Example sentences of "go [to-vb] [adv] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ There have been a number of occasions in the past when stories have appeared in the press saying what the figures are going to be in one or two days ’ time … but when someone quotes exactly the figure which is going to come out the next day it is hard to believe they just made an inspired guess . |
| 2 | And I think he 's going to work out the other two and then go on to this forget the name of it at the moment , this bank |
| 3 | Mr are you going to pick up the first point and then Mr . |
| 4 | In a land where trendy cafés display neon signs reading SMACK BAR and SNATCH BAR , no one 's going to pick up the linguistic and social markers that pin the native Brit down like so many Lilliputian bonds . |
| 5 | Whether because people really did not know how to interpret the revolution in England or because they wanted fairly complete independence and correctly suspected that William was going to exercise much the same overall powers as Charles and James had done , there was a revolt in New York that took some months to suppress and the colonists of Massachusetts at the beginning of the 1690s were no more reconciled to English rule than in the past . |
| 6 | Mr Toubon has denied the rumour which circulated in Paris after the March General Election that he was going to shut down the trouble-torn Bastille Opera to carry out a complete technical and financial inventory . |
| 7 | We 're going to put on the Olympic Games in ‘ 96 , we 're going to make everybody including Athens proud . |
| 8 | er I do n't know how to answer that question , all I can say is we 're going to put on the Olympic Games in ‘ 96 and we 're going to make everybody , including Athens I hope , proud . |
| 9 | They were going to put on the big show . |
| 10 | If you 're going to keep up the same pattern of commitments the answer is that the army is already stretched as it clan be and so are the other two services and this is putting a terrific strain on the individual servicemen and their families . |
| 11 | ‘ We 're not going to get back the passing trade , ’ she explained . |
| 12 | How can we achieve a new look when some things are going to stay exactly the same ? |
| 13 | If people know we met because my parents fostered you when you were a teenager , they are n't going to think any the less of you , ’ she said , her voice gentle because this was an old hang-up , one which her family had spent years trying to dispel . |
| 14 | And I think we 're going to have exactly the same thing with this opting out system . |
| 15 | In fact , we 've stolen some nuclear weapons and we 're going to tell the government we 're going to blow up the whole country unless they let us play Wembley . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ I 'm going to enlarge both the geological room and the botanical room , ’ Svend continued , barely stopping to take breath . |
| 17 | If the family were going to take on the outside world , they 'd do it in eccentric style , his father had implied . |
| 18 | Once get your heroine into one of those confrontations that are going to make up the greater part of her adventure , once have her facing another person and the words will flow . |
| 19 | The Independent Labour Party in its rapid decline gave rise to several minorities besides those going to make up the Socialist League . |
| 20 | He showed us videos of them in action and I was convinced he was going to bring out the old Kirk Douglas film The Vikings to empha-sise the point , ’ said Neal . |
| 21 | Melanie went to clear up the broken toy . |
| 22 | Later , it is important to try to understand and work through the different strands of feeling which go to make up the total experience of loss . |
| 23 | Only one event pulls together all the strands that go to make up the complete electronic publishing market , Electronic Publishing&print 1988 . |
| 24 | The reproductive system , the digestive system , the thinking system all go to make up the overall system . |
| 25 | The third weakness is a fundamental one : various institutional differences in the operation and segregation of the many sectors that go to make up the financial services industry . |
| 26 | The Bullock Report offered clear support for language in teacher education : ‘ Among the modules that go to make up the professional training element there should be a compulsory one on language in education ’ ( DES , 1975 : 337–8 ) . |
| 27 | The Met Office regards last summer as one of those exceptions from the norm which go to make up the typical British weather rather than some trend for the future . |
| 28 | Though he does not develop the metaphor , Paul would , I think , agree with the fuller details to be found in I Peter : individual Christians are spiritual stones which go to make up the spiritual temple which is built on Christ ( I Pet . |
| 29 | While this kind of breakdown does help one to comprehend the various strands and stages that go to make up the current system , it is rather crude . |
| 30 | The novel proves that knowledge is possible , but also that it is in a sense artificial : it does not come from the past , historical knowledge in particular can not simply be uncovered , laid bare and put out to view ( or rather , the novelist can no longer create the illusion that the past is speaking for itself ) ; it is a construction of the past , and the reader is conscious of , and in compliance with , the careful disposition and organization of the disparate elements that go to make up the whole edifice . |