Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] go so [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only wingers Rory Underwood and Simon Halliday went so far as to deliver confirmation of their departures from the international scene after the 24–0 win against Wales at Twickenham on Saturday . |
| 2 | Archbishop Fisher went so far as to tell him that he was a possible future Archbishop of Canterbury . |
| 3 | Archbishop Fisher went so far as to write a very tough letter to the editor in defence of Ramsey . |
| 4 | On two occasions Shah Jehan went so far as to declare Dara his desired successor , while adding that the matter rested in the hands of Allah . |
| 5 | Kip Bertram went so far as to describe the letter as ‘ venomous ’ , and Norman Smith , managing director of Total Book Distribution , said it was ‘ insulting and naive ’ . |
| 6 | Desmond Heap , in his 1955 presidential address to the ( then ) Town Planning Institute went so far as to declare that the preservation of Green belts was ‘ the very raison d'etre of town and country planning ’ . |
| 7 | The Lewisham Council went so far as to apply to the High Court for an Order of Mandamus requiring the Commissioner of Police to seek to have the march banned . |
| 8 | John Maynard Smith went so far as to submit the super-forgiving Tit for Two Tats . |
| 9 | Peter Robinson went so far as to say that until late 1974 ‘ there was no party ’ . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . ’ |
| 12 | Certainly in recent years Pound 's interest in mystery-cults has been more than antiquarian ; in ‘ was Erigena ours ? ’ he asks whether the philosopher Scotus Erigena was one of the Eleusinian brotherhood , and ‘ ours ’ can be given full weight — Noel Stock goes so far as to claim ( op. cit. p.22 ) that some of the obscurity of these later Cantos is deliberate and arcane — ‘ he writes about them as an initiate in words that are both ‘ published and not published ’ … ’ . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | In one of her baffling letters Herta goes so far as to question the legality of the work we are doing here . |
| 15 | The publisher Moxon went so far as to put out an edition of the Shelley forgeries , with an introduction by Robert Browning . |
| 16 | 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 ’ . |
| 17 | Other jingo socialists went so far as to attribute the same view to Winston Churchill , quoting him as saying : |