Example sentences of "have gone through a [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The imager was selected from six finalists of the 1991 competition and has gone through a two-year production stage to prove its commercial viability .
2 Evode has gone through a sticky patch .
3 The thing has gone through a tidal change and we know pay attention to the views of women themselves .
4 St Matthew 's School has gone through a difficult patch in the last few years .
5 She must have gone through a terrible period in her life ; looking back , she genuinely believed it to be worse than it really was .
6 But Viola had reassumed all her wonted , iron-clad voluptuousness , and only her reddened eyes — had they , Greg wondered , been rubbed since she saw him coming up the path ? — suggested that she might have gone through a frightening or saddening time .
7 In Three Men in a Boat he tells how , having gone through a medical dictionary at the British Museum — to check if he had hayfever — he decided he had everything in the book except housemaids knee .
8 This enabled each bottle to start in an almost horizontal position , but finish perpendicular having gone through a full 90° of movement without leaving the hole .
9 Cos we 've gone through a whole sort of full circle about taking a stance that 's very aggressive in terms of saying if we i i if we tender for something we 're gon na hit the client with V Os and this that and the other .
10 ‘ I had gone through a poor year in Test cricket and wanted to play in England to check out my technique .
11 Her brother Mr Bhatti , of Lawrence Street , Dundee , told Lord Osborne that under their faith a couple were not considered to be married until they had gone through a religious ceremony before a Mullah .
12 In a very short space of time — just a few decades — the industrial moths had gone through a small but distinct evolutionary step .
13 Murphy , whose face had gone through a perfect pantomime of reactions during her speech , now nodded silently , his complexion purple .
14 Suddenly the little girl lost , the lovable teenager , had gone through a startling catharsis .
15 ‘ Paula started to tell me about another woman who Eddie had begun seeing and she said that the marriage had gone through a bad patch and divorce proceedings had been started , ’ Miss Coltman said .
16 Then , half an hour later , he was taken away by the police for the way in which , in his bid to make amends , he had gone through a red light .
17 As I have said , after the abandonment of his undertaking uniform he had gone through a dodgy bookie/snake-oil purveyor period .
18 These cultures have gone through a major change such that the use of credit is now an accepted feature in managing personal expenditure patterns .
19 In Germany , for example , there 's nothing like the division between Parliament and Government that I was speaking of erm as far as France was concerned , erm nor is there to quite the same extent erm the sort of links between administrative politicians and political administrators , but one of the things they share in common is a tendency to have a legal background and a legal approach to administration , and almost all senior civil servants in Germany , for example , have gone through a legal training .
20 Insiders say UBS fixed-interest staff have gone through a considerable shake-up in recent months and Ben Allen had been increasingly unhappy .
21 ‘ He had been nursed superbly and that needs to be said because the nurses have gone through a difficult time for obvious reasons and I would like to assure them , in public , that what they have done was quite superlative . ’
22 No I was wa er what what the other guys did he 's gone through a whole load of newspapers cutting peoples faces out
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