Example sentences of "[noun] have go [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed the latest text has gone a long way towards meeting the UK 's objections . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | And in fact patient research has gone a long way towards resolving this knotty problem . |
| 4 | The tramp choked a little , as if the gum he accepted and popped into his mouth had gone the wrong way . |
| 5 | Many organizations have gone the whole way and created entirely different systems for each of these needs . |
| 6 | But if the means of communication have moved in a more public direction , the images have gone the other way . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 ’ . |
| 9 | Maggie 's gone the opposite way from Tesco 's ; her heels are sinking into grass . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Teclis was stronger now , the potions of the Loremasters had gone a long way towards giving him mortal strength . |
| 13 | The Thatcher governments have gone a long way towards puncturing claims about the power of the unions . |
| 14 | His feelings had gone no deeper than the surface . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 ? |
| 17 | I think the Home Secretary has gone a long way to meet many anxieties which were expressed |
| 18 | Experts say it 's good news for Rover , which could have been sold off if today 's European Court ruling had gone the other way . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | He said that the economy was now stabilizing ; inflation had fallen to around 5 per cent , and unemployment had gone no higher than 2 per cent . |
| 21 | Fortunately , our neutering scheme has gone a long way to alleviating this problem . ’ |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The fact that the party 's final net loss was only eight seats indicated that Clinton 's popularity had gone a considerable way towards offsetting the effects of reapportionment . |
| 24 | By the 1680s the old-fashioned cavalry of the pomeshchiks had disappeared as an independent force , the streltsy were restricted to internal policing duties , and Muscovy had gone a long way towards establishing a professional army . |
| 25 | The Officer had gone a few yards when he suddenly fell to the ground . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | The transactions completed to date have gone a considerable way towards achieving these objectives . |
| 28 | A long time in the dark and he d have to go a long way round if he was n't to upset the sheep and alert Jack . |
| 29 | Whisper it not at the British Heart Foundation , but we knew that , as well as the salt , into that dinner had gone a dozen eggs , a couple of pints of cream , half a pound of butter , a quarter-pound of sugar and about half a pint of Calvados . |
| 30 | Indeed , my father 's face had gone a dull reddish colour , like no colour I had seen on a living being . |