Example sentences of "have gone [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With the launch of the single market programme , all have gone on massive spending sprees . |
| 2 | Smith , in India to watch both the Madras match and Friday 's final Test at Bombay said : ‘ One of the big reasons we have gone for four-day championship cricket is that it will encourage spinners to play a bigger part in our domestic game . ’ |
| 3 | The floors are inexpensively tiled , though they have gone to great lengths to achieve the right effect . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | A spokesman said : ‘ They have gone to great lengths to gather information useful to criminals . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | We have gone to great effort over the years to make the festival truly regional . |
| 11 | Because of concern about the trouble , the British authorities have gone to great length to prevent hooligans getting to Italy . |
| 12 | The Bible laws of mikva are so important for women , that women have gone to extraordinary lengths to keep them . |
| 13 | Only two grants have gone to renewable-energy projects . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Sequent offers up to 32 processors on its Symmetry line , but the largest systems have gone to scientific users . |
| 18 | The Kenyans have gone to enormous trouble to make this not a murder . ’ |
| 19 | While I owe much to that tradition and trust that I am still persona grata within it , in many respects I have gone beyond Evangelical thought on matters to do with the Church and sacraments . |
| 20 | Some examples that we 'll look at have gone beyond familiar cuckooism to fulfil the wildest fantasies that The Extended Phenotype might have inspired . |
| 21 | Few have gone through aerobatic training , and the modern tendency is to be happy with a few hours of stall avoidance training and little , if any , spinning . |
| 22 | As in other disciplines , theories of language learning have gone through periodic changes , often with an over-emphasis on one aspect or anxiety , which results from the pendulum swinging from one extreme to another . |
| 23 | Meanwhile , OpenVMS and its companion piece the security-enhanced SEVMS have gone into Formal Evaluation aiming at C2 and B1 certification respectively . |
| 24 | Billions of pounds have gone into improving air , rail and underground links . |
| 25 | Altogether sixty three Halton Apprentices have gone from junior technician to High rank . |