Example sentences of "go [adv] [adv] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | We need to go only as far as eqn ( 2.21 ) . |
| 2 | It goes together as simply as a child 's building blocks |
| 3 | Deep safe water was a dark royal blue , while over a coral reef the sea shaded to green or , when perilously shallow , to brown , and Thessy , peering ahead , would shout at me to go to port or starboard , or even to go backwards as fast as the motors would catch hold . |
| 4 | The best defence here is to go underground as quickly as possible . |
| 5 | UNCED 's Secretary-General , Maurice Strong , has acknowledged that there will be " serious failures " at the summit , and added , in an oblique reference to the US , that " some countries are not going nearly as far as they could " . |
| 6 | Whatever the ultimate aim might be , for the moment the CNAA was going as far only as delegating or sharing aspects of the validation process — which meant accepting the limitations of the CNAA 's existing Charter . |
| 7 | This public assertion of my childhood 's usefulness stands side by side with the painful personal knowledge , I think the knowledge of all of us , going as far back as the story lets us , that it would have been better if it had n't happened that way , had n't happened at all . |
| 8 | They were in fact social outcasts , to whom documentary references can be found going as far back as the thirteenth century . |
| 9 | On King Street Junior ( Radio 4 , Thursday ) things were not going quite as swimmingly as the Secretary of State might wish . |
| 10 | He chose to be a marine engineer reckoning to go as far away as possible from the wastes of Leith and hoping to see the world . |
| 11 | The full extension of the slide only goes as far down as C , but an ‘ E slide ’ gives the low B natural ; the B flat is taken as a ‘ pedal note ’ in the first position of the B flat instrument and the rest of the pedal notes are available down to E , the bottom open string of the string bass . |
| 12 | It goes as far back as to when Lord Ennals was Secretary of State . |
| 13 | The king 's messenger caught up with him at Piacenza and they went together as far as Lyons . |
| 14 | Those days have gone only so long as a Government are in power who are determined to continue a regime of common sense and reasonable and balanced industrial relations . |
| 15 | Tomorrow she would go home as early as possible and she would never see him again . |
| 16 | Flavia enjoyed the paper-games and , as she had said , the dancing ; she went nearly as often as she was asked ( Better not hang about too much in the house on the bay ) ; she enjoyed the company … moderately . |
| 17 | Everything went smoothly so long as I lay on my tummy , but when they turned me on to my back I was assailed with a searing pain there . |
| 18 | It seems that a lot of the new guitar players in bands do n't seem to go back anymore to check who their idols were influenced by — like , they 'll go as far back as Jimmy Page then stop , without finding out about his influences … |
| 19 | Teddy refuses to be drawn on his early life and will only go as far back as the Biggin Hill Air Fair of June this year when Anita and Bob Armstrong ‘ adopted ’ him . |
| 20 | All went well as far as Jersey , where the Met man proclaimed that thunderstorms to the south would shortly ground all light aircraft , pointing to the yellow and red swathe on his TV monitor . |
| 21 | Through the winter months , the larger firms gave further assurances that they were willing " to take immediate steps for the gradual reduction of female comps " ; some it seems went even so far as to dismiss women . |
| 22 | Few , however , go quite as far as Dickens , who is apt to bum great houses down . |
| 23 | If you go twice as fast as something else , and you started out at the same instant from the same spot , you 'd go twice as far — which is what you found . |
| 24 | Again Balfour 's account is in substantial agreement , although he adds the gloss that when , at one stage in his summing up he referred to his assumption that Asquith would not serve under either Law or Lloyd George , Asquith intervened to say that he had not gone quite so far as that ; he must consult his friends before giving a final answer . |
| 25 | No-one else had gone quite as far as that , and the self-conscious Thiercelin had tried to look as if Lefevre was nothing to do with him . |
| 26 | She thrust the paper across the desk , then was gone almost as fast as she 'd come . |
| 27 | If he did not go quite so far as Eric Linklater in believing that what Mary was doing down at Kirk o' Field during the last days of Darnley 's life in February 1567 was indulging a ‘ womanly zeal for nursing ’ , he certainly had no doubt of her innocence . |
| 28 | The Flower of Chivalry did not go quite so far as that . |
| 29 | The Crofting Reform ( Scotland ) Act of 1976 did not go quite as far as this , but it did give the crofters the incontestable right to purchase their house and garden , and the optional ( though not incontestable ) right to purchase their land for 15 times the annual rent . |
| 30 | Many may have been persuaded or encouraged not to do so by the uncertainty in the law , so I would not go quite as far as my hon. Friend in suggesting that local authorities alone are to blame . |