Example sentences of "[vb -s] go to [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Academic libraries may be expected to contain collections of research papers but too often one has to go to public libraries to find valuable collections of records and documents of local interest . |
2 | The survivor will truly believe that their loved one has gone to eternal life , and although physically apart , will believe in being reunited in the afterlife . |
3 | Most tropical forest aid has gone to industrial forestry and has done little to aid the poor or protect the environment . |
4 | The Essex-based dance star has gone to extraordinary lengths to mask his identity since storming the charts with his debut single . |
5 | Hewlett-Packard Co is well ahead of the pack in fitting out its Unix machines with the kind of operations management systems that mainframe users expect , but Sun Microsystems Computer Corp is galloping off down the same path and has gone to Legent Corp for an agreement under which Legent will convert Legent 's system management tools to run on Sparcsystems under Solaris Unix . |
6 | Vice president of sales Tony Giannelli has gone to start-up OpenBook as vice president of marketing . |
7 | He believes that the exchange rate is relevant to the control of inflation and indeed has gone to great lengths to show it , including raising interest rates in an attempt to stop the pound from falling . |
8 | Such technical recommendations are of little practical value and sometimes provoke vigorous protest from professional aviation people , but from the patient painstaking AIB inspector who has gone to great lengths to provide the sheriff 's court with as much guidance , information and advice as he can , there will be little more than a wry smile or shrug of the shoulders . |
9 | Although the government has gone to great lengths ( £1 million spent on marketing the proposals ( in an attempt to convince us that the NHS will still remain a National Health Service and will still be free to those requiring health care the proposals clearly spell the future of a health service which will move away from being a public tax funded service to a two tier service , with those who ca n't afford to pay on the bottom level receiving inadequate and cash starved services . |
10 | Mr Lendrem has gone to great pains to establish one thing : that all of his preconceptions concerning bird behaviour are true . |
11 | The most substantial boost has gone to Antarctic research . |
12 | Sun Microsystems Inc has gone to Digital Tools Inc , Cupertino , California for its AutoPlan graphically-based Unix project management system for use internally : the value of the contract was not given . |
13 | In that short period , a profit of £5m , tax-free , has gone to secret investors , and Telecom has been landed with a lemon . |
14 | So although he has gone to some trouble to leave tracks across his own land at Highgrove specially for the local hunt , the Beaufort , he hardly ever joins them . |
15 | But 50-year-old Thaw has gone to extreme lengths to keep his location secret and has turned into a virtual recluse . |
16 | Marlborough , Massachusetts-based Sequoia Systems Inc has gone to Micro Focus Plc , Newbury , Berkshire for a Cobol compiler for its Series 400 fault-tolerant Unix multi-processor : it has opted for the Micro Focus Cobol/2 optimised for the hardware architecture to produce high performance native code ; no value was given for the agreement . |
17 | I wish to present a petition on behalf of Mrs. Janet Burke of 59 Fairfield road , Scunthorpe , who has gone to considerable trouble to collect signatures protesting against any attempt to reintroduce the export of live horses for slaughter . |
18 | It has gone to German manufacturer ASI GmbH , and ASI will now supply products to the Tandon sales and marketing subsidiaries in Europe . |
19 | Most of the rest has gone to foreign-based switch suppliers such as Canada 's Northern Telecom , Japan 's NEC and Germany 's Siemens . |
20 | Heinemann 's biography of Graham Greene by Michael Shelden ( author of Orwell ) , bought from Bill Hamilton at A M Heath , has gone to Random House in the US for six figures . |
21 | Most of it has gone to three institutions : the British Museum , RADA and the National Gallery of Ireland . |
22 | Responsibility for financial services has gone to another lawyer , solicitor Alistair Darling , MP for Edinburgh Central . |
23 | Ottawa , Ontario and Burlington , Massachusetts-based Cognos Inc has gone to American expatriate Bill Totten 's Ashisuto KK , Japan 's largest software marketing company , for sales and distribution of all its software tools , including its new client-server and Unix products , directly to the Japanese market . |
24 | it 's gone , it 's gone to chief execs |
25 | She 's gone to another planet . |
26 | But somebody 's gone to considerable lengths to disguise the fact . ’ |
27 | When Queenie talks about the increased expenditure on recreation from nineteen eighty to now , that 's quite right , there has been a huge increase in spending , and that 's because the Labour Council was committed to improving recreation facilities in the City , and it did n't continue the appalling record that the Conservative administration had had before of virtually no recreational facilities , it invested in recreation facilities — you listed them yourself — and of course those facilities have to be paid for and on when we have stood for election we 've always made it clear that we want to provide quality services , but of course that they have to be paid for , and so the second point that you then made was that , you know , our budget 's gone up beyond belief , well I mean this year it 's being cut by two million pounds , last year it was a standstill budget , and erm that has been done at a time when in fact Central Government has been transferring responsibilities from Central Government onto Local Government without increasing , indeed at the same time decreasing the amount of Central Government grant that 's gone to local councils . |
28 | personally an and from er and the rest and he , he 's gone to this area and he 's looked and he , he 's seen and he may have interpreted this , or wanted to interpret it so that when his report went back that the , he was saying that we must get a move on to the people in the Party saying that we need to get involved now , we need to be in all these areas , we need to be helping things develop and , and being a part at the front . |