Example sentences of "have gone so [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That the programme has gone so well is a measure of the enormous effort put into it by a partnership of centres and SCOTVEC . |
| 2 | The time I know has gone so fast . |
| 3 | What has gone so badly wrong ? |
| 4 | This month has gone so quickly it 's difficult to believe it 's over a month since we left the U.K. |
| 5 | ‘ Social imperialism ’ suggests that the main beneficiaries of this policy were British consumers , and indeed one writer has gone so far as to argue a direct link to the Attlee government 's social reforms : ‘ The nationalisations , medical provision and expansion of education so magnanimously legislated by the Labour Ministry were largely achieved because the Bank of England kept the Sterling Area show on the road . ' |
| 6 | Moreover , the North American Securities Administration Association has gone so far as to accuse the South Pacific micro-states of Nauru , Vanuatu , Tonga and the Marshall and Northern Mariana Islands of being ‘ international centres of prostitute banking ’ . |
| 7 | G. Kopcke ( Tzedakis and Hallager 1987 ) has gone so far as to suggest that the curious high ‘ rock ’ formation in the centre of the picture may actually represent the tsunami or tidal wave generated by the great Thera eruption of 1470 BC . |
| 8 | One former American Secretary of State has gone so far as to characterise the Armed Forces as an institution ‘ operating entirely outside Party control ’ . |
| 9 | Indeed , Professor Roskell has gone so far as to suggest that the nobility could not be relied upon to attend parliament in the 1350s and 1360s even when they were present in England , and that these parliaments amounted to little more than tax bargaining sessions between the king and the commons . |
| 10 | Charles Rycroft , an eminent contemporary British psychoanalyst , has gone so far as to reject entirely the Freudian theory of the origin and function of dreaming . |
| 11 | This country cost her too much ; indeed , she has gone so far as to refuse to discuss the topic . |
| 12 | One theorist has gone so far as to claim that ‘ the viability of the large corporation with diffuse security ownership is … explained in terms of a model where primary disciplining of managers comes through managerial labor markets , both within and outside of the firm ’ . |
| 13 | Indeed one commentator has gone so far as to describe the DTI 's performance in these cases coupled with its sloppiness in the Barlow Clowes affair and failure to press prosecution over the House of Fraser takeover as ‘ part of a lengthy and dishonourable supine tradition ’ ( Alex Brummer , Guardian , 28.8.90 ) . |
| 14 | Conran has gone so far as ending catwalk exhibitions totally in favour of presentation by video . |
| 15 | The compression of the state pension down to income support levels has gone so far that it has superseded the income support level , so that every pensioner , as of right , should be on income support . |
| 16 | ‘ We have work to do and it is essential that there are no distractions , ’ says Coleman , ‘ I am happy the way our build-up has gone so far but the next ten days or so are obviously the most important in terms of morale and motivation . ’ |
| 17 | You just feel United what , were two nil down after fourteen minutes erm things really could have gone so badly for them , but they held firm , they got back into the game and full credit to all of them . |
| 18 | The gamble had worked , when a dozen different things could have gone so terribly wrong . |
| 19 | I am not sure she could actually have gone so far as to say things like : ‘ these errors may be trivial in themselves , but you must yourself realize their larger significance ’ . |
| 20 | Acheson , as acting Secretary of State , may not have gone so far ; although just before the war began , when it looked as if Moffat was going to meet Ho in Hanoi , Acheson asked him to ‘ keep in mind Ho 's clear record as agent international communism , absence evidence recantation Moscow affiliations … and support Ho receiving [ from ] French Communist Party . ’ |
| 21 | She would not have gone so far as to define it as softness . |
| 22 | It seemed to John le Grant that having gone so far , this thought , at least , must be completed . |
| 23 | Between 1856 and 1859 he travelled to Palestine and Syria and up the Nile beyond the sixth cataract ; he believed he was only the second European to have gone so far . |
| 24 | Although a degree of corruption was inevitable , it seems in Æthelred 's reign to have gone so far beyond what many of his subjects considered acceptable that it was their main preoccupation when they considered having him back . |
| 25 | The eldest Miss Fricker never forgot the arrival of the travel-weary student whose brilliant reputation had gone so powerfully before him . |
| 26 | And why not , when the afternoon had gone so well ? |
| 27 | Battle ‘ You ca n't be disappointed by a run like that , ’ said the jockey after User Friendly 's head-to-head battle with Subotica had gone so narrowly the wrong way for her army of fans . |
| 28 | Mrs Brooks wondered who this morning 's visitor was , and where Mrs d'Urberville had gone so early . |
| 29 | Everything had gone so smoothly . |
| 30 | North once told Secord that he had gone so far as to mention to the President that the Ayatollah was helping the contras . |