Example sentences of "[noun prp] go [adv] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 Indeed , Eisenman goes so far as to suggest that the families of Jesus and John the Baptist may even have been related to that of Judas of Galilee , leader of the Zealots at the time of Jesus 's birth .
2 But Eusebius goes much further than this .
3 On Jan. 15 Gorbachev went so far as to suggest that the country 's new liberal press law might be suspended in the wake of Soviet media criticism of the leadership 's handling of the Baltic crisis .
4 Toby went so far as to straighten his back .
5 Indeed , Stein went as far as to wish his players ‘ all the best for the future . ’
6 Only wingers Rory Underwood and Simon Halliday went so far as to deliver confirmation of their departures from the international scene after the 24–0 win against Wales at Twickenham on Saturday .
7 Talking to Andre Malraux years later , Picasso went so far as to say that it was on this occasion that he all of a sudden received the revelation of why he was a painter at all and that ‘ I realized what painting was all about ’ .
8 Through some of his paintings of 1912 Picasso went so far as to say candidly to the spectator , ‘ j'aime Eva ’ ; at the same time he wrote to Kahnweiler of Eva , ‘ I love her very much and I shall write it on my paintings . ’
9 Farr-Jones went so far as to telephone his wife Angela in Sydney saying she should expect him home within days .
10 Janice went home earlier because of Teddy 's time-keeping and the office sits in darkness .
11 In this example , Ricci goes much further than evaluating her daughter 's performance .
12 Following announcement of the settlement , the government admitted that it had blundered in its handling of the affair , and on Oct. 30 Antall went so far as to suggest to parliament that he should resign ( no formal resignation offer was made , however ) .
13 Peter Robinson went so far as to say that until late 1974 ‘ there was no party ’ .
14 And here , ICMS goes even further than prevention ; it encourages growers to take positive action to enhance the environment by , for example , establishing wildlife strips to harbour natural predators or creating wildlife ponds to encourage wildlife diversity .
15 Bergson went so far as to describe intelligence , or the intellect , as being , and I quote , ‘ characterised by a natural inability to comprehend life . ’
16 Tolstoy went so far as to say that " He who was not alive in the Russia of 1856 does not know what life is " .
17 Archbishop Fisher went so far as to tell him that he was a possible future Archbishop of Canterbury .
18 Archbishop Fisher went so far as to write a very tough letter to the editor in defence of Ramsey .
19 The scene dealing with her adoration of Christ went no further than ‘ a few motions of the lips ’ — St Theresa 's moment of ecstasy was rendered by the image of Christ 's hand closing over hers .
20 Trotsky went so far as to call the agreement ‘ an ecclesiastical NEP ’ , implying a similar tolerance to that meted out to ‘ kulaks ’ or to Nepmen , but this was a superficial and short-sighted judgement redolent with propaganda .
21 And Glentoran went even closer when Gary Smyth hit the inside of the post after Keenan had fumbled a Hillis cross .
22 In Law , Legislation and Liberty Hayek went even further and suggested that , since legislation proper ‘ should not be governed by interests but by opinion ’ , what is required ‘ is an assembly of men and women elected at a relatively mature age for fairly long periods , such as fifteen years ’ .
23 In 1757 Postlethwayt went so far as to argue that the national debt had had the effect of transferring property to the " money-mongers " at such a pace that , " Since our debts have taken place , not near one tenth of the land of England is possessed by the posterity or heirs of those who possessed it at the Revolution . "
24 Certainly in recent years Pound 's interest in mystery-cults has been more than antiquarian ; in ‘ was Erigena ours ? ’ he asks whether the philosopher Scotus Erigena was one of the Eleusinian brotherhood , and ‘ ours ’ can be given full weight — Noel Stock goes so far as to claim ( op. cit. p.22 ) that some of the obscurity of these later Cantos is deliberate and arcane — ‘ he writes about them as an initiate in words that are both ‘ published and not published ’ … ’ .
25 Will the Secretary of State confirm that the privatisation of the inspectorate inherent in the Education ( Schools ) Bill goes far further than that presaged in the schools charter and includes , under the guise of additional inspectors , the substitution of private money-making firms to do the work currently carried out , not just by local inspectors but by the chief inspector of schools ?
26 Some favour legislation , Steve Scrutton going so far as to argue that the general term ‘ age ’ should never be used in legislation as a shorthand term to denote frailty or dependence .
27 The threat was enough to stop Rita and Bob going as far as their friends with real rude words .
28 Compaq went so far as to draft the specification which included an ARC-like HAL , or Hardware Abstraction Layer , to separate the value added from the hardware implementation .
29 Indeed Jakobson went so far as to claim , ‘ Neither Tynyanov , nor Shklovsky , nor Mukařovský , nor 1 have declared that art is a closed sphere …
30 One is Andrew goes away now and readjusts these figures , t to put the graduates , some of the graduates into the fee earning er column .
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