Example sentences of "[noun pl] go [adv prt] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The literature on the professions goes back a long way , but seems to have reached a peak in the 1960s and 1970s ( see , for example , Etzioni 1969 ; Jackson 1970 ) , perhaps because the professions were at an apogee of esteem at that point , before the attacks of Illich ( 1977 ) and others who , like Shaw many years before , accused them of establishing a ‘ radical monopoly ’ in the name of meeting people 's ‘ needs ’ . |
| 2 | Collective self-help and co-operative ways of tackling problems go back a long way . |
| 3 | His memories go back a long , long way . ’ |
| 4 | The need to catch whales goes back a thousand years or more in Japanese history . |
| 5 | The arch-rivals go back a long way . |
| 6 | Links with Group marine coatings go back a long way . |
| 7 | Although ‘ systematization ’ struck many of its critics in the West in 1988–89 as an insane novelty , in fact its roots went back a long way . |