Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] [vb past] [adv] far [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Archbishop Fisher went so far as to tell him that he was a possible future Archbishop of Canterbury . |
| 3 | Archbishop Fisher went so far as to write a very tough letter to the editor in defence of Ramsey . |
| 4 | The Home Office said aS far as young offenders were concerned … the aim was to find constructive altermnatives to custody … |
| 5 | All hell broke loose , Mount Stewart was besieged by the media , and one Fleet Street paper went as far as accusing MacDonald of duplicity . |
| 6 | On two occasions Shah Jehan went so far as to declare Dara his desired successor , while adding that the matter rested in the hands of Allah . |
| 7 | 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 . ’ |
| 8 | Mrs Cranbrook unbent so far as to show approval . |
| 9 | Back in 1933 work was begun on a racer for the 1934 MacRobertson race from London to Melbourne and Jacquelin Cochran got as far as Bucharest before damaging it in a landing accident . |
| 10 | Kip Bertram went so far as to describe the letter as ‘ venomous ’ , and Norman Smith , managing director of Total Book Distribution , said it was ‘ insulting and naive ’ . |
| 11 | The Education Officer of Matagalpa Prison went as far as to say that when systems of exploitation can be brought to an end , crime as a major social phenomenon will disappear . |
| 12 | One Columbia University student went as far as writing a paper on the novel and its author and was awarded a respectable grade . |
| 13 | 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 ’ . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | In nearby Sumatra , the Batak men went as far as deliberately slicing open their penises and inserting pieces of stone , which became firmly embedded as the wound closed over . |
| 16 | John Maynard Smith went so far as to submit the super-forgiving Tit for Two Tats . |
| 17 | Elf clippers sailed as far as Nippon and Cathay in search of goods . |
| 18 | Peter Robinson went so far as to say that until late 1974 ‘ there was no party ’ . |
| 19 | Leaving no stone unturned for its Destiny launch , the telephone company offshoot went so far as to score still another first , announcing SVR4.2 simultaneously in Europe , the Far East , the US and Russia , reportedly at a Unix user group meeting , facilitated by the famed Esther Dyson . |
| 20 | The publisher Moxon went so far as to put out an edition of the Shelley forgeries , with an introduction by Robert Browning . |
| 21 | The film capital is a huge sprawling city which seems to stretch indefinitely in all directions ; they even said that the outskirts of Los Angeles reached as far as San Francisco ! |
| 22 | Other jingo socialists went so far as to attribute the same view to Winston Churchill , quoting him as saying : |
| 23 | Flat fields interspersed by dykes gleaming in the June sunshine spread as far as the eye could see and skylarks hovered and trilled overhead , but Nails , cautiously taking it all in , was given no time for comment . |