Example sentences of "[vb pp] so [adv] as [to-vb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , even by the middle years of the nineteenth century an industrial city like Manchester had not expanded so far as to prevent its mill workers walking in the country on Sundays . |
| 2 | No , I must say that things have now gone so far as to justify me in feeling considerable uneasiness about his continued absence . ’ |
| 3 | She would not have gone so far as to define it as softness . |
| 4 | Louise had gone so far as to allow him access to her papers and portfolio : he and Simon Scher were working on them now . |
| 5 | It had once even gone so far as to empty him on to the floor for voicing an intolerant opinion on the Jesuits . |