Example sentences of "so [adv] as [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Christine Brooke-Rose does not go so far as to disavow authorial creativity altogether , but she too sees technology as the possible key to a breakthrough in how we think about the human subject . |
| 2 | We might even go so far as to say that amplification of deviance among one group rather than among another could simply be due to chance . |
| 3 | Sensing the dangers of such rivalry , the Communists intensified their attack on the ILP , going so far as to declare that disaffiliation was but a temporary manoeuvre . |
| 4 | The mitigation of the law was at first carried so far as to sacrifice that object , said J.S. Mill . |
| 5 | So far as concerns professional regulation , the Law Society requires that the membership of each such company be confined to qualified solicitors , retired partners and the dependents of retired or deceased partners . |
| 6 | My thesis is that our institutions must be so structurally altered that , so far as regards permanent legislation , the will of the majority will always prevail against that of the party composing the executive for the time being , and that , whoever may form the government of the day will be compelled to follow procedures and policies compatible with the nature of Parliamentary democracy and the rule of freedom under law . |
| 7 | He even went so far as to demand universal manhood suffrage and annually-elected parliaments . |
| 8 | Some farmers even go so far as to grow continuous cereal crops indefinitely — barley on the lighter land and winter wheat on the strong clays . |
| 9 | The recent Report of the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution even goes so far as to recommend that straw burning should be banned in five years time . |
| 10 | He was even prepared to go so far as to admit that monotony was the most comfortable way . |
| 11 | Elderly people and their families who wish to ‘ go it alone , so far as obtaining outside help is concerned are , of course , quite at liberty to do so , and four of the large organisations who can give advice on a great variety of problems are : |
| 12 | Well , if you are typical of your birth sign , you will have already made up your mind and taken your leave around August 6th , when it became apparent that certain associates had sided against you or even gone so far as to hatch some kind of plot . |
| 13 | As it spread , its uses diversified so fast as to make any introduction to twelfth-century sources on the scale attempted in the earlier parts of the book ( pp. 17–26 , 124–32 ) impossible . |