Example sentences of "could [adv] [vb infin] so [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sanitary legislation could only go so far in monitoring personal health ; what was vital was a popular campaign stressing the individual 's own responsibility to observe the rules of health . |
| 2 | Because of his Cartesianism , Malebranche could not go so far as to say that material objects were not really extended or in motion , but Pierre Bayle had argued that such restraint was unjustifiable . |
| 3 | Even Amabel could not go so far as to trouble Gemma . |
| 4 | We then asked him , if he could not go so far as to meet us in full , to introduce an empowering provision . |
| 5 | He found that personal exchanges with the French could not flow so freely : interruptions for translation disturbed the train of thought . |
| 6 | I could not do so honourably . |
| 7 | It stated clearly that a flat rate charge could not cope with the scale of local authority expenditure and that it could not do so fairly . |
| 8 | Marcelle Fayette hated tea , but one could not say so under present circumstances . |
| 9 | I could not act so selfishly . ’ |
| 10 | On the one hand , his invasiveness of Johnson triggers an immediate cringe : on the other , were not Boswell so crass so frequently , his readers could not get so close to Johnson . |
| 11 | He did not see how we could possibly do so under modern conditions . ' |
| 12 | If authoritarian welfare states fulfilled these atavistic needs in the Neolithic , there is every reason to believe that they could still do so today ; and certainly there is much evidence to show that modern police states , far from merely fulfilling some of the same psychological functions , even mimic their Neolithic forerunners in the details of their ritual and symbolism , and certainly seem to evolve their own thorough-going political religions . |
| 13 | It had always distressed him that the West and the Eastern bloc could both budget so generously for what he considered to be the evils of the nuclear industry while millions in the Third World were left wanting for food . |
| 14 | We could n't go so easily to theatre , opera or ballet , for it was painful for Michael to remain long in one position . |
| 15 | Though I could n't go so far as to say that service was included as all the waiters seemed interested in was getting the lights off so they could dance with Sorrel . |
| 16 | ‘ I am so certain of my place here that I would have resigned anyway , and now I have good reason three times over … my nerve had already failed twice , and could n't do so again … . ’ |
| 17 | Surely the news could n't travel so fast ; but even as she emerged from the restaurant , the night manager was hovering in the foyer with a vague , Oh-shit-don't-tell-me look on his face . |
| 18 | In her heart of hearts Celia knew that she had n't really come to terms with her condition at all , but she could n't say so point-blank to Alison . |
| 19 | As Rune laughed at her discomfort she was filled with a sudden urge to fling herself at him : wipe the laughter from his face , annihilate the sudden disarming dimples which had appeared beneath his lean cheeks , seal his mouth so that the corners could n't turn so distractingly upwards at her expense . |
| 20 | But one could never speak so directly to a woman . |