Example sentences of "[adv] go as far [subord] [v-ing] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Where we 're concerned , our religious involvement only goes as far as using images of , say , the Virgin Mary on our sleeves , but it 's not us being disrespectful .
2 ‘ Where we 're concerned , our religious involvement only goes as far as using images of , say , the Virgin Mary on our sleeves , but it 's not us being disrespectful .
3 ‘ We will only go as far as suggesting some of the market leaders like Sage and Pegasus , then we let the customers decide ’ .
4 In Canada the Human Rights Act 1978 does not go as far as removing mandatory retirement ages ( although there is pressure growing to do so ) but does make it unlawful to deprive people of employment opportunities on grounds of age , as a result of policies or practices relating to recruitment promotion , training , or other personnel matters .
5 Armstrong even goes as far as asking ‘ is it not conceivable that the whole of syntax and semantics should have been innate so that all mankind spoke the one , wired-in , nonconventional language ? ’ ( 1971 : 437 ) .
6 Stockdale even went as far as praising Laurent for having surveyed , and a foreigner at that , without the knowledge of the language and ‘ by eye alone … without the use of instruments and in the coldest part of the year … in less than two months two towns for some miles in circumference , with all their intricate communications . ’
7 One even went as far as giving a story to a newspaper that the couple would share the same bed in Korea .
8 That 's it , though he does n't go as far as refusing to let you see his picture .
9 ‘ So you could n't go as far as saying who it might have been calling on the Rector at that late hour ? ’
10 In all my years on newspapers , I 've never gone as far as breaking and entering .
11 Uncle Joe subjected me to the same torture and humiliation every time we were alone together — although , thankfully , he never actually went as far as raping me .
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