Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [adv] [conj] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 He goes so far as to claim that this form of control is now ‘ characteristic of the majority of enterprises in the USA and Britain ’ , thereby denying the predominance of the management control form .
2 I would wager that he goes so far as to say that I broke down in his room , stuttering out the words of my so-called confession between chokes and tears , unable to speak properly .
3 In fact , the Committee goes so far as to assert that business and industry have no distinctive educational needs , and is thereby able to collapse point 2 in its terms of reference ( " the needs of business , the professions and the public services " ) into point 1 ( " the requirements of a liberal education " ) .
4 Blondel in his study Political Parties : A Genuine Case for Discontent ? claims that " in the great majority of cases programmes are unclear , often limited in scope , and not closely connected to the goals which the party proclaims " and he goes so far as to assert that " on balance parties do not really have programmes " .
5 the Victoria County History goes so far as to suggest that the early nineteenth century prosperity of Leicester , based partly on the transport of hosiery goods by canal to London was ‘ probably due in no small degree to the fact that from 1802 onwards the development of communication had largely been completed . ’
6 Gyford ( 1985b , p. 27 ) goes so far as to suggest that local government reorganization was one of the reasons for moves to the left outside London , where older councillors were replaced not by the hoped for technocrats waiting in the wings , but instead often by representatives of Labour 's new left .
7 However Ingres reports increasing interest from other sectors and goes so far as to suggest that the Enhanced Security features may become an optional part of the standard Ingres database in the release after next .
8 The story goes so far as to suggest that Hewlett-Packard threatened to resign from OSF over the pace of development but changed its mind .
9 Indeed , Eisenman goes so far as to suggest that the families of Jesus and John the Baptist may even have been related to that of Judas of Galilee , leader of the Zealots at the time of Jesus 's birth .
10 Clements ( 1978 ) goes so far as to suggest that this Act may precipitate the demise of agricultural tied cottages .
11 You do n't want to be the one who tells your boss that er a production line has broken down again or y'know that they 've failed to meet their sales targets for the third month running , whatever it is , okay ?
12 It really must be be for the churches and the families themselves to go much further and to instruct if that is the er what the Noble Lord is hinting at , at erm promoting belief .
13 ‘ He used to go down there and stand and look at the frieze Bulkeley was carving ; the one that will surmount the cart and later be hung in the chantry chapel at the other end of this house .
14 But I would very much , with the land owners , like to go down there and see and , and then try and negotiate a possibility for right of way across
15 A leading pay analysis company , Income Data Services , predicts that the incidence of pay freezes lasting a year or more is likely to increase still further and says that pay cuts are also becoming more common , particularly in vulnerable sectors like construction and engineering .
16 It is a threat because the Government have sat back willingly and said that they do not care if another 30 million tonnes of coal is taken out of the take and if there are to be gas-fired power stations .
17 So we got Rose out here and did as he said and by gaw it did the trick .
18 As regards the timing of the announcement , the Directors , in consultation with Unions and personnel professionals , decided that those affected would want to know immediately rather than wait until after the Christmas holiday to be told .
19 If they could n't get on , they put in somewhere and waited until they could , their boats designed to take the ground almost anywhere .
20 Yeah Jim came over before and said that he was er going off to do work tonight .
21 It is of course important that growth in size be linked to growth in maturity , otherwise we may simply see the fulfilment of Jesus ' warning about the seed sown on the rock , which shoots up fast but withers because its roots are not deep enough .
22 He went past the bo , my brother wanted dropped off , it was a one way street he went the way down came back up and parked and by the time he come up and parked it was thirty P extra !
23 Needless to say , on recordings which have a substantial musical output below 50Hz — the organ perhaps the prime example — the effect is felt as well as heard since the 103/4 can move a great deal of air .
24 The end came even earlier than planned and in May 1968 the OCU ceased flying from Bassingbourn saying farewell to this historic station on the 19th and flying to their new home at Cottesmore .
25 Sensing another Hurley enterprise that would interest Donleavy , Coleman poked around discreetly and discovered that Eurame had supplied , or was in process of supplying , copies of this software to other national police and military forces in the region , including those of Egypt , Syria , Pakistan , Turkey , Kuwait , Israel , Jordan , Iran and Iraq .
26 He can do no better than argue that it involves apprehending things simultaneously rather than in succession though he does not explain how the successful mystic can transcend the limits of the magic number seven , which most psychologists agree is the maximum number of entities that can simultaneously be held before the mind .
27 In the middle of the nineteenth century Faraday ( 1791–1867 ) , one of the wisest of men , could do no better than to say that the strength of solids was due to the cohesion between their fine particles and that the subject was a very interesting one .
28 I want to go home now and think and think about all the things I 've heard this afternoon . ’
29 Some favour legislation , Steve Scrutton going so far as to argue that the general term ‘ age ’ should never be used in legislation as a shorthand term to denote frailty or dependence .
30 But , as Mr Nearn points out , it is a driver 's car , and motoring journalists have heaped it with praise for many years , one even going so far as to say that your smile ‘ will need surgically removing ’ after driving one .
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