Example sentences of "have gone to [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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31 Here , someone had gone to considerable lengths to get the cushions toning in nicely with the curtains .
32 Europe now produces more food than she needs and has for some years been supporting a section of industry that provides employment for less than 1% of our National workforce ; good for British agriculture , but how much better if the support had gone to those industries that took up a greater proportion of the work force , i.e. the engineers with 10% .
33 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 .
34 Helen had gone to some lengths over the picnic ; the recipe book included a relevant section , she discovered .
35 His eyes had gone to positive slits by now .
36 The floors are inexpensively tiled , though they have gone to great lengths to achieve the right effect .
37 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 .
38 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 .
39 A spokesman said : ‘ They have gone to great lengths to gather information useful to criminals . ’
40 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 .
41 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 .
42 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 .
43 The Bible laws of mikva are so important for women , that women have gone to extraordinary lengths to keep them .
44 Only two grants have gone to renewable-energy projects .
45 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 .
46 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 .
47 Sequent offers up to 32 processors on its Symmetry line , but the largest systems have gone to scientific users .
48 it 's gone , it 's gone to chief execs
49 But somebody 's gone to considerable lengths to disguise the fact . ’
50 When Queenie talks about the increased expenditure on recreation from nineteen eighty to now , that 's quite right , there has been a huge increase in spending , and that 's because the Labour Council was committed to improving recreation facilities in the City , and it did n't continue the appalling record that the Conservative administration had had before of virtually no recreational facilities , it invested in recreation facilities — you listed them yourself — and of course those facilities have to be paid for and on when we have stood for election we 've always made it clear that we want to provide quality services , but of course that they have to be paid for , and so the second point that you then made was that , you know , our budget 's gone up beyond belief , well I mean this year it 's being cut by two million pounds , last year it was a standstill budget , and erm that has been done at a time when in fact Central Government has been transferring responsibilities from Central Government onto Local Government without increasing , indeed at the same time decreasing the amount of Central Government grant that 's gone to local councils .
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