Example sentences of "far [subord] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One former American Secretary of State has gone so far as to characterise the Armed Forces as an institution ‘ operating entirely outside Party control ’ . |
| 2 | Could death education ever go this far as to teach the bereaved how to dig a grave and incidentally earn a discount ? |
| 3 | In the second half of the nineteenth century such sentiments had fostered the growth of a small but vigorous school of Siberian regionalist writers and political activists ( oblastniki ) , some of whom had even gone so far as to envisage the complete political separation of Siberia from Russia and the establishment of a new , independent Siberian republic . |
| 4 | So far as minimising the environmental effects was concerned the WO encouraged planning authorities to discuss problems with them at an early stage . |
| 5 | John Maynard Smith went so far as to submit the super-forgiving Tit for Two Tats . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | So far as ranking the relative seriousness of sexual assaults is concerned , however , full account should be taken of the psychological effects of such offences . |
| 8 | As far as restarting the musical life in Vienna was concerned , we had the problem that the occupying forces often contradicted each other . |
| 9 | So far as concerns the mental state of the owner ( did he consent ? ) , the Act of 1968 expressly refers to such consent when it is a material factor : see sections 2(1) ( b ) , 11(1) , 12(1) and 13 . |
| 10 | So far as concerns the mental state of the accused , the composite phrase in section 1(1) itself indicates that the requirement is dishonesty . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Conservative Luis Percovich , then Interior Minister , went so far as to hail the barefoot business people as the harbingers of a ‘ new Peru ’ . |
| 13 | In such cases the court should not apply the strict construction so far as to make the whole clause void or invalid or unenforceable . |