Example sentences of "so far [conj] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Archbishop Fisher went so far as to tell him that he was a possible future Archbishop of Canterbury . |
| 32 | So far as overcoming your own tendencies to resist change , it is best to have some limbering up exercises that you inflict on yourself from time to time . |
| 33 | However , even by the middle years of the nineteenth century an industrial city like Manchester had not expanded so far as to prevent its mill workers walking in the country on Sundays . |
| 34 | We then asked him , if he could not go so far as to meet us in full , to introduce an empowering provision . |
| 35 | ( b ) On the other hand the courts will not carry a literal construction of the articles so far as to defeat their obvious purpose . |
| 36 | ‘ I am to be questioned and interfered with and hounded , not to be left , doing a job of work the way I choose , a necessary job , a job our sister has made tediously inevitable , a job the result of which may save us from potential disgrace , even if we can not go so far as to expect it to improve our situation out of all recognition . |
| 37 | Toby went so far as to straighten his back . |
| 38 | For another , Gombrich was unfailingly courteous and informative , without , however , going so far as to make his interviewer sound good . |
| 39 | Never before had he gone so far and labelled himself an alcoholic . |