Example sentences of "so [adv] as [to-vb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 61 | 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 . |
| 62 | And Glasgow City Council even went so far as to make the rave an official 1990 European City of Culture happening . |
| 63 | In such cases the court should not apply the strict construction so far as to make the whole clause void or invalid or unenforceable . |
| 64 | Archbishop Fisher went so far as to write a very tough letter to the editor in defence of Ramsey . |
| 65 | 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 . ’ |
| 66 | Conservative Luis Percovich , then Interior Minister , went so far as to hail the barefoot business people as the harbingers of a ‘ new Peru ’ . |
| 67 | CA has also try to get Borland , Kahn said , going so far as to threaten a hostile takeover . |
| 68 | Borland International Inc chief executive officer Phillipe Kahn told InformationWeek that Computer Associates International Inc wined and dined Novell Inc boss Ray Noorda in an attempt to acquire the NetWare company : Kahn said Noorda quoted an inflated price and chief Computer Associate Charles Wang and executive vice-president Sanjay Kumar stormed away from the table ; the Islandia , New York company has also try to get Borland , Kahn said , going so far as to threaten a hostile takeover bid for the company . |
| 69 | 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 . |
| 70 | 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 ’ . |
| 71 | Not so quietly as to escape the attention of the ever-vigilant Scottish recruitment machine , however . |
| 72 | In other words , can the web binding production and consumption be conceived as drawn so tight as to collapse the two together ? |