Example sentences of "go as [adv] as [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | José Harris has gone as far as to describe the dispute as ‘ a major conflict of principle ’ between the two boards . |
| 2 | Barclay 's has gone as far as to create a ‘ high technology ’ unit to examine requests for finance from possible customers . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Eire is planning to use its forthcoming Presidency of the European Commission to press Britain to embark on a major upgrading of road and rail links between North Wales and the Channel Tunnel , and the Shadow Irish Transport Minister Gay Mitchell has gone as far as proposing an Irish Sea Tunnel to be constructed using Channel Tunnel equipment and an allegedly largely Irish Channel Tunnel workforce . |
| 5 | Some schools go as far as appointing a press officer from amongst the staff or the governors . |
| 6 | The Greek governing party , PASOK , went as far as to create a ‘ Green Guard ’ around the Premier Papandreou . |
| 7 | One Columbia University student went as far as writing a paper on the novel and its author and was awarded a respectable grade . |
| 8 | At one point he even went as far as to tell a group of American diplomats that he expected the United States to take over the " primary role " which the British had hitherto held in the Middle East . |
| 9 | One even went as far as giving a story to a newspaper that the couple would share the same bed in Korea . |
| 10 | She did n't go as far as to say a nice warm man to slip into bed with , but that was not far from her mind . |