Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [verb] so [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The story goes so far as to suggest that Hewlett-Packard threatened to resign from OSF over the pace of development but changed its mind . |
| 2 | In fact , the Conducator went so far as to command the peasants to ‘ maintain the customs and dress of our great-great fore-bears , so that they shall always be in our memory . |
| 3 | That has now changed Eastern arts no longer support the gallery now one obvious reason for that is the gallery started so well because of the enthusiasm from a number of professional people who came along and gave their advice and much of their time and such a body of people has not been called upon for a number of years now and once again a request to discuss this with Mr was refused . |
| 4 | In fact , the Committee goes so far as to assert that business and industry have no distinctive educational needs , and is thereby able to collapse point 2 in its terms of reference ( " the needs of business , the professions and the public services " ) into point 1 ( " the requirements of a liberal education " ) . |
| 5 | Where the husband goes so far as to cause injury , there are available a number of offences against the person with which he may be charged , but the gravamen of the husband 's conduct is the injury he has caused not the sexual intercourse he has forced . ’ |
| 6 | A second line of argument is to see the picture painted so far as too static . |
| 7 | However the question in the present case was whether the duty of confidence which the defendant no doubt owed to the plaintiff extended so far as to bar disclosure of the report to the hospital or the Home Office . |
| 8 | In general terms , however , the present state of the law is that an individual who has reached the age of 18 is free to do with his life what he wishes , but it is the duty of the court to ensure so far as it can that children survive to attain that age . |
| 9 | TODAY has been told the letter went so far as to claim she had betrayed her husband , her sons and , above all , the Queen . |
| 10 | The couple went so far as to have Chris Nixon , one of the best unit publicists in the business , fired . |
| 11 | That is the ability to co-ordinate the actions of members of the society in cases in which they have reason to co-ordinate their actions , and the ability to do so better than they can . |
| 12 | The fuse would destroy itself , the gunpowder explode , poor Cosmas 's legs would be shattered , and even if he wanted to , the fire spread so quickly as to prevent his escape . |