Example sentences of "go [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 ? |
| 3 | Things are pretty bad in Britain , Howard soon discovers , as he goes about questioning government officials . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | erm the Labour party decided to go for proportional representation . |
| 6 | ‘ We decided to go for restricted leg room rather than restricted vision , ’ he said . |
| 7 | Meanwhile , promising teenage winger Andy Turner has opted to go for international recognition with the Republic of Ireland rather than England . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 13 | 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 ) . |
| 14 | You are much more likely to go for old pine , or oak , tough lacquer or vinyl — at least for several years , but there is no reason why these can not work just as well and create a feeling of their own . |
| 15 | The point that I 've been making with the various percentages is that those negotiations will become unrealistic if on average , you 're talking about forty some percent of sites having to go for affordable housing on a negotiated basis . |
| 16 | It had been anticipated they would be operating mainly among the trees surrounding the estate , so the object was to go for maximum noise and shock effect while inflicting the least injuries possible . |
| 17 | It helps if we know where to go for formal approval of decisions , or know who is responsible for what . |
| 18 | In Bristol , often the pressure is to go for high status careers . |
| 19 | They forget that the magic of television means that we 've probably heard it all before , so we really do make an effort to go for fresh material . |
| 20 | It is difficult to see how punishment could be justified on purely retributivist grounds consistently with the positive freedom principle , and the same would seem to go for expressive denunciation as a general justification of the system . |
| 21 | This is understandable as , given the choice , no one wants to go through great suffering or pain . |
| 22 | Jesus has just stated that he had to go through great suffering ; to be rejected by the Jewish leaders ; and to be put to death and to rise again . |
| 23 | And that you , if you wanted to go through appropriate court procedures and disagree with the official then that was up to you . |
| 24 | David Elliott overtook two waiting cars to go through temporary traffic lights at roadworks at Catterick Bridge , near Richmond , Leyburn magistrates were told . |
| 25 | There are several reasons why this may be present , but the main one is that it ‘ guarantees ’ that the manufacturer has conformed with EC weight regulations and it enables foods to move easily between EC countries without having to go through lengthy weight checks in the importing country . |
| 26 | The same goes for personal affection . |
| 27 | ‘ She also dashes about London trying to redress the sexual balance by finding out where a woman goes for paid sex , trying it and telling you how it was and how much . ’ |
| 28 | ADVANCED MICRO GOES FOR SIMPLIFIED PRICING WITH ITS FIRST Am486 PARTS |
| 29 | No , that goes for tan colour course it does n't go |
| 30 | AND THAT GOES FOR BIG LAWRIE |