Example sentences of "so [adv] as [verb] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 So long as does increase and the organic composition of capital is not increasing rapidly , it will represent future consumption by productive workers , but will still be considered as a part of the surplus-value .
2 All this is , of course , true for others beside old people , and it is no part of the argument to categorise old people so separately as to further stigmatise them .
3 The implication of the argument is that 1823–4 , so far as petitioning to gain mass support was concerned , should be seen primarily as a new start in many places .
4 So far as getting to know her was concerned , it was apparent that Lieutenant Lapointe had achieved a start on him .
5 This country cost her too much ; indeed , she has gone so far as to refuse to discuss the topic .
6 In many cases local authorities have taken the initial steps and some have gone so far as to form housing associations for the specific purpose of transfer .
7 He did not go so far as to offer to guide them onward to Gilsland , by night , since that would have been to insult the Armstrongs , Jardines and Johnstones .
8 Two went so far as to offer to reduce the metered fare after having taken a wrong turn in error .
9 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 .
10 He had left home so hurriedly as to have packed not one of the poetry volumes that he was very seldom without .
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