Example sentences of "went so far as [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 61 | An English handbook written in 1980 even went so far as to state : ‘ The enjoyment of looking ( what we call the aesthetic experience ) is , in fact , the core of the discipline known as Art History . ’ |
| 62 | He went so far as to state that had Hougoumont fallen , the battle might well have been lost . |
| 63 | One journalist went so far as to assert , ‘ Carter should have little trouble with Congress ’ , while Professor Ross Baker noted that ‘ the basic elements are in place for a highly satisfactory relationship between Carter and Congress … there is no reason to forecast discord between the White House and Capitol Hill . |
| 64 | Toby went so far as to straighten his back . |
| 65 | He went so far as to bang on the door of Evert 's home in an effort to see Steffi . |
| 66 | One writer in 1766 even went so far as to propose that canals be required to end short of their planned destinations . |
| 67 | Indeed , they went so far as to propose that there should be a separate planning code for minerals . |
| 68 | Perceived as ‘ weak ’ and ‘ lonely ’ , one respondent went so far as to condemn raisins as ‘ embarrassing to be seen with in public ’ ! |
| 69 | Hilaire Belloc , often ambivalent towards the Jewish people , went so far as to condemn Chesterton 's ethnic slurs . |
| 70 | 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 . |
| 71 | Two went so far as to offer to reduce the metered fare after having taken a wrong turn in error . |
| 72 | 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 . |
| 73 | 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 . |
| 74 | Peel reckoned with the prospect of violent conflict between the Government and the trade unions ; and went so far as to enquire into the practicability of organizing the middle classes against them . |
| 75 | He even went so far as to demand universal manhood suffrage and annually-elected parliaments . |
| 76 | At the end of 1854 another Slavophile , Iurii Samarin , went so far as to speak up for peasants who murdered their landlords . |
| 77 | Archbishop Fisher went so far as to write a very tough letter to the editor in defence of Ramsey . |
| 78 | In June 1960 he went so far as to write to Ashby himself — by then Sir Eric and the Master of Clare College , Cambridge — setting out the case and asking whether he would make personal representations to the Minister to secure unilateral treatment for the Eastern District . |
| 79 | And Glasgow City Council even went so far as to make the rave an official 1990 European City of Culture happening . |
| 80 | Lydia even went so far as to bathe it in vinegar at Betty 's behest . |
| 81 | Hayes and Garvin ( 1982 ) , for example , went so far as to blame the growing use of DCF for the relative decline in the performance of Western businesses . |
| 82 | On at least one occasion , he went so far as to express the hope that his own son would succeed him as monarch . |
| 83 | Furthermore , he went so far as to express readiness to try to gain approval from Falkenhayn for the termination of all operations at Verdun . |
| 84 | Concerning thunder rites , Harrison even went so far as to quote Durkheim 's ‘ Le sacré , c'est le père du dieu . ’ |
| 85 | Conservative Luis Percovich , then Interior Minister , went so far as to hail the barefoot business people as the harbingers of a ‘ new Peru ’ . |
| 86 | Like a beggar , he went so far as to pluck at Meredith 's sleeve . |
| 87 | For various reasons the main one of which was a lack of understanding of our problems , our local administration were often unsympathetic and went so far as to accuse us of non co-operation at times , especially in the matter of rest days . |
| 88 | 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 " . |
| 89 | When his first wife died in 1751 , he went so far as to obtain a licence to marry a certain Hannah Laskey . |
| 90 | Archbishop Fisher went so far as to tell him that he was a possible future Archbishop of Canterbury . |