't get going fast enough . |
| 21 | Some French intellectuals have gone even further and demanded that the whole thing be burned to the ground . |
| 22 | Indeed , some people have gone so far as to elevate these restrictions on the initial conditions and the parameters to the status of a principle , the anthropic principle , which can be paraphrased as , ‘ Things are as they are because we are . |
| 23 | It had been said in the past that there was a convention that the House of Lords would not pass amendments calculated to alter the kernel of a bill approved by the Commons , but in recent years amendments have gone much further than altering the fine details of the Bill . |
| 24 | Skirts have gone so much shorter — you 'd hardly believe the hems I 've taken up . |
| 25 | But even some ofthe President 's closest supporters reckon the scandal-mongers have gone too far by trying to link Clinton the Rhodes Scholar with the Soviet secret services . |
| 26 | Sales of OS/2 have gone more slowly than some at Microsoft had hoped . |
| 27 | Some literary historians have gone even further and have suggested that courtly love was much more than just a fashionable and pleasant way of passing time . |
| 28 | He said : ‘ Once one group of residents goes , the others want to go fairly quickly because they can see their homes are being wound down . ’ |
| 29 | Neo-Marxists have gone much further and tend to claim that , in advanced capitalist societies , the state and its various bureaucracies have distinctive levels of relative autonomy from the different fractions of the bourgeoisie and , indeed , on occasion state functionaries can successfully play off one section of the bourgeoisie ( as well as competing classes ) against others , domestically or transnationally , in their own interests . |
| 30 | Other shows have gone even further in that direction . |