Example sentences of "so far as [to-vb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I 've heard it repeated on the radio recently and even the Secretary of State did n't go so far as to use the ninety percent figure but was talking about the seriously mentally ill and the not so seriously mentally ill . |
| 32 | Indeed , the Broadwater Farm Youth Association has expressed its concern about the situation to the police on a number of occasions , and in August 1989 went so far as to close the youth centre on the estate for some time in an effort to stop dealers congregating there . |
| 33 | In the summer of 1101 , faced with Robert 's landing in England and the immediate prospect of widespread desertion , Henry went so far as to promise a general obedience to the papal decrees , and it seems likely that Anselm 's activity on his behalf , secured by this promise , turned the tide in his favour , and brought Duke Robert 's invasion to a halt . |
| 34 | the right of privacy did not extend so far as to confer a protected right on consenting adults to pursue their own choice in the matter of watching obscene and pornographic motion pictures within a theatre … [ even one ] not open to minors and which gave patrons due notice of the kind of entertainment provided . |
| 35 | Indeed , one of the characters even goes so far as to advocate an aleatory literature which , abandoning all pretence of saying anything , would provide the reader with dice and a random list of words and leave him/her to make of it what he/she may . |
| 36 | When his first wife died in 1751 , he went so far as to obtain a licence to marry a certain Hannah Laskey . |
| 37 | In one of her baffling letters Herta goes so far as to question the legality of the work we are doing here . |
| 38 | Again the immigration people questioned him about his occupation , even going so far as to check the word antiquarian in an English-Spanish dictionary . |
| 39 | On at least one occasion , he went so far as to express the hope that his own son would succeed him as monarch . |
| 40 | Moreover , the North American Securities Administration Association has gone so far as to accuse the South Pacific micro-states of Nauru , Vanuatu , Tonga and the Marshall and Northern Mariana Islands of being ‘ international centres of prostitute banking ’ . |
| 41 | In an Assize Sermon delivered at Leicester in 1682 , Thomas Ashenden , rector of Dingley ( Northants ) , even went so far as to accuse the King of being too soft on Dissent : " our present divisions , and our manifold menacing mischiefs " , he argued , " we may chiefly date from the late Toleration " , which " allowances proceed from Royal mercy " , and he claimed that the strength for rebellion had come " from the Breasts of Royal Indulgence " . |
| 42 | Over a hasty but adequate meal , the situation and plans were discussed , Black Agnes approving heartily , almost gleefully , indeed going so far as to add an improvement of her own . |
| 43 | They did not go so far as to learn the language of the peoples they studied , but they did spell out for later writers the ground rules of such research . |
| 44 | The British even , at the eleventh hour , went so far as to change the rules to allow a republic , by definition owing no allegiance to the British Crown , to be a member . |
| 45 | Nonetheless , the limits of the state 's autonomy would seem to be very wide , and Block goes so far as to postulate a ‘ tipping mechanism ’ which could allow the state to take a social formation away from the capitalist mode of production . |
| 46 | George V tried to dissuade him from this course and indeed went so far as to register a formal protest : |
| 47 | In particularly weak cases the conciliation officer will go so far as to advise the applicant to withdraw the claim . |
| 48 | Other jingo socialists went so far as to attribute the same view to Winston Churchill , quoting him as saying : |
| 49 | You might , for instance have to alter the way the murder you had in mind is committed or you might have to go so far as to alter the motive of the murderer or even find a completely different person to commit the central action . |
| 50 | A punch should not extend so far as to throw the puncher off balance , nor should a block be carried more than six inches above the head . |
| 51 | Emily swallowed hard , how could she lower her pride so far as to approach the girl she had been so scornful of ? |
| 52 | Their discussions included the merger of the Falange and the Traditionalist movement and they went so far as to commission a draft document outlining the project . |
| 53 | The Geagea-controlled television station , LBC , went so far as to show every film ever made about Hitler . |
| 54 | In January 1881 he went so far as to recommend the involvement of zemstvo and municipal duma representatives in commissions appointed to consider reform of peasant affairs and local government . |
| 55 | In 1831 and 1833 he went so far as to attack the Turks , until Britain and Russia intervened to protect the Ottoman empire from disintegration . |
| 56 | The Workshop in Communicative Grammar bore the stamp of its energetic organizer , , who had gone so far as to postpone a Fulbright Fellowship to study with in Pennsylvania in order to bring the planned Workshop to fruition . |
| 57 | Some translators of the Bible have gone so far as to postpone the main verb until the divine fiat : And God said , Let there be light . |
| 58 | In fact , the Conducator went so far as to command the peasants to ‘ maintain the customs and dress of our great-great fore-bears , so that they shall always be in our memory . |
| 59 | Educated , urban Spaniards demanded institutional and constitutional reforms , some going so far as to favour the monarchy 's replacement by a republic ; in Catalonia and the Basque country , where distinctive languages and cultures existed , rising nationalist movements opposed the regime 's centralizing character ; in Morocco , Spain and her army became embroiled in what was to be her last colonial war ; and two mass forces of the left , socialism and anarchism , emerged to offer organized protest against the injustices of Spanish society . |
| 60 | And Glasgow City Council even went so far as to make the rave an official 1990 European City of Culture happening . |