Example sentences of "[vb mod] go [adv] far [conj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | We 've put those together , we 've looked at the staff that we need to administer that particular level of activity , and we 've come out with a figure that we think is a reasonable estimate , in fact I would go so far as saying , we think this is the lowest estimate that we can safely put forward , as to our needs for the coming year . |
| 32 | She hesitated , then went on , ‘ Yes , Dr Markham , I would go so far as to say that forgetting the past is the only way we 're going to achieve any sort of working relationship . ’ |
| 33 | Peter would go so far and then no further , till I was bright scarlet from Guthrie 's ministrations and nothing from Peter . |
| 34 | In fact , I would go as far as to say he 's a slob . |
| 35 | Not many heads would go as far as one who insists that male members of staff must wear their jackets in classrooms even on the warmest of days . |
| 36 | The list is endless and I would go as far as to say virtually every ‘ Gold Seal ’ is worth its weight in gold . |
| 37 | I would go as far as to argue that , however well-intentioned and humanitarian the people who undertake a socialist revolution , the logic of their ideology , which is of necessity reflected in the institutions which they create , makes totalitarianism inevitable . |
| 38 | 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 . |
| 39 | In particularly weak cases the conciliation officer will go so far as to advise the applicant to withdraw the claim . |
| 40 | The best Ford simulator yet , in fact I will go so far as to say that they could not bring another one out to top this one . |
| 41 | ‘ A good manager and record company has to explain this will go so far and stop . ’ |
| 42 | A man will go so far and then he will snap . |
| 43 | We have , therefore , to consider why marriages effectively end , as well as why couples will go as far as to go to the courts to legally separate , and what social factors underlie the responses to changes in legislation . |
| 44 | John d'Ancona , who has been OSO 's director-general for 12 years , doubts if it will go as far as the creation of a series of OSO clones operating under the DTI umbrella to deal with specific industrial sectors . |
| 45 | Expansion and contraction of awareness may be interdependent , so that ‘ Be aware ’ would not , for example , pronounce waking good but sleeping bad ; when exhaustion is blurring awareness one can go so far as to say ‘ You ought to go to sleep ’ , although only for the sake of waking with refreshed awareness tomorrow . |
| 46 | You can go so far as to say that any words which produce good music constitute a good libretto . |
| 47 | You can go so far as to say that I mean , you will be safe in saying that if your , that as your benefit is suspended your income support for you , not for your family but for you , will be reduced . |
| 48 | ‘ You can go as far as Burnley if you 're old or disabled . ’ |
| 49 | However , with the Land Rover we can go as far as you want . ’ |