Example sentences of "[adv] go so " in BNC.
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| 1 | Grammar , as I pointed out in the preceding chapter , can only go so far . |
| 2 | Likewise it is smarter of the donkey to explain calmly that it can only go so fast , than to keep trying to bite its owner . |
| 3 | Sanitary legislation could only go so far in monitoring personal health ; what was vital was a popular campaign stressing the individual 's own responsibility to observe the rules of health . |
| 4 | Well there 's the gate , he can only go so far with the gate anyway , so it wo n't really matter yeah yeah you ought to see all the pegs at the back of me fridge |
| 5 | We can only go so far as union negotiators . |
| 6 | you could only go so , yeah and |
| 7 | It does n't always go so smoothly . |
| 8 | Of course , things did not always go so smoothly . |
| 9 | If Iran was provoked , why did it also go so publicly out of its way to stress its respect for Iraq 's territorial integrity ? |
| 10 | ‘ Would he really go so far ? ’ |
| 11 | We might even go so far as to say that amplification of deviance among one group rather than among another could simply be due to chance . |
| 12 | We 'd even go so far as throwing modesty to the wind , and say you wo n't find better value for money holidays or flights anywhere else . |
| 13 | I 'd even go so far as to say I 'm falling in love . |
| 14 | Indeed , one might even go so far as to say that , were it not for the ‘ discovery ’ of Siberia 's seemingly inexhaustible resources of ‘ soft gold ’ , that is , an abundance of fur-bearing mammals — in particular the highly-prized sable — the Muscovite government would have been without the economic foundation for the growth of its political power . |
| 15 | We might almost go so far as to say that Lyly has embroidered an elaborate garment round the simple idea " Euphues was a young coxcomb " . |
| 16 | One may indeed go so far as to assert that the Japanese occupation of Indochina was the key issue in the conflict between Japan and the US which led to the attack at Pearl Harbor ; and after what was , initially , a rather lofty approach to the problems of Indochina and Southeast Asian security , America 's final demand that Japan remove its forces from both China and Indochina ( 26 November 1941 ) was met with the equally final Japanese rejection which manifested itself at Pearl Harbor and the invasion of Southeast Asia . |
| 17 | In 1967 too the Warsaw Pact states declared that West Germany should recognise East Germany as the first step to meaningful détente but Brandt could not yet go so far : most West Germans still hoped for the reunification of Germany . |