Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv] [adv] [subord] [to-vb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now , if you had an opportunity of glancing at the leaflet already you will have seen that the leader for this July 's er , weekend is is Mr Henry and , I do n't think I can do any better than to spend two minutes of the time that we 've got in asking Henry if he would say a word or two of introduction to the theme for this year . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | So I think it 's easy to see that religion fulfils this civilizing socially controlling role , but of course , this has been a popular theme in sociological writing in the course of the twentieth century , indeed , you could go so far as to say this , it is has become a cliche , in twentieth century social science . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It 's almost beyond belief that they should go as far as to kill three of our own men . ’ |
| 7 | If it did , Nuttall and McCormick imply that the costs would rise so substantially as to become prohibitive . |