Example sentences of "would [adv] [vb infin] [adv] [adv] as " in BNC.
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1 | The Conservatives would not always win under the electoral system of 1918 , but they would rarely do so badly as to allow anyone else to win . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | Certainly , it is important to study bureaucracies as institutions in their own right , even if we would not go as far as the poet Alexander Pope who wrote : |
4 | Even now , I would not go so far as to say it is a bad staff plan ; after all , it enables a staff of four to cover an unexpected amount of ground . |
5 | Dhanraj began by stating unequivocally that she saw film-making as a tool for socio-political challenge ( she would not go so far as to say change ) and that documentary was best suited to this purpose . |
6 | That this Second World War would not last so long as the First , and even that it might not be a war on such a world-scale , were legitimate presumptions at the time , and Eliot was firmly of the opinion that we should be thinking then and there of the world which would finally emerge . |
7 | And he said his company 's 99p set of earrings would not last as long as a Marks and Spencer prawn sandwich . |
8 | ‘ I would n't go as far as that . ’ |
9 | ‘ I would n't go as far as to say that but I 'll admit you were in a rather nasty pickle . ’ |
10 | Then he looked up with a solemn expression and replied : ‘ Well , I would n't go as far as that . ’ |
11 | No I would n't go as far as that anyway but I 'm saying they 're in the wrong it 's not you in the wrong , they 're in |
12 | Surely they would n't go so far as to break in ? |
13 | I would n't go so far as to say there 's no skill , because if you do have skill in identifying draws , then you 'll increase your chances of winning by using your skill in identifying those draws , but how much you win depends very heavily on how many draws there are and how many other people choose those same draws . |
14 | It would n't exist as far as the programmer was concerned . |
15 | The bill would be around £75 but , as Mary had said , the van would n't get as far as Calais in its present state . |
16 | Jack would n't shoot so long as he 'd got hold of him . |