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

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1 Equity says no , and soon goes so far as to lay down a rule that a mortgage is a mere security for money , and something quite different from a genuine transfer of the ownership .
2 The wartime bombers did n't seem to care what went up ; by contrast the PIRA did and cared so deliberately as to set out selectively to destroy what is now an illusion — the sanctity of hospital in which , regardless of loyalty or background , so many thousands of victims of our vicious little civil war have received care since those nights in August 1969 .
3 And anyway , a few minutes studying the front panel should begin the information digestion process , and Boogie 's operating manual has been written so simply as to lead even the most nervous neophyte through the mire unscathed .
4 The better-known Cabinet Ministers moved in a stately fashion as if speed of foot might trample accidentally a party worker bent upon homage ; better to tread slowly so as to receive fittingly the admiration of many .
5 By the following winter Michael Horovitz 's New Departures magazine had advanced so far as to put on a live performance at the same venue .
6 It can not be said that the result was entirely logical , and one is tempted to agree with a famous last-century astronomer , Sir John Herschel , that the constellations seem to have been drawn up so as to cause as much inconvenience as possible , but the system has become so well established that it is unlikely to be altered now .
7 She had got as far as pulling out her suitcase , which looked scruffier than ever now that her eyes had accustomed themselves to the comfortable luxury of Luke Hunter 's flat , and laying it open on the bed before something inside her rebelled .
8 In Filliter v. Phippard the word ‘ accidentally ’ was interpreted restrictively so as to cover only ‘ a fire produced by mere chance or incapable of being traced to any cause . ’
9 She ought to unpack , but she only got as far as getting out Ricky 's photograph in its blue silk frame and putting it beside the bed .
10 And this morning we got as far as did n't we ?
11 He resigned as Foreign Minister in late October , and secretarial staff got as far as clearing out his offices .
12 They can be raised or lowered as well as moved horizontally from controls on the platform .
13 ‘ We even went so far as to put together a group and do some touring ; we did a club tour of the States and a mini-tour in Japan , too .
14 The publisher Moxon went so far as to put out an edition of the Shelley forgeries , with an introduction by Robert Browning .
15 Through some of his paintings of 1912 Picasso went so far as to say candidly to the spectator , ‘ j'aime Eva ’ ; at the same time he wrote to Kahnweiler of Eva , ‘ I love her very much and I shall write it on my paintings . ’
16 Leaving no stone unturned for its Destiny launch , the telephone company offshoot went so far as to score still another first , announcing SVR4.2 simultaneously in Europe , the Far East , the US and Russia , reportedly at a Unix user group meeting , facilitated by the famed Esther Dyson .
17 At the end of 1854 another Slavophile , Iurii Samarin , went so far as to speak up for peasants who murdered their landlords .
18 Surely they would n't go so far as to break in ?
19 by no means ‘ lightly advancing thro ’ her star-trimm 'd crowd' — he had even gone so far as to look up Lantor 's lines about Ianthe — but perhaps women could n't be expected always to live up to what poets wrote about them .
20 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 .
21 Some dealers have even gone so far as to pass off their businesses as zoos ( see BBC WILDLIFE , November , p798 ) .
22 The list is endless and I would go as far as to say virtually every ‘ Gold Seal ’ is worth its weight in gold .
23 To partake in that utterance must demand superhuman courage , courage from the divine , an ability to think so intensely as to die even from pure thought — to die a death ordained , not for self-glorification , a significant and saving death .
24 Should it fail so spectacularly as to break up , the ‘ specialist in unpaid work ’ is left with depleted earning power .
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