Example sentences of "[verb] so [adv] as [to-vb] that " in BNC.
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1 | He was even prepared to go so far as to admit that monotony was the most comfortable way . |
2 | The recent Report of the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution even goes so far as to recommend that straw burning should be banned in five years time . |
3 | The mitigation of the law was at first carried so far as to sacrifice that object , said J.S. Mill . |
4 | Sensing the dangers of such rivalry , the Communists intensified their attack on the ILP , going so far as to declare that disaffiliation was but a temporary manoeuvre . |
5 | An editorial recently went so far as to say that more important than establishing a framework for research and development was doing something about the failure to disseminate and apply existing knowledge . |
6 | We might even go so far as to say that amplification of deviance among one group rather than among another could simply be due to chance . |
7 | I will go so far as to concede that taken in isolation , ripped away from the defining context of humour and irony and friendship , studied in their literal or surface sense only , then , yes , the words I spoke in that room as Robert stood at the window pretending to take me seriously could be understood to mean that during the past six or seven years I had gone to bed with more than one hundred and fifty prostitutes . |