Example sentences of "go to great lengths [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Nevertheless , although I knew that there would be no Castello di Blandings awaiting me — Eric had always gone to great lengths to tell me that his family was not at all grand or well-off-I said yes . |
| 32 | 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 . |
| 33 | As we will see in Chapter 12 , the courts have also gone to great lengths to make it difficult to bring tort actions against regulatory bodies . |
| 34 | Such technical recommendations are of little practical value and sometimes provoke vigorous protest from professional aviation people , but from the patient painstaking AIB inspector who has gone to great lengths to provide the sheriff 's court with as much guidance , information and advice as he can , there will be little more than a wry smile or shrug of the shoulders . |
| 35 | If there was a strong majority in favour of a particular action , we would go to great lengths to persuade the minority of the error of their ways . |
| 36 | We live in a society which greatly enjoys strawberries — our aesthetic appreciation of them is high and we will go to great lengths to acquire them . |
| 37 | He does indeed go to great lengths to check the credentials of everything on sale at his deli-cum-restaurant-cum off-licence in Berkhamsted , Herts , ( ‘ Berko ’ to the locals ) celebrating its 10th anniversary this month . |
| 38 | Given the information and access responsible suppliers will go to great lengths to solve a real problem up to and even including commissioning full scale research projects . |
| 39 | Adam knew that Elinor would go to great lengths to avoid being called unprofessional . |
| 40 | Dealers , sometimes surreptitiously encouraged by their firms , would go to great lengths to extract information from employees of rival firms . |
| 41 | They also had a deep suspicion about anyone wearing a bandage and would go to great lengths to find out why one was really wearing it . |
| 42 | Hunt supporter Barbara Rich says saboteurs are a dirty , smelly bunch , but they go to great lengths to object to what they consider a barbaric ‘ sport ’ . |
| 43 | As might be expected from the foregoing analysis , an investigation by the DTI Innovation Unit and the Technology Group of the CBI found that innovative ‘ Best Practice ’ companies go to great lengths to generate and capture ideas , from both internal and external sources , with careful attention to the balance of technology push and market pull and the rigorous implementation of screening processes and on-going reviews . |
| 44 | It is equally undeniable that they derive great pleasure from physical confrontations with rival groups of supporters and go to great lengths to evade the authorities and make such confrontations possible . |
| 45 | Prime ministers go to great lengths to preserve public appearances over collective responsibility . |
| 46 | You mention your father 's tax case and you go to great lengths to set the record straight . |
| 47 | Police psychologist Barrie Irving said yesterday : ‘ The women go to great lengths to cover their tracks well in advance . |
| 48 | At the BBC , we try to reproduce sounds as accurately as possible , particularly in wildlife where we go to great lengths to find the right noises to fit the locations and species . |
| 49 | Many of the police series go to great lengths to ensure an authentic feel ( otherwise the companies get shoals of complaints from the policemen who avidly watch such shows , and sometimes begin to model their behaviour on what they see ) . |
| 50 | Wrong ‘ I know they go to great lengths to avoid paying up , but I did n't realise it had got this bad . ’ |
| 51 | Even with the legal penalties that exist , people go to great lengths to avoid paying taxes legally by finding loopholes in the tax laws ; or they evade taxes by illegally cheating the tax authorities . |
| 52 | While manufacturers go to great lengths to produce the many excellent ‘ artificial ’ diets without which the fishkeeping hobby would certainly not have developed to today 's high standards , it is up to the fishkeeper to look more closely at the food requirements of his fish and provide what is necessary . |
| 53 | I think in general by virtue of the fact that we go to great lengths to make sure that people fully understand exactly what they have got I mean we 're not in a in a situation where we want people to think that they 've got something they have n't , which is why we go to the lengths that we do erm to make sure that people are fully aware of what they 've got , and if they 're unhappy with what they 've got then obviously within the fourteen day period we give them the right to cancel . |