Example sentences of "[vb infin] so [adv] as [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | In particularly weak cases the conciliation officer will go so far as to advise the applicant to withdraw the claim . |
| 5 | 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 . |