Example sentences of "the [adj] go [adv] " in BNC.
Next pageNo | Sentence |
---|---|
1 | The overseas struggle had become closer to a world-wide contest ; the fighting outside Europe before 1713 had been confined to North America , but between 1739 and 1763 the British went far enough afield to attack the Philippines and — what was much more important — the struggle had spread to India . |
2 | The three go together . |
3 | Despite the weather the blast-off went ahead as planned . |
4 | The world , he thought , was a competitive place and the weakest went without . |
5 | Nearly all of the former and two in three of the latter went straight into jobs after they were made redundant . |
6 | It discarded purgatory and intercession for the dead , asserting that the damned went straight to hell and the saved directly to heaven . |
7 | One of the first to go ashore at St Pierre after the disaster was the Vicar-General of Martinique , Monsieur Parel , who was at Fort-de-France on the morning of the eighth , having left St Pierre only the afternoon before . |
8 | Flannery was the first to go completely . |
9 | Ivy was the first to go across . |
10 | The Dutch went ahead on their own in 1989 by approving tax incentives favouring cars fitted with catalytic converters ( emission filters costing between £300 and £600 ) . |
11 | Similarly , France had to accept some relaxation in its position or risk seeing the five go ahead by themselves : the latter option would undoubtedly see a reduction in French influence as well as the likelihood of the five soliciting British membership . |
12 | The dog , which was hardly backed at 5–1 , clocked a tremendous 27.47 secs for the 450 metres trip , and even allowing for the +30 going still ‘ found ’ 47 spots . |
13 | Sadly , the Irish went home bearing bruises and a rather unfortunate playing record . |
14 | The same goes even for apparently outward-looking practices like experiments in physics . |
15 | The same goes even more strongly for photos in the Annual Report . |
16 | His opponent , John Brien , 19 , was pulled back to all-square by the 15th , but won the 16th to go ahead again . |
17 | More smiles , and again the two went upstairs . |
18 | Belief in progress was not confined to supporters of scientism , but the two went very easily together ; and we should now review this progress . |
19 | The two went noisily to the bus-stop , leaving Alice on the doorstep , stunned , and staring without seeing at the letter she had written to her mother , thrust into her hand by Monica . |
20 | People who owned such land at the time that pressure for development came upon it — whether industrial or residential ; indeed obviously , the two went together — were faced with two choices . |
21 | The two go together . |
22 | And is any question of price and means ( the two go together of course ) simply obscene because no human , social , economic or political price is too high to pay for such a benefit ? |
23 | ‘ The two go together . ’ |
24 | Well it I think the two go together . |
25 | They are self selecting , and what we 've got to puncture is not the erm idea that the best goes forward , which is what you 're suggesting , erm but the idea of this self-selecting bit , it 's quite true that it tends to be men who put themselves forward for selection and election , and women do n't . |
26 | With many smiles and good-nights , the four went upstairs and another meeting took place in the newly-painted room , where they sat on the floor , and discussed the new problem posed by Faye and Roberta , who did not like Comrade Andrew 's role in their affairs . |
27 | When you have the ball , three of them come at you — two to tackle you and the third to go away with the ball . |
28 | Some of those who followed in Schumpeter 's footsteps in the 1950s went even further in minimizing the popular role in a democratic system of politics . |