Example sentences of "far as [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Protagoras found gender assignation in Greek inconsistent and illogical — for example , there were cases when two words referring to the same thing had different genders — and he went so far as to advocate reform ( he was ridiculed for this by Aristophanes , and the attempt was unsuccessful ) . |
| 3 | Ellen forgot herself so far as to sit down plump on the bed . |
| 4 | the right of privacy did not extend so far as to confer a protected right on consenting adults to pursue their own choice in the matter of watching obscene and pornographic motion pictures within a theatre … [ even one ] not open to minors and which gave patrons due notice of the kind of entertainment provided . |
| 5 | Even then , he had not got as far as thinking what would be the music that introduced the News and all at once the screen was filled with a picture of his own house , a picture that nearly jolted him out of his skin . |
| 6 | Even my wharped mind had only got as far as thinking . |
| 7 | In the summer of 1101 , faced with Robert 's landing in England and the immediate prospect of widespread desertion , Henry went so far as to promise a general obedience to the papal decrees , and it seems likely that Anselm 's activity on his behalf , secured by this promise , turned the tide in his favour , and brought Duke Robert 's invasion to a halt . |
| 8 | One former American Secretary of State has gone so far as to characterise the Armed Forces as an institution ‘ operating entirely outside Party control ’ . |
| 9 | Once the observer decides that the mismatch of intended and actual activities is negative rather than positive as far as helping the children to learn is concerned , he will need to identify where modification is necessary . |
| 10 | They have to learn a lot of different skills , and also in business nothing happens unless you 're good at organizing teams , so businessmen often get good at working with people , which is , I think , a hugely important experience so far as helping people to grow up is concerned . |
| 11 | No , he had n't seen her for a week before that weekend ; he had missed her — this with a baleful glance towards the door — and had indeed got as far as ringing her up on the Saturday morning , hoping she would come up for Sunday , but had got no answer from her flat . |
| 12 | In their efforts to impress the United States , the Romanians went so far as to compare their position vis-à-vis the Kremlin with Cuba 's in relation to Washington . |
| 13 | Morrow ( 1980:Part 4 ) takes the subordination of text to purpose and prediction so far as to use the questions to construct the text ( through a series of student activities like speed-reading of parts of the text , reordering , and blank-filling ) while the text itself is hidden away at the back of the book for consumption afterwards . |
| 14 | In 1991 , Mrs Virginia Bottomley , then minister for health , even went so far as to use section 118 as the reason for not being able to give parliament information about the production and distribution of counterfeit medicines . |
| 15 | I 've heard it repeated on the radio recently and even the Secretary of State did n't go so far as to use the ninety percent figure but was talking about the seriously mentally ill and the not so seriously mentally ill . |
| 16 | You know , very often when you go from one country to another you go through an area of re , what is called no man 's land , you come through from one frontier and then you 've got a distance and you come to the next frontier that does n't exist as far as accepting or rejecting Christ is concerned . |
| 17 | Could death education ever go this far as to teach the bereaved how to dig a grave and incidentally earn a discount ? |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Also taking that view was Dr Tony Andrews of the Royal Veterinary College in London , who said : ‘ I know I have to be careful in what I say but in my view , the management in many herds as far as feeding regimes are concerned is little better than controlled starvation . ’ |
| 20 | No , I must say that things have now gone so far as to justify me in feeling considerable uneasiness about his continued absence . ’ |
| 21 | Cusick even goes so far as to venture an empathy between the teams Verity Lambert assembled to work on the series . |
| 22 | As Carol Dyhouse has pointed out , in concentrating their attention on mothercraft , medical experts tended to devalue women 's knowledge regarding infant care , one doctor going so far as to label grandmothers as ‘ infanticide experts ’ . |
| 23 | Did anyone get as far as buying a programme for the Villa game , or did n't they even go on sale ? |
| 24 | So far as mens rea is concerned , the issue is not whether the defendant himself considered that the words or conduct in question was insulting , but whether he realised that the persons whom he was addressing might do so . |
| 25 | All hell broke loose , Mount Stewart was besieged by the media , and one Fleet Street paper went as far as accusing MacDonald of duplicity . |
| 26 | We 'd even go so far as throwing modesty to the wind , and say you wo n't find better value for money holidays or flights anywhere else . |
| 27 | Having an excellent harbour , Vancouver was a sportsman 's paradise so far as swimming , fishing , and boating were concerned , and while I have never claimed prowess in the water or in angling I have found pleasure on a boat , provided that boat was big enough — big enough that is , for me to sit comfortably on deck , preferably with a drink in hand , and watch the world go by . |
| 28 | Nutritionally , infant formulas are almost identical to breast milk , although , as Dr Peter Sullivan points out , as far as building up your baby 's resistance to infection goes , they have absolutely no effect . |
| 29 | Danby later insisted that he had never intended things to go " so far as to settle the Crown on the Prince of Orange " . |
| 30 | 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 ’ . |