Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] go [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , as the results of the first inspections started to come in the seriousness of the problem was realised and the US authorities eventually went so far as to call for the use of specially made ultrasonic probes for detecting cracks round the fastener holes . |
| 2 | Doyle suddenly went very still . |
| 3 | ‘ Fans just go straight home instead of coming in for a drink . |
| 4 | In a passage which reads very oddly indeed today and betrays his naïveté , Durkheim even went so far as to claim that such was the depressing degree of homogeneity in primitive society that its members were actually physically indistinguishable from each other ! |
| 5 | ( One Judge even going so far as to say , ‘ In ten years ' time , 1989 may well be seen as the year when Vauxhall redefined the sports coupé . ’ ) |
| 6 | And Glasgow City Council even went so far as to make the rave an official 1990 European City of Culture happening . |
| 7 | Ken was so put off that this potential sexual-encounter never went any further . |
| 8 | Once they 've got there , the organism really goes no further . |
| 9 | But green campaigns directed at the handling of solid waste sometimes go much further than is justified by the need to protect health , or even to prevent litter or damage to the landscape . |
| 10 | Well no , the reason I and because these things just go so quickly |
| 11 | Could death education ever go this far as to teach the bereaved how to dig a grave and incidentally earn a discount ? |
| 12 | ‘ The underwriting really went exceedingly well , given the size of the issue . ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | An editorial recently went so far as to say that more important than establishing a framework for research and development was doing something about the failure to disseminate and apply existing knowledge . |
| 16 | And they told me about Azul , in Jersey , and before that I think it was before that they showed me the forensic photographs of all of them : Bissett skewered on the railings , grotesque and spread and limp ; the blood-smeared vibrator used on the retired judge , Jamieson ; the drained shapeless white body of Persimmon , tied to his grid above a pool of blood , then nothing when there should have been something ; then what was left of Sir Rufus Carter , blackened bones , distorted and bent , the black skull 's jaw hinged down in a blind scream but the flesh all gone very much a dental-records job and it was all black , the nails , the wood and the bones too but it 's their mouths their jaws I remember , their silent screams , hanging slack or jammed open and it gets worse because they show me the fucking video they show me the video they think I made or that I think they think I made but I did n't ; they make me watch it and it 's horrific ; there 's a man and he 's dressed in black or dark blue and he has a gorilla mask on and he keeps sucking on this little bottle he 's carrying which must be helium because it gives him that baby voice disguising his own voice and he has this fat little guy strapped to a chrome seat , his mouth taped , one arm tied down onto the arm of the chair , shirt rolled up and the little guy 's shrieking as hard as he can but it sounds quiet because the noise is having to come down his nose while the man in the gorilla mask looks from the camera to the guy in the seat and holds up this huge fucking syringe like something from a nightmare from an old movie from a horror film and I can feel my heart beating wildly because that 's what this is . |
| 17 | On Friday evenings her father often went home early , because he and Jane and the infants liked to drive into Kent , where they had friends . |
| 18 | The British War Cabinet even went so far as to create a special committee to guide Swinton during the talks . |
| 19 | Stockdale even went as far as praising Laurent for having surveyed , and a foreigner at that , without the knowledge of the language and ‘ by eye alone … without the use of instruments and in the coldest part of the year … in less than two months two towns for some miles in circumference , with all their intricate communications . ’ |
| 20 | Indeed , one of the characters even goes so far as to advocate an aleatory literature which , abandoning all pretence of saying anything , would provide the reader with dice and a random list of words and leave him/her to make of it what he/she may . |
| 21 | However , even supporters feel the movement sometimes goes too far in its quest for souls . |
| 22 | The entry is on the extreme left between the bank and the guard rock over two nice rounded cills within a boat 's length , drop approx 3 ft , then there is a 90 degree traverse right to a V shaped trough through the next cill , drop 2 ft then go diagonally right again over a small cill ( 1 ft ) , then left again between two large outcrops into a smooth chute which drops 6 ft in 20 yds into a deep pool complete with rustic chainlink suspension bridge and shelving sandy beach . |
| 23 | Armstrong even goes as far as asking ‘ is it not conceivable that the whole of syntax and semantics should have been innate so that all mankind spoke the one , wired-in , nonconventional language ? ’ ( 1971 : 437 ) . |
| 24 | This is in fact the statutory definition under Scottish law , but the English decisions hardly go so far , for the fact that the assets on realisation would not repay the debentures in full has been held insufficient . |
| 25 | President Bani Sadr of Iran said that his country was unwilling to respond , with the inevitable consequence that Iraq simply went ahead unilaterally and then cut the experiment short . |
| 26 | Lydia even went so far as to bathe it in vinegar at Betty 's behest . |
| 27 | The railway only went as far as Achnasheen in 1876 . |
| 28 | Finally , the case against markets often goes even further , to assert the basic incompatibility of markets and socialism . |
| 29 | Nicholas Cruz though goes much further than that . |
| 30 | Nicholas Cruz though goes much further than that . |