Example sentences of "go [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 're all going to go off one day and there 's nothing better than planning for it . |
| 2 | The best way to go about proper practice is to find yourself a partner of similar standard , who is equally keen to improve , and spend hours sweating and toiling on the practice court . |
| 3 | The easiest and most obvious way to go about this self-assessment is to divide a sheet of paper with a line down the middle , head it ‘ Plus ’ and ‘ Minus ’ and write down everything you can think of under each heading . |
| 4 | and , and stuff like that so I mean in a sense you 're by now a fairly good judge of the way to go about this sort of thing , you 're a fairly good judge of what sort of things are important , perhaps the way in which people describe stuff and , and , you know , words , concepts , vocabularies erm all that kind of thing which obviously it helps if your questionnaire fits in with |
| 5 | Cassock and surplice , a black cassock and white surplice once I told you that my grandmother was once living with us , she used to delight in washing my surplice and ironing it up except me when I was singing in the choir , I did n't take a , the treble solos , that was after the choir used to sister of ours at least oh twenty men , and as many lads and youths the as I say Johnny was in the choir there was er the two brothers and there was Dick was a incense boy and his father was a manager to go in the , he used to have a red cassock and surplice , but he used to Dick 's dad was the incense swinger and they used to go about swinging incense and that , I do n't suppose they do that at all now , but er your first job as a choirboy was to pump the organ it , have you ever been in the church ? |
| 6 | And are you now going to take that any further or are you going as far as the government wants you to go as this stage ? |
| 7 | Things are pretty bad in Britain , Howard soon discovers , as he goes about questioning government officials . |
| 8 | Are we going to go for fourteen lane high way , or motorway , on the M twenty five , cos if you do , all the roads that lead from it are going to have to be fourteen lane . |
| 9 | It is therefore in the interests of bureaucrats to go for increased staffing levels as a means of constructing such coalitions , and the implications of this clearly point to increased waste and inefficiency , since , having bid for a maximum budget , within that budget , instead of adopting the most efficient form of production and delivery of services , ‘ bureaucrats ’ can be expected to choose the most labour-intensive . |
| 10 | erm the Labour party decided to go for proportional representation . |
| 11 | It 's cos I ca n't be arsed to go for one stamp . |
| 12 | Er ours is a slightly more difficult task , I would suggest a much more difficult task , in that we 're trying to go for one certificate for the whole of the group . |
| 13 | Part of the considerable achievement of Michael Mann 's imaginative but faithful treatment is that it manages to make acceptable for the 1990s some of the outmoded attitudes of its characters , and yet refuses to go for that eco-trendiness that will make Dances With Wolves look dated by the turn of the century . |
| 14 | It must have cost a lot of money to go for that amount of time ? |
| 15 | ‘ We decided to go for restricted leg room rather than restricted vision , ’ he said . |
| 16 | Meanwhile , promising teenage winger Andy Turner has opted to go for international recognition with the Republic of Ireland rather than England . |
| 17 | In my professional view , cos if the new settlement has to be in is ch is i has to be within the greenbelt then it 's better to go for peripheral development rather than have a new settlement in the first place . |
| 18 | The sort of questions your adviser will ask are : whether you are investing for income now or capital growth in the future ; whether you need to go for absolute security with every penny you have or whether you can afford slightly more risky investments in the hope of making more money in the long run ; what other sources of income you have , or might expect to receive . |
| 19 | Get a pair that you can afford , that are easy to handle , and have a magnification of from 7 to 10 ( resist the temptation to go for higher power ) . |
| 20 | Now , when the output is fixed , there are far greater incentives to go for lower cost inputs . |
| 21 | The best advice I can give you is simply to go for unfair dismissal on the basis that you 've got two managers who do exactly the same job , there 's no need for you to go on site , there are other drivers that could get you there , therefore it 's not necessary to finish your job simply because you 've lost your licence . |
| 22 | These days you do not have to go for matching suites of furniture in the dining room , any more than you have to go for three piece suites in the living room . |
| 23 | Nerves got the better of me and only when Les Cox stopped me to go for another take did I realise I 'd got my letters mixed up and had inadvertently said : ‘ Will you switch these sans off please ? |
| 24 | They 're here all this morning , but they had to go for another meeting . |
| 25 | Kerry 's hair had been recently cut but she decided to go for another snip when she arrived at the studio . |
| 26 | If you forget , as you turn to go for another dog the lead dog , being a friendly creature , will come with you . |
| 27 | The guidance says that Kenneth Clarke , the Health Secretary , ‘ is minded ’ to go for Japanese-style pendulum arbitration — where the arbiter would be free only to find for one party or the other , and would not be able to compromise . |
| 28 | ‘ If we were to go for full indexation , ’ said Jacek Kuron , the Labour Minister , ‘ there would be a mountain of money on the market leading to enormous price increases , with all the dangers that implies , especially for the poor . ’ |
| 29 | The response is that in a rapidly growing market ( say 30 per cent growth per annum ) the only way to increase market share is to go for massive expansion of capacity ( say 50 per cent per annum ) . |
| 30 | Like Shujan he has had his training setbacks but Armstrong has shrewdly got enough runs into him to go for this handicap and his recent home form suggests it is worth taking a chance with him as he is on the upgrade . |