Example sentences of "have gone a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While the press , led by The Hindu , has gone a long way to proving that Bofors handed out millions of dollars to Indian middlemen , the identity of the ultimate recipients of the money remains a mystery . |
| 2 | Indeed the latest text has gone a long way towards meeting the UK 's objections . ’ |
| 3 | Cuba has gone a long way to reducing gender inequalities , though power relations still clearly favour men , a fact of which all Cubans , including their leaders , are very aware . |
| 4 | This minor impediment for the flanker is just sufficient to allow a fraction more time and space for the half-back to get things moving and has gone a long way to assist in opening the game up . |
| 5 | And in fact patient research has gone a long way towards resolving this knotty problem . |
| 6 | The Community has gone a long way towards achieving that central purpose ; towards taming nationalism without suppressing patriotism ; towards sharing sovereignty without destroying nations ; and towards putting the magic of markets to work for society in a stable democratic setting . |
| 7 | I think the Home Secretary has gone a long way to meet many anxieties which were expressed |
| 8 | Fortunately , our neutering scheme has gone a long way to alleviating this problem . ’ |
| 9 | BT has gone a few steps further , and begun trials of its own telephone robot , capable of handling many of the routine tasks usually dealt with by its 25,000 human operators . |
| 10 | And , indeed , as befits someone who 's hovering on the edge of idolatry , even her vocabulary has gone a little pagan ‘ Till dieted by thee I grow mature in knowledge as the Gods who all things know ’ , and then what I think is a brilliant touch on Milton 's part , the very next line says to us ‘ Though others envy what they can not give ’ . |
| 11 | And so , hours later , when the room has gone a dusky grey from winter twilight and the smoke of our cigarettes , a most blank and bovine nurse accompanies Jackie 's husband into the room , and he indeed bears an armful of Sainsbury 's . |
| 12 | Before he 'd gone a hundred yards Joseph saw a burly French colon cuff an Annamite coolie roughly about the head at the curbside after descending from his pousse-pousse . |
| 13 | She said if you went out alone in a tight skirt you were black and blue before you 'd gone a hundred yards . |
| 14 | And we 'd gone a roundabout way the last time we were there and I thought oh I 'll give it a go , anyway I walked straight down this road , have a look oh yes , turn up here anyway I , I sort of got me bearings and I thought oh yes it 's just down here he 's in the field just down there . |
| 15 | In terms of the Midlands ' representation in the Premier League the game was wasted as Notts County 's victory is unlikely to save them while the three points would have gone a long way to ensuring Coventry 's place . |
| 16 | The mayor also outlined plans which , if implemented , would have gone a long way towards mopping up the demand for houses in Derry . |
| 17 | Making a name for himself as a boxer in the army had come easy to him , and had it been peace time he could probably have gone a long way in the sport . |
| 18 | You may not end up with an athlete 's heart through aerobic walking , but you will have gone a long way to improving its strength and efficiency , thus ensuring a longer and healthier life . |
| 19 | Hill , who was a member of the little-known punk band Sex Hitler and the Hormones in the 1970s , will have gone a long way from those roots if he does manage to succeed his father Graham , who won two titles in the 1960s . |
| 20 | Peter Scudamore is on record as saying that Sabin du Loir is one of the best horses he has ever ridden , and could have gone a long way towards towards justifying that high opinion but for falling in last year 's King George at Kempton when holding a healthy lead . |
| 21 | Even broken sets can fetch large sums , and a complete bound run is likely to cost the buyer anything up to £4,000 , which would have gone a long way to paying Ackermann 's army of workmen . |
| 22 | The crowd 's response to his resilient 6–4 , 7–5 , 6–4 defeat of a totally overawed Sampras , in his David Cup debut , plus their even greater support as he and Forget beat Ken Flach and the hapless Robert Seguso 6–1 , 6–4 , 4–6 , 6–2 , with flurries of brilliant winners in the doubles , must have gone a long way to at least dimming the memory of the cruel booing he received in 1988 when he struggled against Mats Wilander at Roland Garros in the final of the French Open and then again at Bercy the following November . |
| 23 | Pity about Agnes Algar could have gone a long way in the Service but went charging off on some unauthorised stunt in America typically female in the end trying to save the career of some soldier who 'd got himself … |
| 24 | He 'd have gone a different route , they could have gone to see him after . |
| 25 | It could have gone a different way . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ I hope they 've gone a long way , ’ said Pascoe . |
| 27 | But sh sh sure they can succ succ they can succeed in creating capitalism , it , it it , it might succeed in paving the way for new China 's industrialization but we 've gone a long way from any any ideological position , we 've gone a long way from well what is in the best material benefiting class of the poor peasant now the poor peasant is not gon na get very much out of this . |
| 28 | But sh sh sure they can succ succ they can succeed in creating capitalism , it , it it , it might succeed in paving the way for new China 's industrialization but we 've gone a long way from any any ideological position , we 've gone a long way from well what is in the best material benefiting class of the poor peasant now the poor peasant is not gon na get very much out of this . |
| 29 | What about it like this , see , I 've done all those hats , I 've done the , I 've gone a great hat I have |
| 30 | We 've gone a few rounds and we 're still good friends . |