Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] gone [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Coming in a week , when an American judge told a rape victim she ‘ deserved what she got ’ for wearing a lace mini-skirt , and an English judge dropped a rape charge because his 16-year-old alleged victim had the mental age of seven , yesterday 's case has gone some way to restore their faith in the justice system . |
| 2 | Perhaps the wheel has gone full circle and the middle class is now prepared to sell its birthright of privacy for the glittering prizes of acquisition . |
| 3 | While English law has gone some way to providing a reasons requirement there are still significant gaps . |
| 4 | But one local craftsman has gone one stage better and has made is own time piece . |
| 5 | Although the Brady debt initiative has gone some way to potentially alleviating the debt problems of Chile , Colombia , Costa Rica , Mexico and Uruguay — those countries which have made serious adjustments — two of the biggest debtors , Brazil and Argentina , remain outside the ring . |
| 6 | Can I just say a conclusion I 'm not sure how you feel how the meeting 's gone this evening I think it 's been very positive meeting at least people have actually said what there concerns are and actually raised eh , some , some of the issues . |
| 7 | Now the Mediator has gone one stop further than that by recommending what , in reality , could be described as pay cuts for staff . |
| 8 | This is precisely what the Union has gone some way to doing with its appointment of Glen Ball , Leighton Davies and John Perkins — respectively Neath manager , Maesteg coach and Pontypool coach — to act as Alan Davies 's go-between with the Welsh First Division clubs . |
| 9 | By the spring of 1937 the Largo Caballero government had gone some way towards taming the process of social revolution and absorbing the militias into a regular army built around the Communists ' own Fifth Regiment . |
| 10 | Celtic 's problem is that Rangers are one of the tiny minority and they have been the pre-eminent team on a domestic level , while the other half of the Old Firm have gone four years without winning anything . |
| 11 | He believed , moreover , that although man 's reason had gone some way in ‘ its great and proper business of morality ’ , the progress had been slow . |
| 12 | City have gone four games without a goal and Reid wants to halt the slide . |
| 13 | The Minister has gone some way towards allaying those fears by adding the proviso that any money from disposals should be used for the acquisition of further works . |
| 14 | I must say that the way the discussion has gone this morning , is n I would say , slightly disappointing because there is some attempt to make a positive contribution , but at the moment it 's not necessarily pointing us quite in the direction which we would hope to go . |
| 15 | The custom-built disease has gone next door . |
| 16 | Last night , Mr Robinson said Mr Brooke 's speech had gone some way to getting dialogue ‘ back on the rails . ’ |
| 17 | But even if Fen had gone ten miles , she swore she would find him . |