Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv] [adv] as [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In particular , the real wage will adjust spontaneously so as to prevent the emergence of excess supply in the labour market . |
| 2 | BELOW Making a detailed scale drawing of a vertical section can take as long as excavating the feature in the first place . |
| 3 | Creating a game from a film costs hundreds of thousands of pounds and can take as long as making the movie . |
| 4 | I 've heard it repeated on the radio recently and even the Secretary of State did n't go so far as to use the ninety percent figure but was talking about the seriously mentally ill and the not so seriously mentally ill . |
| 5 | I 'd say more than that , in fact I 'd go so far as to mention the name of Blanche Ingram and the word , marriage . |
| 6 | They did not go so far as to learn the language of the peoples they studied , but they did spell out for later writers the ground rules of such research . |
| 7 | In particularly weak cases the conciliation officer will go so far as to advise the applicant to withdraw the claim . |
| 8 | A punch should not extend so far as to throw the puncher off balance , nor should a block be carried more than six inches above the head . |