Example sentences of "[verb] so far [conj] [to-vb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | In fact , the Conducator went so far as to command the peasants to ‘ maintain the customs and dress of our great-great fore-bears , so that they shall always be in our memory . |
| 32 | Archbishop Fisher went so far as to write a very tough letter to the editor in defence of Ramsey . |
| 33 | And Glasgow City Council even went so far as to make the rave an official 1990 European City of Culture happening . |
| 34 | Hayes and Garvin ( 1982 ) , for example , went so far as to blame the growing use of DCF for the relative decline in the performance of Western businesses . |
| 35 | On at least one occasion , he went so far as to express the hope that his own son would succeed him as monarch . |
| 36 | Conservative Luis Percovich , then Interior Minister , went so far as to hail the barefoot business people as the harbingers of a ‘ new Peru ’ . |
| 37 | In an Assize Sermon delivered at Leicester in 1682 , Thomas Ashenden , rector of Dingley ( Northants ) , even went so far as to accuse the King of being too soft on Dissent : " our present divisions , and our manifold menacing mischiefs " , he argued , " we may chiefly date from the late Toleration " , which " allowances proceed from Royal mercy " , and he claimed that the strength for rebellion had come " from the Breasts of Royal Indulgence " . |
| 38 | When his first wife died in 1751 , he went so far as to obtain a licence to marry a certain Hannah Laskey . |
| 39 | In 1831 and 1833 he went so far as to attack the Turks , until Britain and Russia intervened to protect the Ottoman empire from disintegration . |
| 40 | Other jingo socialists went so far as to attribute the same view to Winston Churchill , quoting him as saying : |
| 41 | In January 1881 he went so far as to recommend the involvement of zemstvo and municipal duma representatives in commissions appointed to consider reform of peasant affairs and local government . |
| 42 | George V tried to dissuade him from this course and indeed went so far as to register a formal protest : |
| 43 | Anselm himself never quoted this analogy , but he went so far as to warn the pope that if he gave an adverse judgement in the dispute between Canterbury and York ‘ I would on no account remain in England ; for I neither ought to , nor can allow the primacy of our church to be destroyed while I am alive . ’ |
| 44 | The Geagea-controlled television station , LBC , went so far as to show every film ever made about Hitler . |
| 45 | 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 . |
| 46 | I 'd say more than that , in fact I 'd go so far as to mention the name of Blanche Ingram and the word , marriage . |
| 47 | In fact , I 'd go so far as to return a compliment I 've had paid to me by men many times over in my eventful life . |
| 48 | We should not go so far as to hold a referendum , but the people must have the final say . |
| 49 | They did not go so far as to learn the language of the peoples they studied , but they did spell out for later writers the ground rules of such research . |
| 50 | In particularly weak cases the conciliation officer will go so far as to advise the applicant to withdraw the claim . |
| 51 | Indeed one commentator has gone so far as to describe the DTI 's performance in these cases coupled with its sloppiness in the Barlow Clowes affair and failure to press prosecution over the House of Fraser takeover as ‘ part of a lengthy and dishonourable supine tradition ’ ( Alex Brummer , Guardian , 28.8.90 ) . |
| 52 | One bar had even gone so far as to put a few tables outside , and on impulse Zen settled down to enjoy the sunlight and watch the show on the Corso . |
| 53 | One former American Secretary of State has gone so far as to characterise the Armed Forces as an institution ‘ operating entirely outside Party control ’ . |
| 54 | ‘ Social imperialism ’ suggests that the main beneficiaries of this policy were British consumers , and indeed one writer has gone so far as to argue a direct link to the Attlee government 's social reforms : ‘ The nationalisations , medical provision and expansion of education so magnanimously legislated by the Labour Ministry were largely achieved because the Bank of England kept the Sterling Area show on the road . ' |
| 55 | In the second half of the nineteenth century such sentiments had fostered the growth of a small but vigorous school of Siberian regionalist writers and political activists ( oblastniki ) , some of whom had even gone so far as to envisage the complete political separation of Siberia from Russia and the establishment of a new , independent Siberian republic . |
| 56 | The courts have not gone so far as to give a cause of action in damages for the breach of such a promise , but they have refused to allow the party making it to act inconsistently with it . |
| 57 | Moreover , the North American Securities Administration Association has gone so far as to accuse the South Pacific micro-states of Nauru , Vanuatu , Tonga and the Marshall and Northern Mariana Islands of being ‘ international centres of prostitute banking ’ . |
| 58 | The Workshop in Communicative Grammar bore the stamp of its energetic organizer , , who had gone so far as to postpone a Fulbright Fellowship to study with in Pennsylvania in order to bring the planned Workshop to fruition . |
| 59 | Some translators of the Bible have gone so far as to postpone the main verb until the divine fiat : And God said , Let there be light . |
| 60 | 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 . |