Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] [adv] [conj] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . |
| 2 | But one does not have to go so far as to support child benefit for the qualitative demographic effect it may or may not have . |
| 3 | Many congratulations and a warm welcome should be given to Dorling Kindersley , the first general publisher to recognise that there is ELT potential in its list and to go so far as to publish an ELT catalogue . |
| 4 | However , contributors to the Review were largely unwilling to go so far as to attempt to specify the nature of artistic quality in general , despite the fact that their own capacity to decide which texts were of sufficient interest in themselves to justify study depended upon recognizing such quality . |
| 5 | ‘ I am not myself convinced that the Government will be so foolish as to go so far as to privatise water . |
| 6 | He was even prepared to go so far as to admit that monotony was the most comfortable way . |
| 7 | You might , for instance have to alter the way the murder you had in mind is committed or you might have to go so far as to alter the motive of the murderer or even find a completely different person to commit the central action . |
| 8 | It really must be be for the churches and the families themselves to go much further and to instruct if that is the er what the Noble Lord is hinting at , at erm promoting belief . |
| 9 | In the long-term , ANWIC aims to help empower women to communicate more effectively and to obtain a better representation in the media hierarchy . |
| 10 | Whilst other nations wrestle with the complex problems of a modern democracy , the questions of press ownership , the funding of political parties , wire-tapping , privacy , freedom of information , the control of the security services , and so on , Britain has been content either to stand aside altogether or to legislate for continuing trust and deference . |
| 11 | When is it more important to go backwards fast than to go accurately under control ? |
| 12 | The better-known Cabinet Ministers moved in a stately fashion as if speed of foot might trample accidentally a party worker bent upon homage ; better to tread slowly so as to receive fittingly the admiration of many . |
| 13 | Many teachers are able to function pretty well and to keep their doubts and feelings under reasonable control . |
| 14 | Lord Young has had to battle hard ever since to defend both his original deferment of publication and his decision to stand fast despite the leak . |
| 15 | " He summoned a meeting , where a simple plan was very simply found : since they had nothing left but their lives and their bodies , they chose to die nobly rather than to betray and abandon their king " . |
| 16 | To partake in that utterance must demand superhuman courage , courage from the divine , an ability to think so intensely as to die even from pure thought — to die a death ordained , not for self-glorification , a significant and saving death . |
| 17 | But we would all do well to learn to eat more slowly and to savour the taste of what we are eating . |
| 18 | The aim of the training is to help the individual to think more adaptively and to develop and improve their performance in any particular task . |
| 19 | A choreographer 's wish to exploit a particularly gifted dancer usually leads that dancer to develop more fully and to have more to give when cast in ballets by more objective choreographers . |
| 20 | Narrowly dyadic relationships of this kind show no tendency to proliferate outwards so as to form a wider network , and , since they are usually short-lived , anthropologists have not often given them much attention . |
| 21 | What I hope to gain on the course is to be able to speak more confidently and to get over the nerves . |
| 22 | So , together with his engraving , etching and aquatinting materials and his pigments for colours which he always mixed carefully himself , it was in the summer of 1800 that he decided to go north ( to the Lakes ) to begin once again and to try to rid himself of all he had learnt over the last decade and ‘ to adhere as faithfully as possible to nature . |
| 23 | Much worse to begin too soon than to begin too late . |