Example sentences of "[vb infin] so [adv] as [verb] [art] " 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 | In fact , I 'd go so far as to return a compliment I 've had paid to me by men many times over in my eventful life . |
| 4 | We should not go so far as to hold a referendum , but the people must have the final say . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | In particularly weak cases the conciliation officer will go so far as to advise the applicant to withdraw the claim . |
| 7 | the right of privacy did not extend so far as to confer a protected right on consenting adults to pursue their own choice in the matter of watching obscene and pornographic motion pictures within a theatre … [ even one ] not open to minors and which gave patrons due notice of the kind of entertainment provided . |
| 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 . |