Example sentences of "go as far as [adj] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ I was n't thinking of going as far as that .
2 Did you have to go as far as that ?
3 While it may not be reasonable to go as far as official opinion , there was some truth in Stalin 's retrospective judgement at the 12th Party Congress :
4 Otherwise , the fieldwork strategy in large-scale quantitative studies must be broadly the same as that of Labov : we need to go as far as possible in obtaining casual styles from informants and to develop ways of distinguishing styles on a continuum from ‘ careful ’ to ‘ casual ’ style .
5 It is not company policy to go as far as this . ’
6 Most of these bars have live music , and all have staggered happy hours ( or is it happy stagger hour ? ! ) , so with a bit of forward planning we make sure your budget goes as far as possible .
7 Nutley ( 1982 ) , analysing these data , suggests that decline may have proceeded mainly by frequency reductions which have not gone as far as complete closures .
8 Moreover having gone as far as this I do not believe that it would be possible for me to hold the line and refuse to answer any further questions about the composition and activities of the Committees .
9 At the end of this period matters had by no means gone as far as this , for the growth of political parties in eighteenth-century England was curiously erratic .
10 ‘ I wouldn'a go as far as that , ’ Reid reproved me .
11 Some amateur associations went as far as legal prosecution to prevent any payment or pro fit being derived from the activities they controlled .
12 I would not go as far as one group which makes ‘ coupleness and a sense of call in husband and wife ’ one of their ten non-negotiables for church planters .
13 ‘ I would n't go as far as that . ’
14 Then he looked up with a solemn expression and replied : ‘ Well , I would n't go as far as that . ’
15 No I would n't go as far as that anyway but I 'm saying they 're in the wrong it 's not you in the wrong , they 're in
16 Some of the migrants may only go as far as southern Europe .
17 I do appreciate the discount since CPRW is a charity and we try to make our funds go as far as possible .
18 The question of images in churches was further addressed by two sets of injunctions issued by Cromwell in 1536 and 1538 , but even here the reforms did not go as far as some iconophobes would have liked , as they drew back from condemning all images and denounced only those that encouraged ‘ superstition and hypocrisy ’ and ‘ that most detestable sin of idolatry ’ .
19 They do not go as far as some countries , who plan to make actual cuts in emissions rates .
20 The SACHR said that affirmative action should go as far as positive discrimination , e.g. the tie break , but this is not in the legislation .
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