Example sentences of "have gone to [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The head had gone to great lengths to buy his own school rather than work in the state sector precisely so that he could be king-pin with nobody telling him what to do . |
| 32 | He had gone to great trouble to ascertain ways in which my knowledge of Italy and especially Libya might be put to use : As I was once again unemployed and earning no money , I needed to obtain some work . |
| 33 | Although most residents were being relocated in any of the 34 remaining council homes for the elderly , some had gone to private homes and some had gone to other counties to be closer to relatives . |
| 34 | Although most residents were being relocated in any of the 34 remaining council homes for the elderly , some had gone to private homes and some had gone to other counties to be closer to relatives . |
| 35 | Here , someone had gone to considerable lengths to get the cushions toning in nicely with the curtains . |
| 36 | The Gnomes had gone to considerable trouble ; Culdub and Bith had sat up long hours and consulted books and chronicles and there had been much burning of late candles and worried scurryings to and fro between the Gnomes ' houses in the little mountain village . |
| 37 | Somebody had gone to considerable trouble and expense to acquire the books and have them hollowed out , then delivered to the car hire people just before our plane arrived . |
| 38 | Ellen 's father , Jack , had greeted his daughter with the testily expressed hope that she had not left the safe position at the royal castle that he had gone to considerable trouble to obtain for her . |
| 39 | By 5th November , 1856 , 1,050 applications had been received ; g by 5th December , 1,628 sets of conditions had been despatched ; and two months later , four months after the start of the competition , Hall told the House of Commons that 1,791 had been despatched , of which at least 270 had gone to foreign competitors . |
| 40 | A very old friend of the family wrote to me when each of my parents died , and from her I had learnt that Sarah had decided to have no more children after Emma , and that Emma had gone to medical school so she is presumably now a doctor somewhere . |
| 41 | The point was that their claims had gone to different adjudication officers and they had made different decisions . |
| 42 | His eyes had gone to positive slits by now . |
| 43 | The floors are inexpensively tiled , though they have gone to great lengths to achieve the right effect . |
| 44 | Corporate concern in the US tuna industry has been far more interested in maintaining profits than in saving dolphins , and they have gone to great lengths to protect their commercial interests . |
| 45 | Plus points include the availability of a wide range of standard sizes — you should be able to find at least one to fit your site — and the fact that the manufacturers have gone to great lengths in recent years to improve the poor appearance that older prefabricated sectional buildings traditionally suffered from . |
| 46 | A spokesman said : ‘ They have gone to great lengths to gather information useful to criminals . ’ |
| 47 | However , the hon. Gentleman will know that the Government have gone to great lengths to help the Northern Ireland economy and I am sure that the measures that my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland is taking will continue to alleviate the situation in the Province . |
| 48 | Well of course erm the basis used to be that many courts erm had written above them ‘ Police Court ’ and I think some of the older courts where this was sort of carved in stone may still have this above them , but Magistrates have gone to great lengths erm in recent times to emphasise this is not a police court , this is a magistrates ' court . |
| 49 | A number of companies have gone to great pains to point out to the shareholders that the goodwill adjustment does not affect the company 's net asset value , but Company Reporting named a number of companies that have actively avoided showing the full extent of losses on disposal . |
| 50 | We have gone to great effort over the years to make the festival truly regional . |
| 51 | Because of concern about the trouble , the British authorities have gone to great length to prevent hooligans getting to Italy . |
| 52 | The Bible laws of mikva are so important for women , that women have gone to extraordinary lengths to keep them . |
| 53 | Only two grants have gone to renewable-energy projects . |
| 54 | Or who have gone to other humans to get help either for their own kind or for others with whom they are associated , human or otherwise . |
| 55 | Since it will not breed in this form , it has no sexual equipment ; since it has no cause to attract a mate , it needs no mechanisms to send out call-signals whether by sight , smell or sound , nor any sense organs to receive such messages ; and as its parents have gone to considerable trouble to ensure that when it hatches it is surrounded by the great quantities of the particular food it requires , it needs no wings . |
| 56 | Anthropologists in various parts of the world have found groups of men who have gone to remarkable lengths to modify and improve the sexual equipment with which nature endowed them . |
| 57 | Sequent offers up to 32 processors on its Symmetry line , but the largest systems have gone to scientific users . |
| 58 | The Kenyans have gone to enormous trouble to make this not a murder . ’ |
| 59 | it 's gone , it 's gone to chief execs |
| 60 | But somebody 's gone to considerable lengths to disguise the fact . ’ |