Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] go [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are quick learners , and some cocks go on to vanquish more than a hundred opponents before they themselves miscalculate and die . |
| 2 | We witnessed recently a singular event in Zaire when Belgian and French troops went in to protect their citizens . |
| 3 | When parents or social workers went up to see us , obviously they had to see the staff , and the woman in charge was so nice , she had this big front — ‘ My girls , my girls ’ — it was totally a load of shit . |
| 4 | How do social workers go about investigating these complaints , and what leads them towards deciding that a child has been abused ? |
| 5 | THE GOVERNMENT told British firms to go on exporting to Iraq , even though it knew parts were being used to build up Saddam 's war machine . |
| 6 | Some writers went on to argue that attracting high ability youngsters into manufacturing industry was one of the conditions for a regeneration of the British economy . |
| 7 | Engineering workers in most east German regions went back to work after being promised pay parity with west German workers by 1996 . |
| 8 | Hostels or discharge units within the hospital grounds enable some patients to go out to work daily and have a relatively autonomous and responsible life , while retaining some of the security of the hospital environment . |
| 9 | Not surprisingly , left-inclined social scientists go on to take the view that good sense can only be made of British politics if the pluralist ideology is set aside and a start to understanding is made elsewhere than in the world of interest-group activity . |
| 10 | Some graduates go on to take further qualifications , for example in housing or social work , or into postgraduate research . |
| 11 | He made films like Sanders of the River ( 1935 ) and The Four Feathers ( 1939 ) , featuring courageous British aristocrats going off to fight for the British empire , not out of a sentimental admiration for those times , but because the Empire provided good stories , as Hollywood also found at the time . |
| 12 | ‘ It is not clear why a few of the many people who carry this bacteria go on to develop TSS , while the majority do n't . |
| 13 | In rural areas the school frequently serves as a focal point for the local community — its removal can have a detrimental effect in that it may become increasingly difficult to attract new families to settle , the younger age groups tend to drift towards the neighbouring towns and the average age of the remaining inhabitants goes on rising . |
| 14 | However , in summer our early forebears went inland to hunt deer and birds ; evidence of their presence survives in our peat bogs . |
| 15 | The accounting policy note on associated undertakings goes on to state that the directors believe that equity accounting for associated undertakings would not give a true and fair view of the group 's income . |
| 16 | These molecules go on to activate a ‘ nuclease ’ enzyme that breaks down messenger RNA molecules used to make viral proteins . |
| 17 | The three brothers went on trying to build their town of Skadar , and every night the stones fell apart and the buildings fell down . |
| 18 | Abkhazian troops went on to take the villages of Gantiadi and Leselidze on Oct. 6 , thus establishing control over the whole of northern Abkhazia , from the capital Sukhumi to the border with Russia . |
| 19 | But the government may have to let Kowloon 's shadowy firms go on polluting . |
| 20 | The only alternative is a china cup and in Holland , all new vending machines going out mow must be able to take one . ’ |
| 21 | page three school all these girls go off to like school with their togs off , you know |
| 22 | Some of these entrepreneurs went on to form proper companies , one of which was the AERONautical Company of America — better known as AERONCA . |
| 23 | The three piggies went over to investigate . |
| 24 | District competitions were held over a period of six months and finalists and runners-up from these matches went on to represent their district at the area competition . |
| 25 | Two of the boys from amongst these pioneers went on to study Mathematics at Cambridge , with great success , to Daniels ' pride : J. G. Adshead of Caius College , who eventually became Professor of Mathematics at Dalhousie University , Nova Scotia , and W. L. Edge of Trinity College , who held a similar post in the University of Edinburgh . |
| 26 | After the long breakfast the three girls went out to visit Moran in the fields . |
| 27 | I spoke softly to my robot : ‘ If these children go on playing with this robot animal , they will never become afraid of animals . |
| 28 | As independence approached , all the Namibian students on these courses went home to take part in the election process . |
| 29 | Nineteen of the 23 Major Project schools of that time contained clear statements of aims to enhance the curriculum as a whole , although many schools went on to identify particular subjects or departments which required attention first . |
| 30 | Many secretaries go on to become assistant PR executives . |