Example sentences of "so far as [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 However , as the results of the first inspections started to come in the seriousness of the problem was realised and the US authorities eventually went so far as to call for the use of specially made ultrasonic probes for detecting cracks round the fastener holes .
2 In practice the risk of default of non repayment is nil so far as lending to the government is concerned .
3 North once told Secord that he had gone so far as to mention to the President that the Ayatollah was helping the contras .
4 The writer Valentin Rasputin , reflecting some of these concerns , went so far as to complain at the Congress of People 's Deputies in 1989 of ‘ Russophobia ’ on the part of other nationalities .
5 The Lewisham Council went so far as to apply to the High Court for an Order of Mandamus requiring the Commissioner of Police to seek to have the march banned .
6 Peel reckoned with the prospect of violent conflict between the Government and the trade unions ; and went so far as to enquire into the practicability of organizing the middle classes against them .
7 He went so far as to bang on the door of Evert 's home in an effort to see Steffi .
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