Example sentences of "as far [subord] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | One Columbia University student went as far as writing a paper on the novel and its author and was awarded a respectable grade . |
| 2 | Some schools go as far as appointing a press officer from amongst the staff or the governors . |
| 3 | By 1990 , IGBP had progressed as far as defining a set of seven core projects ( IGBP 1990 ) addressing these four themes . |
| 4 | Barclay 's has gone as far as to create a ‘ high technology ’ unit to examine requests for finance from possible customers . |
| 5 | The Greek governing party , PASOK , went as far as to create a ‘ Green Guard ’ around the Premier Papandreou . |
| 6 | She did n't go as far as to say a nice warm man to slip into bed with , but that was not far from her mind . |
| 7 | Did anyone get as far as buying a programme for the Villa game , or did n't they even go on sale ? |
| 8 | HOW 'S ABOUT FAT , THEN : The Duchess gets as far as raising a leg but then decides exercise is just too much effort and takes the rest of the sunbathing session lying down |
| 9 | At one point he even went as far as to tell a group of American diplomats that he expected the United States to take over the " primary role " which the British had hitherto held in the Middle East . |
| 10 | ‘ We 'd only got as far as having a preliminary psyche dissection on Daine , ’ said Trefusis , ‘ but the Yggdrasil probes suggest he had a similar-although far more pronounced — set of personality deformities . |
| 11 | One even went as far as giving a story to a newspaper that the couple would share the same bed in Korea . |
| 12 | ‘ If you want to sell and get as far as enticing a buyer , whoever it is will have the place surveyed , and any surveyor knowing his job will condemn it out of hand . |