Example sentences of "go are " in BNC.
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| 31 | Gone are the days when professionals left the business of fees , commissions , variation charges , reimbursables and the rest to underlings whilst they got on with the interesting work . |
| 32 | Gone are the days when the , existence of a signed building contract merely reflected a formality required by prudent businessmen . |
| 33 | Gone are the days of returnable bottles and jars . |
| 34 | Gone are the days when fruit and vegetables were eaten only in the area and season in which they were harvested , and a few put aside for home pickling or preserving . |
| 35 | ‘ Gone are the days when we used to crumble half a ola of it into a chillim of tobacco . ’ |
| 36 | Gone are the days when a couple furnished their house from top to bottom in a style that fitted in with the tastes of friends , neighbours , colleagues at work , or cronies down at the pub or tennis club . |
| 37 | Gone are the concept albums and such thirty-minute epics as Supper 's Ready , to be replaced by shorter , straight-to-the-point material like Tonight , Tonight , Tonight and the chart hit I Ca n't Dance . |
| 38 | Gone are the days when all Christmas school plays focused on the Nativity . |
| 39 | GONE are the days when giving a child a book was seen as a somewhat unimaginative Christmas present . |
| 40 | Gone are the days when the average man would be happy with soap on a rope in his Christmas stocking . |
| 41 | Gone are the days when a hand-painted sign advertising a ‘ Real working farm experience ’ meant the townie parents paid £10 and got to look at an old plough while their children cuddled a fat , flop-eared rabbit . |
| 42 | Gone are the days of deputation . |
| 43 | Gone are the days of deputation . |
| 44 | Gone are the ties round the feet and in comes a full , loosely fitting single-piece garment , pleated at the neck but still with the top-knot ; the face is completely exposed , showing the features in a peaceful attitude of repose , the limbs no longer with a stiff formality but a far more relaxed naturalism . |
| 45 | Sandwiches are often the easiest and most varied choice available at the local snack bar Gone are the days when a British sandwich meant two dried and curled slices of white bread with an indeterminate piece of pinkish meat lost somewhere in between . |
| 46 | Gone are the days when you had to wear cosmetic colours that matched your brows or hair . |
| 47 | Gone are the days of AEC . |
| 48 | Gone are the days when the need for air gaps at the side and back of the cooker spoiled the lines of your kitchen . |
| 49 | Gone are the days when only the Madonnas of the world get to preen in public . |
| 50 | Gone are those things we loved to hate . |
| 51 | ‘ Gone are the days of dole and he 's pissed off . ’ |
| 52 | Gone are the days when guys thought it was girlie to be groomed , the new man of the 90's makes a noise about the fact that he knows how to look good and what 's more these guys now have more beautifying products than old socks ! |
| 53 | Gone are the days when you were likely to be alone on the rim path , but if the five miles escarpment is included as part of a longer circuit of the vast moorland , walkers seeking solitude will find their fair share — and a good test of their navigation skills . |
| 54 | Gone are the days when a South African lock will rise like a Saturn Five , defying gravity for what seemed like an eternity , to pluck the ball two-handed and present it to the lucky scrum-half . |
| 55 | ‘ Gone are the days when you could buy what you wanted with a pair of Levi jeans and a Jerry Lee Lewis album , ’ commented Myeloski . |
| 56 | Gone are the days when a set of weak states acted as enticement to the invasion of European Russia by outside powers . |
| 57 | ‘ Gone are the days of Jif and dusters . |
| 58 | They expect somebody else to be responsible ’ and it was a cause for great sorrow that ‘ Gone are the days of Queen Victoria . ’ |
| 59 | There was no comfort in that result , a vote against industrial action , even though it confirmed the suspicion that gone are the old ways of fighting the class war that we 've all been raised on and still have the power to excite me . |
| 60 | Gone are the days of the rock-hard chamois leather . |