Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] go so [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One ARENA spokesman has even gone so far as to suggest that there are nine to ten women in the party for every man . |
| 2 | One such protagonist has recently gone so far as to claim that Aristotle 's Phantasmata — the mental images that are involved in most or all mental activities — are identical with the symbols on which computational procedures are carried out . |
| 3 | Even the otherwise haughty Surrey committee was moved to complain about this lack of common courtesy , though naturally they did not go so far as to suggest meals should be taken in common . |
| 4 | Predictably , she was not sympathetic to the boisterous ways of a young teenager , though she did not go so far as a Mrs Dudley who complained to Bloomsbury House that one of her fifteen-year-old lodgers , Willy , had ‘ broken the beading on a wardrobe and had also broken a chair ’ , offences which most parents of healthy teenagers would have accepted as part of growing up . |
| 5 | He did not go so far as to offer to guide them onward to Gilsland , by night , since that would have been to insult the Armstrongs , Jardines and Johnstones . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | In that particular case the judges pronounced in general on the right of free speech , but did not go so far as to appoint experts to ascertain whether the accused was right in his criticism or not ( see The Art Newspaper No.14 , January 1992 , p.1 ) . |
| 8 | Most recent historians would agree that the Hammonds were much too reluctant to accept that there was even serious talk of revolution , although the majority do not go so far as Thompson in their assessment of the seriousness of the threat . |
| 9 | Indeed it seems that girls very quickly replaced boys at this task : " Evidently [ the boys " ] tongues do not go so glibly as the girls , " as the STC was already saying as early as 1875 , " for in most of the offices where girls are employed , reading boys are now unknown . " |
| 10 | She did n't go so far as to give me her telephone number , but I prudently copied it from the instrument at a point during the interview when she was distracted : when one of Brenda 's children had somehow slipped into the room to find a drum stacked halfway down a pile of similar toys . |
| 11 | I 've heard it repeated on the radio recently and even the Secretary of State did n't go so far as to use the ninety percent figure but was talking about the seriously mentally ill and the not so seriously mentally ill . |
| 12 | Although Johnson does not go so far as to claim that the affectless society was responsible for the Moors Murders , she does feel able to argue that the general atmosphere in society at the time had ‘ infected ’ the social system , and that ‘ Brady possibly , Hindley almost certainly , have been victims of fallout ’ . |
| 13 | Fitzgerald herself does not go so far as to suggest that they should not be used at all . |
| 14 | Christine Brooke-Rose does not go so far as to disavow authorial creativity altogether , but she too sees technology as the possible key to a breakthrough in how we think about the human subject . |
| 15 | However he does not go so far as to paraphrase by " see that " , as does Palmer . |
| 16 | It was the first time that the chubby presenter , the ravages of drink clear in the dark bags under his eyes , had ever gone so far and admitted in public his total dependence . |
| 17 | In the second half of the nineteenth century such sentiments had fostered the growth of a small but vigorous school of Siberian regionalist writers and political activists ( oblastniki ) , some of whom had even gone so far as to envisage the complete political separation of Siberia from Russia and the establishment of a new , independent Siberian republic . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | One bar had even gone so far as to put a few tables outside , and on impulse Zen settled down to enjoy the sunlight and watch the show on the Corso . |
| 20 | At present the authorities have not gone so far as this . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | No , I must say that things have now gone so far as to justify me in feeling considerable uneasiness about his continued absence . ’ |
| 23 | Some ingenious souls have even gone so far as to suggest that the correct attitude to fat , which makes sense in nutritional , agronomic and culinary terms is to aim in general at eating a low-fat diet , and at one in which most of the fat in the diet is polyunsaturated : but to ensure that the small amount of saturated fat that did creep in is as delectable as possible , which , of course , with slight deference to beef dripping , means butter . |
| 24 | Some dealers have even gone so far as to pass off their businesses as zoos ( see BBC WILDLIFE , November , p798 ) . |