Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [conj] [to-vb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ I would n't like to go so far as to predict anything for Sunday but you can be certain I am far more confident about the race now than I was . |
| 32 | Farr-Jones went so far as to telephone his wife Angela in Sydney saying she should expect him home within days . |
| 33 | It had once even gone so far as to empty him on to the floor for voicing an intolerant opinion on the Jesuits . |
| 34 | There are those critics of the polytechnics who regard this as a most unfortunate development and would go so far as to castigate them for betraying their primary purpose , which they see as providing for the communities in which they are located , something which of necessity can only be done primarily through part-time provision . |
| 35 | Lydia even went so far as to bathe it in vinegar at Betty 's behest . |
| 36 | For various reasons the main one of which was a lack of understanding of our problems , our local administration were often unsympathetic and went so far as to accuse us of non co-operation at times , especially in the matter of rest days . |
| 37 | Leech was examined on 18th August 1669 to see if he was able " to instruct the youth so far as to fit them for the universities " by a panel composed of Dr. Slater , Mr. Watson ( Schoolmaster of Sutton 's Hospital ) , Mr. Holmes ( Schoolmaster of Christ 's Hospital ) , and Mr. Crumland ( a master from St. Paul 's ) . |
| 38 | Archbishop Fisher went so far as to tell him that he was a possible future Archbishop of Canterbury . |
| 39 | However , even by the middle years of the nineteenth century an industrial city like Manchester had not expanded so far as to prevent its mill workers walking in the country on Sundays . |
| 40 | We then asked him , if he could not go so far as to meet us in full , to introduce an empowering provision . |
| 41 | ( b ) On the other hand the courts will not carry a literal construction of the articles so far as to defeat their obvious purpose . |
| 42 | ‘ I am to be questioned and interfered with and hounded , not to be left , doing a job of work the way I choose , a necessary job , a job our sister has made tediously inevitable , a job the result of which may save us from potential disgrace , even if we can not go so far as to expect it to improve our situation out of all recognition . |
| 43 | Toby went so far as to straighten his back . |
| 44 | For another , Gombrich was unfailingly courteous and informative , without , however , going so far as to make his interviewer sound good . |
| 45 | She could describe weather conditions so realistically as to make her audience shiver or sweat , and children would find themselves taking off and putting on a garment in mid-tale . |
| 46 | The tunes were in a slow waltz time but played with that characteristic thump which accentuates the first beat of the bar so strongly as to obliterate everything else , reducing any melodic line to a tribal dance . |
| 47 | In some cases population intermingled there 's bound to be conflict whatever happens , it seems to me that these problems can only be solved , first of all by ensuring that all eth ethnic groups have the right to their own culture , their own language , their own religion and so on and to exercise them in their own territory , but they 're not discriminated again in jobs and housing and education , er and then also as you say to help with state sponsored finance people who do decide that they want to migrate , that they do n't want to live in somebody else 's Republic , that they do want to move across the border into , as it were , their own Republic . |
| 48 | The day had been hot ; in fact , the previous week had been very hot and so the roads and streets were paved with ridged flags of mud , hardbaked , but not so hard as to prevent their surfaces being skimmed off into dust which , in some streets of the town , seemed to be floating waist high like a mist rising from water . |
| 49 | His left hand , bent with arthritis , curved over a stick on which he leant so heavily as to give him the appearance of physical deformity . |
| 50 | For her own part , Theodora could n't really see Amy , small and frail as she was , physically assaulting anyone , not so as to kill them . |
| 51 | In one way the Chancellor is already brought into relation with the administration of justice , though not so as to enable him to modify the law at his pleasure . |
| 52 | Had they taken it away so as to fool him ! |
| 53 | I saw some people from school and turned my head away so as to avoid them . |
| 54 | ‘ It is a fantastic achievement to win here just once but to do it six times is amazing and a very special feat . ’ |
| 55 | When someone comes along and gives you a mouthful , not maliciously but to put you right , boy do you like it ! ’ |
| 56 | Sarah knew she was slow , and she tried hard to grasp things more quickly and to keep her mind on the task or game in hand , but she did n't always succeed . |
| 57 | Finally , the map representing ‘ Italy in the sixteenth century ’ should be made to show the boundaries between states more clearly and to narrow its time-frame to a period when they remained exactly the same . |
| 58 | to see what it 's like really and to feel what it 's like and to , no I do n't think we should do . |
| 59 | Taps and valves are used to control the flow of water through pipes , either to turn it off completely or to reduce it . |
| 60 | The first time , he asked the man to make love to him right there in the car , not to take him home yet but to do it to him there in the car . |