Example sentences of "[modal v] go [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.

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1 It 's almost beyond belief that they should go as far as to kill three of our own men . ’
2 The SACHR said that affirmative action should go as far as positive discrimination , e.g. the tie break , but this is not in the legislation .
3 Good sense says that they should go as far as they can but return from time to time to those parts of the plan which have not at first been realized .
4 But I do not accept the submission of Mr. Everall ’ — who appeared for the father — ‘ that she should go so far as to establish that by their return they would be exposed to a grave risk of harm to bring them within the ambit of article 13 ( b ) .
5 One Latin American country drew up guidelines which specified that torturers must be able to control themselves ; must go as far as is necessary and no further ; and must have goals that are both important and impersonal .
6 The definition implies that the tendency must go much further than merely shocking or disgusting readers .
7 You 'll go just now if you do n't stop .
8 ‘ We 'll go as far as the village , ’ Sharpe said .
9 We 'll go as far as Coachford — that 's on the way to Gougane .
10 ‘ Well , I 'll go as far as Claydon with you , and I would like to get off and walk through a footpath into a lane and into Creeting , to have a look at the old blacksmith shop .
11 Some of us might go so far as to say that the Genesis account of creation is not literal history but myth in Lewis 's sense .
12 But like Tron , it could go no further than creating a transparently synthetic world .
13 Louts who could go no further than ill-thought-out violence on street corners .
14 What they felt was out in the open and they both knew it could go no further until whatever lay ahead was over .
15 Aunt Sarah was right in saying that it would take five days to reach Liverpool , since the barge could go no faster than the horse which pulled it .
16 As we could go no faster than the pace of the slowest man , Marius and I took his rucksack and FA-MAS to lighten his load .
17 She tried not to wish he could go away even though the room was cramping them .
18 I could go much faster than they could .
19 So I think it 's easy to see that religion fulfils this civilizing socially controlling role , but of course , this has been a popular theme in sociological writing in the course of the twentieth century , indeed , you could go so far as to say this , it is has become a cliche , in twentieth century social science .
20 Few could go so far as Musurus Pasha , who during his thirty-five years as Turkish ambassador in London staffed the embassy entirely with his sons , nephews and sons-in-law ; but even in the most developed states of western Europe and on the eve of the 1914 conflict family influences could still be important .
21 ‘ No , Nina , I was n't in love with David Markham , ’ said Rachel firmly , then , seeing that Nina was still slightly bemused , she added , ‘ In fact , I think you could go so far as to say I detested him . ’
22 But yesterday organiers decided competitors could go as fast as they like .
23 She could go as often as she wanted to the clinic , but they wo n't come out to her
24 In theory this process could go as far as equating marginal cost with demand so that the bureaucracy obtains all the consumer surplus .
25 ‘ I 'd go again today if it did n't mean waiting in line till a month from Monday , ’ said USA Today reviewer Mike Clark .
26 Tape Worm : I 'm normally very polite and hardly swear , but I 'd go so far as to say that Tape Worm is one ugly ( Censored ! — Ed ) .
27 ‘ I 'd go so far as to say I was very impressed .
28 I 'd say more than that , in fact I 'd go so far as to mention the name of Blanche Ingram and the word , marriage .
29 In fact , I 'd go so far as to return a compliment I 've had paid to me by men many times over in my eventful life .
30 ‘ I 'd go so far as to say that you 're wasting your time even to think of applying for custody . ’
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