Example sentences of "[pers pn] goes [adv] far [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You would not think so after reading the paper by Deborah Tannen , of Georgetown University , whose study of repetition in conversation in Language for 1987 she goes so far as to subtitle ‘ towards a poetic of talk ’ . |
| 2 | It goes as far as it can and waits there for a while , its big eyes staring up , tantalized . |
| 3 | We do not believe , however , that it goes as far as is necessary in embracing demand management and sustainability . |
| 4 | We do not believe , however , that it goes as far as is necessary in embracing demand management and sustainability . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | His opinions , he knows , are not shared by fellow portrait painters — he goes so far as to describe ‘ the rest ’ as producing ‘ old hat , boring , herd-of-sheep painting ’ , too preoccupied with imbuing a portrait with the sitter 's character . |
| 8 | 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 " . |