Example sentences of "to go [adv] far as " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was even prepared to go so far as to admit that monotony was the most comfortable way . |
| 2 | But one does not have to go so far as to support child benefit for the qualitative demographic effect it may or may not have . |
| 3 | But though none might be prepared to go so far as that , all British parties would quickly realize that apparent discrimination against women in their lists would do them a lot of harm . |
| 4 | However , contributors to the Review were largely unwilling to go so far as to attempt to specify the nature of artistic quality in general , despite the fact that their own capacity to decide which texts were of sufficient interest in themselves to justify study depended upon recognizing such quality . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Indeed , even without having to go so far as the Commission of the European Communities did at the hearing in arguing that registration itself already constitutes a form of establishment , it must be observed that in any event registration is a precondition for taking up and pursuing activities in the fisheries sector . |
| 7 | You might , for instance have to alter the way the murder you had in mind is committed or you might have to go so far as to alter the motive of the murderer or even find a completely different person to commit the central action . |
| 8 | ‘ I would n't like to go so far as to predict anything for Sunday but you can be certain I am far more confident about the race now than I was . |
| 9 | ‘ I am not myself convinced that the Government will be so foolish as to go so far as to privatise water . |
| 10 | Australia and New Zealand even wanted to go as far as the international operation of aircraft on trunk routes . |
| 11 | Since I ca n't dress the way I like , I try to go as far as I can whilst still making a feeble attempt at femininity . |
| 12 | While it may not be reasonable to go as far as official opinion , there was some truth in Stalin 's retrospective judgement at the 12th Party Congress : |
| 13 | ‘ And there are some boys who are just out to go as far as they can with a girl and get rid of her after a couple of days . |
| 14 | It is not company policy to go as far as this . ’ |
| 15 | Our aim was to go as far as the Wellenkuppe ( 3,903 metres ) , a beautiful mountain in its own right . |
| 16 | Otherwise , the fieldwork strategy in large-scale quantitative studies must be broadly the same as that of Labov : we need to go as far as possible in obtaining casual styles from informants and to develop ways of distinguishing styles on a continuum from ‘ careful ’ to ‘ casual ’ style . |
| 17 | Did you have to go as far as that ? |
| 18 | When I moved to the Western Isles of Scotland I found I had no need to go as far as Norway for my Elysian coast ; there were mountains and sea in plenty right at my doorstep . |
| 19 | The barge-owners had to go as far as the brewery wharf across Maurice 's foredeck and over a series of gangplanks which connected them with their own boats . |
| 20 | Medical supplies are going in from this country not only to help Moscow and St. Petersburg , but to go as far as Ekaterinburg , Tymen , Novokuznetsk , the Kiev oblast , the Donetsk oblast , and further afield . |
| 21 | The CNAA 's ideas were taking a different shape in 1975 , showing an unwillingness to go as far as delegating authority for the approval of courses , but pursuing the idea of ‘ internal validation ’ . |
| 22 | I actually wanted to that I did n't really want to go as far as for example deciding that the chair what they are voting would be within the resources available to the . |
| 23 | She could n't help thinking that Cara , who had been known to take the car to go as far as the corner shop to pick up a bottle of milk , would have folded long before this . |
| 24 | Sylvia Pedder sometimes has to go as far as Cumbria to see her relatives . |