Example sentences of "go as [adv] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 My pride of race did n't go as deep as my fear of disapproval .
2 Cos you do n't go as slow as this , even round here something like that Ann .
3 What started out as an objective assessment like ‘ That lesson did n't go as well as I had expected ’ gets recast as ‘ I made a mistake ’ which leads to ‘ I 'm a poor teacher ’ and even ‘ I 'm a failure ( as a person ) ’ .
4 I think it still is the way forward and I do n't think it was so much that things went wrong as that they did n't go as well as we had hoped for the women elections to the shadow cabinet .
5 Even from the beginning she had lain naked and adoring under the moon and Fenna could come and go as easily as the clouds did .
6 Let him go … try and let him go as easily as you let me go . ’
7 But yesterday organiers decided competitors could go as fast as they like .
8 They can go as fast as they want and there will be no restrictions .
9 She has such a thirst after knowledge that the more she knows , I verily think the humbler she is , and I can not help letting go as fast as she pulls as my son used to do to his kite .
10 " shall I go as fast as a whirlwind , as fast as thought , or as fast as a bird ? "
11 He says sometimes it 's a pain cos you get up and if I 'm late I 've got to rush around and go as fast as I can to school and you get cold and your fingers start freezing up so it 's not much fun .
12 In fact , I would go as far as to say he 's a slob .
13 The party could only go as far as the unions would allow and their influence was apparent at all levels .
14 ‘ You can go as far as Burnley if you 're old or disabled . ’
15 Not many heads would go as far as one who insists that male members of staff must wear their jackets in classrooms even on the warmest of days .
16 It 's almost beyond belief that they should go as far as to kill three of our own men . ’
17 The list is endless and I would go as far as to say virtually every ‘ Gold Seal ’ is worth its weight in gold .
18 I recognise that this may not go as far as librarians would wish .
19 I would not go as far as one group which makes ‘ coupleness and a sense of call in husband and wife ’ one of their ten non-negotiables for church planters .
20 The indecent assaults did not go as far as the rapes but were ‘ equally repulsive ’ .
21 One piece of good news is that Clinton has stated that he will not go as far as a recent legislative proposal , which would have required certain foreign-owned firms and branches to report a minimum amount of US taxable income .
22 ‘ We will only go as far as suggesting some of the market leaders like Sage and Pegasus , then we let the customers decide ’ .
23 I would go as far as to argue that , however well-intentioned and humanitarian the people who undertake a socialist revolution , the logic of their ideology , which is of necessity reflected in the institutions which they create , makes totalitarianism inevitable .
24 However , there are fears that the chancellor will not dare go as far as his critics wish and instead stick to a one per cent cut .
25 One Latin American country drew up guidelines which specified that torturers must be able to control themselves ; must go as far as is necessary and no further ; and must have goals that are both important and impersonal .
26 ‘ I would n't go as far as that . ’
27 ‘ I would n't go as far as to say that but I 'll admit you were in a rather nasty pickle . ’
28 The question of images in churches was further addressed by two sets of injunctions issued by Cromwell in 1536 and 1538 , but even here the reforms did not go as far as some iconophobes would have liked , as they drew back from condemning all images and denounced only those that encouraged ‘ superstition and hypocrisy ’ and ‘ that most detestable sin of idolatry ’ .
29 ‘ We 'll go as far as the village , ’ Sharpe said .
30 Then he looked up with a solemn expression and replied : ‘ Well , I would n't go as far as that . ’
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