Example sentences of "[adv] far as [v-ing] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | One Columbia University student went as far as writing a paper on the novel and its author and was awarded a respectable grade . |
| 2 | Some schools go as far as appointing a press officer from amongst the staff or the governors . |
| 3 | By 1990 , IGBP had progressed as far as defining a set of seven core projects ( IGBP 1990 ) addressing these four themes . |
| 4 | Did anyone get as far as buying a programme for the Villa game , or did n't they even go on sale ? |
| 5 | Eire is planning to use its forthcoming Presidency of the European Commission to press Britain to embark on a major upgrading of road and rail links between North Wales and the Channel Tunnel , and the Shadow Irish Transport Minister Gay Mitchell has gone as far as proposing an Irish Sea Tunnel to be constructed using Channel Tunnel equipment and an allegedly largely Irish Channel Tunnel workforce . |
| 6 | HOW 'S ABOUT FAT , THEN : The Duchess gets as far as raising a leg but then decides exercise is just too much effort and takes the rest of the sunbathing session lying down |
| 7 | ‘ We 'd only got as far as having a preliminary psyche dissection on Daine , ’ said Trefusis , ‘ but the Yggdrasil probes suggest he had a similar-although far more pronounced — set of personality deformities . |
| 8 | One even went as far as giving a story to a newspaper that the couple would share the same bed in Korea . |
| 9 | ‘ If you want to sell and get as far as enticing a buyer , whoever it is will have the place surveyed , and any surveyor knowing his job will condemn it out of hand . |