Example sentences of "[adv] far [conj] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In another study of migrants in central Wales , Jones ( 1965 ) even went so far as to test all of Ravenstein 's laws , but he could only definitely confirm Laws 1 and 5 , which argue that most migrants only travel a short distance , but that those who do travel further migrate to the great centres of commerce and industry . |
| 2 | An editorial recently went so far as to say that more important than establishing a framework for research and development was doing something about the failure to disseminate and apply existing knowledge . |
| 3 | We might even go so far as to say that amplification of deviance among one group rather than among another could simply be due to chance . |
| 4 | So I think it 's easy to see that religion fulfils this civilizing socially controlling role , but of course , this has been a popular theme in sociological writing in the course of the twentieth century , indeed , you could go so far as to say this , it is has become a cliche , in twentieth century social science . |
| 5 | Sensing the dangers of such rivalry , the Communists intensified their attack on the ILP , going so far as to declare that disaffiliation was but a temporary manoeuvre . |
| 6 | The mitigation of the law was at first carried so far as to sacrifice that object , said J.S. Mill . |
| 7 | I will go so far as to concede that taken in isolation , ripped away from the defining context of humour and irony and friendship , studied in their literal or surface sense only , then , yes , the words I spoke in that room as Robert stood at the window pretending to take me seriously could be understood to mean that during the past six or seven years I had gone to bed with more than one hundred and fifty prostitutes . |
| 8 | Indeed , some people have gone so far as to elevate these restrictions on the initial conditions and the parameters to the status of a principle , the anthropic principle , which can be paraphrased as , ‘ Things are as they are because we are . |
| 9 | The recent Report of the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution even goes so far as to recommend that straw burning should be banned in five years time . |
| 10 | He was even prepared to go so far as to admit that monotony was the most comfortable way . |
| 11 | Well , if you are typical of your birth sign , you will have already made up your mind and taken your leave around August 6th , when it became apparent that certain associates had sided against you or even gone so far as to hatch some kind of plot . |
| 12 | Scrap the thing so far and begin another . |
| 13 | They had n't got as far as stating any intention on that subject — for the simple reason that marriage had n't been part of the plan . |
| 14 | ‘ We will only go as far as suggesting some of the market leaders like Sage and Pegasus , then we let the customers decide ’ . |
| 15 | It 's , it 's a very simple organism , but basically what it 's there for is to ensure the future of T four genes , and this is what i it 's doing , and presumably natural selection has er selected it in such a way that it is an optimum design as far as , as far as doing this er is concerned , because it would be in competition with mutant T fours who did it in different ways , and presumably this is the kind of T four that seems to succeed . |
| 16 | Anyone who has got as far as saying this , has already thrown the first proposition overboard , because if it is ‘ the responsibility of management to do everything possible to keep prices stable or reduce prices ’ , then we would not need a commission to tell us that managements which raise prices are falling down on their responsibility . |
| 17 | She had n't got this far nor worked this hard just to give up at the thought of some sort of opposition . |