Example sentences of "go [adv] far as [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | But though none might be prepared to go so far as that , all British parties would quickly realize that apparent discrimination against women in their lists would do them a lot of harm . |
2 | ‘ I was n't thinking of going as far as that . |
3 | Did you have to go as far as that ? |
4 | 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 : |
5 | 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 . |
6 | It is not company policy to go as far as this . ’ |
7 | 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 . |
8 | No other state went so far as this ; but then none needed to , for none started from the same position of isolation and estrangement from the outside world . |
9 | We can not go so far as that ; and I lay it down as fact that there never has been a real complete sceptic . |
10 | But we need not go so far as that ; it will suffice to suppose that firms rise and fall , but that the ‘ representative ’ firm remains always of about the same size , as does the representative tree of a virgin forest . [ … ] |
11 | At present the authorities have not gone so far as this . |
12 | Nutley ( 1982 ) , analysing these data , suggests that decline may have proceeded mainly by frequency reductions which have not gone as far as complete closures . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | ‘ I wouldn'a go as far as that , ’ Reid reproved me . |
16 | Some amateur associations went as far as legal prosecution to prevent any payment or pro fit being derived from the activities they controlled . |
17 | 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 . |
18 | ‘ I would n't go as far as that . ’ |
19 | Then he looked up with a solemn expression and replied : ‘ Well , I would n't go as far as that . ’ |
20 | 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 |
21 | Some of the migrants may only go as far as southern Europe . |
22 | I do appreciate the discount since CPRW is a charity and we try to make our funds go as far as possible . |
23 | 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 ’ . |
24 | They do not go as far as some countries , who plan to make actual cuts in emissions rates . |
25 | 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 . |