Example sentences of "so far as [to-vb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Trotsky went so far as to call the agreement ‘ an ecclesiastical NEP ’ , implying a similar tolerance to that meted out to ‘ kulaks ’ or to Nepmen , but this was a superficial and short-sighted judgement redolent with propaganda . |
| 2 | Indeed , so fundamental to the outlook of Jacobean Protestants was this identification of the pope with Antichrist that one contemporary went so far as to define a Protestant as one who ‘ can swear the Pope is antichrist and that flesh is good on Friday ’ . |
| 3 | Members of the radical Inter-regional group went so far as to table a motion of no confidence in the government , but a vote on whether to consider this motion was heavily defeated on May 29 . |
| 4 | Danby later insisted that he had never intended things to go " so far as to settle the Crown on the Prince of Orange " . |
| 5 | We should not go so far as to hold a referendum , but the people must have the final say . |
| 6 | Many congratulations and a warm welcome should be given to Dorling Kindersley , the first general publisher to recognise that there is ELT potential in its list and to go so far as to publish an ELT catalogue . |
| 7 | Some even went so far as to stipulate the use of linen in their will : Hannah Deane of High Ongar , Essex , took account of the £5 fine when drawing up her instructions in 1784 : ‘ And I do hereby Order and direct that sum of Ten pound shall be paid to the person who shall … see me Inclosed and laid in my Coffin in Linen and shall give Information and make Oath thereof wheereby the Poor of the parish Will be intitled to the sum of fifty shilling … . ’ |
| 8 | Who else in that distinguished gathering of philosophers , psychologists , veterinary professors and ethologists would desert their dignity so far as to imitate an animal ? |
| 9 | Cusick even goes so far as to venture an empathy between the teams Verity Lambert assembled to work on the series . |
| 10 | Indeed one commentator has gone so far as to describe the DTI 's performance in these cases coupled with its sloppiness in the Barlow Clowes affair and failure to press prosecution over the House of Fraser takeover as ‘ part of a lengthy and dishonourable supine tradition ’ ( Alex Brummer , Guardian , 28.8.90 ) . |
| 11 | Kip Bertram went so far as to describe the letter as ‘ venomous ’ , and Norman Smith , managing director of Total Book Distribution , said it was ‘ insulting and naive ’ . |
| 12 | The system was standardised in the early part of the sixteenth century , and some authorities went so far as to describe the cadency symbols for the ninth son of a ninth son ( an octofoil on an octofoil ) . |
| 13 | I 'd say more than that , in fact I 'd go so far as to mention the name of Blanche Ingram and the word , marriage . |
| 14 | Unfortunately , as has often happened in developing countries as well , he completely underestimated the people 's desire for land , and went so far as to oppose the implementation of the Land Settlement Act . |
| 15 | In the late 1640s and early 1650s , radicals like William Walwyn and Gerrard Winstanley began to express doubts about the doctrine of hell , while the Ranters went so far as to deny the existence of sin , and some early English Unitarians , such as John Bidle , attacked the doctrine of the trinity and denied Christ 's divinity . |
| 16 | The courts have not gone so far as to give a cause of action in damages for the breach of such a promise , but they have refused to allow the party making it to act inconsistently with it . |
| 17 | This conspicuous absence of Dryden , though it helps to show that Pound needed no intermediary in his traffic with Virgil , also exposes a dispiriting limitation to Pound 's taste , so catholic as he meant it to be : he never stretched his originally late-Victorian conditioning so far as to appreciate the masters of the English heroic couplet . |
| 18 | In fact , I 'd go so far as to return a compliment I 've had paid to me by men many times over in my eventful life . |
| 19 | Compaq went so far as to draft the specification which included an ARC-like HAL , or Hardware Abstraction Layer , to separate the value added from the hardware implementation . |
| 20 | Morrow ( 1980:Part 4 ) takes the subordination of text to purpose and prediction so far as to use the questions to construct the text ( through a series of student activities like speed-reading of parts of the text , reordering , and blank-filling ) while the text itself is hidden away at the back of the book for consumption afterwards . |
| 21 | Indeed , the Broadwater Farm Youth Association has expressed its concern about the situation to the police on a number of occasions , and in August 1989 went so far as to close the youth centre on the estate for some time in an effort to stop dealers congregating there . |
| 22 | When his first wife died in 1751 , he went so far as to obtain a licence to marry a certain Hannah Laskey . |
| 23 | In one of her baffling letters Herta goes so far as to question the legality of the work we are doing here . |
| 24 | Again the immigration people questioned him about his occupation , even going so far as to check the word antiquarian in an English-Spanish dictionary . |
| 25 | On at least one occasion , he went so far as to express the hope that his own son would succeed him as monarch . |
| 26 | Moreover , the North American Securities Administration Association has gone so far as to accuse the South Pacific micro-states of Nauru , Vanuatu , Tonga and the Marshall and Northern Mariana Islands of being ‘ international centres of prostitute banking ’ . |
| 27 | In an Assize Sermon delivered at Leicester in 1682 , Thomas Ashenden , rector of Dingley ( Northants ) , even went so far as to accuse the King of being too soft on Dissent : " our present divisions , and our manifold menacing mischiefs " , he argued , " we may chiefly date from the late Toleration " , which " allowances proceed from Royal mercy " , and he claimed that the strength for rebellion had come " from the Breasts of Royal Indulgence " . |
| 28 | Over a hasty but adequate meal , the situation and plans were discussed , Black Agnes approving heartily , almost gleefully , indeed going so far as to add an improvement of her own . |
| 29 | They did not go so far as to learn the language of the peoples they studied , but they did spell out for later writers the ground rules of such research . |
| 30 | The British even , at the eleventh hour , went so far as to change the rules to allow a republic , by definition owing no allegiance to the British Crown , to be a member . |