Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [adv] [subord] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the first three years of the experiment not a single pedestrian was injured seriously enough while crossing the road to feel that it warranted reporting . |
| 2 | In other words , can the web binding production and consumption be conceived as drawn so tight as to collapse the two together ? |
| 3 | With this in mind , a less visually seductive format might well have allowed a more readily comprehensible layout ; serious readers do not object to all illustrations being bound together rather than fragmenting the text in this way . |
| 4 | It had been said in the past that there was a convention that the House of Lords would not pass amendments calculated to alter the kernel of a bill approved by the Commons , but in recent years amendments have gone much further than altering the fine details of the Bill . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | One former American Secretary of State has gone so far as to characterise the Armed Forces as an institution ‘ operating entirely outside Party control ’ . |
| 7 | In the second half of the nineteenth century such sentiments had fostered the growth of a small but vigorous school of Siberian regionalist writers and political activists ( oblastniki ) , some of whom had even gone so far as to envisage the complete political separation of Siberia from Russia and the establishment of a new , independent Siberian republic . |
| 8 | 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 ’ . |
| 9 | Some translators of the Bible have gone so far as to postpone the main verb until the divine fiat : And God said , Let there be light . |
| 10 | José Harris has gone as far as to describe the dispute as ‘ a major conflict of principle ’ between the two boards . |
| 11 | Potrovsky had waxed and polished the car the night before and had even gone as far as to iron the two pennants which flew on either side of the bonnet . |