Example sentences of "[vb -s] go so " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Social imperialism ’ suggests that the main beneficiaries of this policy were British consumers , and indeed one writer has gone so far as to argue a direct link to the Attlee government 's social reforms : ‘ The nationalisations , medical provision and expansion of education so magnanimously legislated by the Labour Ministry were largely achieved because the Bank of England kept the Sterling Area show on the road . ' |
| 2 | What has gone so badly wrong ? |
| 3 | 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 ’ . |
| 4 | G. Kopcke ( Tzedakis and Hallager 1987 ) has gone so far as to suggest that the curious high ‘ rock ’ formation in the centre of the picture may actually represent the tsunami or tidal wave generated by the great Thera eruption of 1470 BC . |
| 5 | One former American Secretary of State has gone so far as to characterise the Armed Forces as an institution ‘ operating entirely outside Party control ’ . |
| 6 | Indeed , Professor Roskell has gone so far as to suggest that the nobility could not be relied upon to attend parliament in the 1350s and 1360s even when they were present in England , and that these parliaments amounted to little more than tax bargaining sessions between the king and the commons . |
| 7 | Charles Rycroft , an eminent contemporary British psychoanalyst , has gone so far as to reject entirely the Freudian theory of the origin and function of dreaming . |
| 8 | This country cost her too much ; indeed , she has gone so far as to refuse to discuss the topic . |
| 9 | The time I know has gone so fast . |
| 10 | One theorist has gone so far as to claim that ‘ the viability of the large corporation with diffuse security ownership is … explained in terms of a model where primary disciplining of managers comes through managerial labor markets , both within and outside of the firm ’ . |
| 11 | 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 ) . |
| 12 | Conran has gone so far as ending catwalk exhibitions totally in favour of presentation by video . |
| 13 | That the programme has gone so well is a measure of the enormous effort put into it by a partnership of centres and SCOTVEC . |
| 14 | The compression of the state pension down to income support levels has gone so far that it has superseded the income support level , so that every pensioner , as of right , should be on income support . |
| 15 | ‘ We have work to do and it is essential that there are no distractions , ’ says Coleman , ‘ I am happy the way our build-up has gone so far but the next ten days or so are obviously the most important in terms of morale and motivation . ’ |
| 16 | But this tip for reasons beyond my knowledge has gone so there 's nothing to be done about it and erm er the last test I had the guy who conducted it said , You 've already got the heart off an average sixty year old who has n't had a heart attack . |
| 17 | This month has gone so quickly it 's difficult to believe it 's over a month since we left the U.K. |
| 18 | ‘ Luney sez you 's gone so ah comes and ah waits . |
| 19 | I 'd like to know exactly why he 's gone so completely off his head . |
| 20 | And you will go around er using this to show people well I 've sold that and that 's mister so and so or that 's such and such business that 's gone so that you can show people that you 've actually sold these . |
| 21 | Yeah yeah , well he 's gone so do n't worry about that . |
| 22 | Yeah , I know , the week 's gone so quickly that 's the trouble ! |
| 23 | The week 's gone so quickly I 've just been sort of , you know . |