Example sentences of "[noun sg] go [adv] [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 | Most of these bars have live music , and all have staggered happy hours ( or is it happy stagger hour ? ! ) , so with a bit of forward planning we make sure your budget goes as far as possible . |
| 3 | The Anisminic decision goes much further than this and says in effect that A 's decision can be set aside by the courts if they disagree with his interpretation of the rules which he is required to apply . |
| 4 | Although some of the distinctive lexis of the London variety of Jamaican Creole may have its origins in Rasta speech , there is no clear evidence that Rastafarian influence on the structure of the Creole goes any further than that . |
| 5 | Daddy 's driven after you , but I did n't think he would catch you up because your car goes much faster than his . ’ |
| 6 | She could n't help thinking that Cara , who had been known to take the car to go as far as the corner shop to pick up a bottle of milk , would have folded long before this . |
| 7 | After the unveiling ceremony a special train hauled by No 2 The Countess went as far as Castle Caereinion before returning to Raven Square . |
| 8 | One journalist went so far as to assert , ‘ Carter should have little trouble with Congress ’ , while Professor Ross Baker noted that ‘ the basic elements are in place for a highly satisfactory relationship between Carter and Congress … there is no reason to forecast discord between the White House and Capitol Hill . |
| 9 | ‘ I wouldn'a go as far as that , ’ Reid reproved me . |
| 10 | It transpired that the snow went as quickly as it had come , the road was opened and supplies began getting through regularly again . |
| 11 | The crisis of confidence in the future went far deeper than the economic agonies of a restricted prosperity in society 's upper ranks . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | At one time , the Club went as far as refusing to allow juveniles a reduced entrance price for the London Road terrace but allowed them half price for other areas . |
| 14 | The Act goes no further than requiring that , where there is disagreement over accuracy , the fact that there is such disagreement must be recorded . |
| 15 | The US Fair Credit Reporting Act goes somewhat further than this . |
| 16 | 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 " ) . |
| 17 | We begin with Belbo phoning from Paris to say , ‘ They 're after me , ’ and the telephone going dead just as he is about to give the password for the computer file which holds the final explanation known to him alone . |
| 18 | Desmond Heap , in his 1955 presidential address to the ( then ) Town Planning Institute went so far as to declare that the preservation of Green belts was ‘ the very raison d'etre of town and country planning ’ . |
| 19 | His interview with Law went as badly as it is easily possible to imagine . |
| 20 | After the 1987 hurricane , the Tree Council went as far as to say that ‘ unless positive encouragement is given to owners to restore these woods … they will revert to scrub and never recover . ’ |
| 21 | The Lewisham Council went so far as to apply to the High Court for an Order of Mandamus requiring the Commissioner of Police to seek to have the march banned . |
| 22 | Actually Jacobi 's work went rather further than that , for he also found a way of calculating the number of expressions as sums of at most six or eight squares . |
| 23 | In 1958 regular recruiting went far better than the demographers had predicted , and the Army Council was able to substantiate its claim for a higher manpower ceiling . |
| 24 | The difference goes far deeper than the political complexion of the government . |
| 25 | 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 . ’ |
| 26 | When I moved to the Western Isles of Scotland I found I had no need to go as far as Norway for my Elysian coast ; there were mountains and sea in plenty right at my doorstep . |
| 27 | Indeed , so fundamental to the outlook of Jacobean Protestants was this identification of the pope with Antichrist that one contemporary went so far as to define a Protestant as one who ‘ can swear the Pope is antichrist and that flesh is good on Friday ’ . |
| 28 | Again perceptions of the value of these interviews differed , but one teacher went so far as to say that if it needed an appraisal to bring these advisers into the school then it was worth it . |
| 29 | Members of the radical Inter-regional group went so far as to table a motion of no confidence in the government , but a vote on whether to consider this motion was heavily defeated on May 29 . |
| 30 | But a snooker ball is n't twice as big , you know when a snooker ball hits something the other ball goes away quicker than the ball that 's hit it yeah ? |