Example sentences of "so [adv] as [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | 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 ’ . |
| 32 | 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 " . |
| 33 | 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 . |
| 34 | The British even , at the eleventh hour , went so far as to change the rules to allow a republic , by definition owing no allegiance to the British Crown , to be a member . |
| 35 | So far as ranking the relative seriousness of sexual assaults is concerned , however , full account should be taken of the psychological effects of such offences . |
| 36 | In particularly weak cases the conciliation officer will go so far as to advise the applicant to withdraw the claim . |
| 37 | Other jingo socialists went so far as to attribute the same view to Winston Churchill , quoting him as saying : |
| 38 | 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 . |
| 39 | A punch should not extend so far as to throw the puncher off balance , nor should a block be carried more than six inches above the head . |
| 40 | Emily swallowed hard , how could she lower her pride so far as to approach the girl she had been so scornful of ? |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 43 | 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 . |
| 44 | 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 . |
| 45 | Educated , urban Spaniards demanded institutional and constitutional reforms , some going so far as to favour the monarchy 's replacement by a republic ; in Catalonia and the Basque country , where distinctive languages and cultures existed , rising nationalist movements opposed the regime 's centralizing character ; in Morocco , Spain and her army became embroiled in what was to be her last colonial war ; and two mass forces of the left , socialism and anarchism , emerged to offer organized protest against the injustices of Spanish society . |
| 46 | And Glasgow City Council even went so far as to make the rave an official 1990 European City of Culture happening . |
| 47 | In such cases the court should not apply the strict construction so far as to make the whole clause void or invalid or unenforceable . |
| 48 | 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 . ’ |
| 49 | Conservative Luis Percovich , then Interior Minister , went so far as to hail the barefoot business people as the harbingers of a ‘ new Peru ’ . |
| 50 | 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 . |
| 51 | The German Idealist tradition was born out of the rejection of British empiricism and some political commentators have urged that the legacy of this can still be seen in the idea that ‘ the Germans have only really to desire change in order to achieve basic changes in their position , and that these changes would in consequence alter the European scene so radically as to produce the longed-for peace ’ . |
| 52 | Not so quietly as to escape the attention of the ever-vigilant Scottish recruitment machine , however . |
| 53 | In other words , can the web binding production and consumption be conceived as drawn so tight as to collapse the two together ? |