Example sentences of "[noun] goes [adv prt] a [adj] [noun] " 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 | ‘ That — that our relationship goes back a long way , of course . ’ |
| 3 | Mankind 's love affair with the apple goes back a long way . |
| 4 | Iron working in the area goes back a long way . |
| 5 | When describing the apparent relationship , instead of making the somewhat vague generalization ‘ the higher the X , the higher the Y ’ , the linear summary permits a more precise generalization ‘ every time X goes up a certain amount , Y seems to go up a specified multiple of that amount ’ . |
| 6 | However , social historians say couples having non-penetrative sex goes back a long way . |
| 7 | This awareness goes back a long time , and to Lace it we need to leave the field of folklore and go back into the realms of ancient philosophy . |
| 8 | US cities are different from British cities in that , housing goes down a long chain of ownership , becoming more downgraded with each owner , because the wealthy continually build new houses . |
| 9 | ‘ His family goes back a long way . ’ |
| 10 | The final stage goes up a smooth incline that appears to have been man-made , possibly to ease the passage of materials for the erections on the top . |
| 11 | For BP , involvement in the region goes back a long way . |