Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [adv] [conj] [verb] that " 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 | 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 . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | ‘ For now , it seems , the prince has revealed to Sir Thomas the depth of his regard for you — even going so far as to say that if in due course he may not marry yourself , he will remain unwed . |
17 | This has usually been rejected , on the grounds that other sources suggest that Hastings was executed rather than murdered-Armstrong going so far as to suggest that such a murder would be un-English and that Mancini has been led astray by Italian precedents . |
18 | This has usually been rejected , on the grounds that other sources suggest that Hastings was executed rather than murdered-Armstrong going so far as to suggest that such a murder would be un-English and that Mancini has been led astray by Italian precedents . |
19 | Anyway , Great-Aunt Jane shared everyone 's low opinion of John Bell for a time , even going as far as to declare that he was n't right in his head . |
20 | Some of the delayed motorists were distinctly lacking in respect , one going as far as to say that if he were going to get buried he 'd have a bit more consideration for other road users . |
21 | By next morning I 'd only got as far as realising that I had to talk you round . ’ |
22 | But Sir Alan , Flag Officer at Plymouth 's naval base , denies going too fast and says that the commodore 's yacht was not moored properly . |
23 | The sympathy of Diodorus — that is , of Posidonius — stretches so far as to admit that even during the war the slaves spared some of the owners who had been kind to them . |
24 | Dally goes as far as to state that it indicates a bad prognosis for the disease , but I am glad to be able to report that although my jealousy continued into my adolescence , including the anorexic period , it did not deter my recovery , and that my sisters and I are now the best of friends . |
25 | And Monachesi ( 1960 , p.49 ) goes as far as to say that ‘ The reader will find proposed in his essay practically all of the important reforms in the administration of criminal justice and in penology which have been achieved in the civilised world since 1764 ’ . |
26 | John even goes as far as to boast that The Borrowers is breaking new ground : ‘ In fact , some of the things we can now do make the special effects in Star Wars look prehistoric . ’ |
27 | Another Latin American writer , José P. Miranda , goes even further and argues that God ‘ is knowable exclusively in the cry of the poor and the weak who seek justice ’ . |
28 | We go so far as to say that in choice of partner it is a wise unconscious that falls in love with and marries its own unrecognized problem and then in marriage recreates the problematic situation . |
29 | SSL is claimed to be very difficult for ( hearing ) adults to learn ; some go so far as to say that it is impossible . |
30 | In fact some pro-choice advocates go so far as to deny that abortion is a moral issue at all — a favourite slogan for a while was ‘ abortion is a health issue , not a moral issue ’ . |