Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [adv] [adv] as [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By next morning I 'd only got as far as realising that I had to talk you round . ’ |
| 2 | Even my wharped mind had only got as far as thinking . |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . |
| 4 | However , even by the middle years of the nineteenth century an industrial city like Manchester had not expanded so far as to prevent its mill workers walking in the country on Sundays . |
| 5 | This sector of the market has not expanded as rapidly as expected . |
| 6 | Even then , he had not got as far as thinking what would be the music that introduced the News and all at once the screen was filled with a picture of his own house , a picture that nearly jolted him out of his skin . |
| 7 | High average wind speeds tend to stunt the upward growth of plants and encourage the lateral growth of dwarf forms , e.g. of Calluna vulgaris or Juniperus communis , though prostrate forms of the former are not encountered as frequently as expected on exposed mountain plateaux . |
| 8 | The courts have not gone so far as to give a cause of action in damages for the breach of such a promise , but they have refused to allow the party making it to act inconsistently with it . |
| 9 | Some providers have already gone as far as to produce prospectuses outlining their services . |
| 10 | However , even if bus networks have not declined as markedly as has , say , the rail network , frequency of services has usually declined and fares have increased . |
| 11 | No , I must say that things have now gone so far as to justify me in feeling considerable uneasiness about his continued absence . ’ |
| 12 | They had n't got as far as stating any intention on that subject — for the simple reason that marriage had n't been part of the plan . |
| 13 | Once he had even got as far as adding ‘ before you … ’ and then tailed off into his private grumbles . |
| 14 | ‘ THE shareholders must be hoping the bank has n't gone as far as to give him a company credit card ’ — Labour leader John Smith , on ex-Chancellor Norman Lamont 's new employer , Rothschilds Bank . |
| 15 | Potrovsky had waxed and polished the car the night before and had even gone as far as to iron the two pennants which flew on either side of the bonnet . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | One bar had even gone so far as to put a few tables outside , and on impulse Zen settled down to enjoy the sunlight and watch the show on the Corso . |
| 18 | by no means ‘ lightly advancing thro ’ her star-trimm 'd crowd' — he had even gone so far as to look up Lantor 's lines about Ianthe — but perhaps women could n't be expected always to live up to what poets wrote about them . |
| 19 | Some dealers have even gone so far as to pass off their businesses as zoos ( see BBC WILDLIFE , November , p798 ) . |
| 20 | Some ingenious souls have even gone so far as to suggest that the correct attitude to fat , which makes sense in nutritional , agronomic and culinary terms is to aim in general at eating a low-fat diet , and at one in which most of the fat in the diet is polyunsaturated : but to ensure that the small amount of saturated fat that did creep in is as delectable as possible , which , of course , with slight deference to beef dripping , means butter . |
| 21 | One ARENA spokesman has even gone so far as to suggest that there are nine to ten women in the party for every man . |
| 22 | It had once even gone so far as to empty him on to the floor for voicing an intolerant opinion on the Jesuits . |
| 23 | Well , if you are typical of your birth sign , you will have already made up your mind and taken your leave around August 6th , when it became apparent that certain associates had sided against you or even gone so far as to hatch some kind of plot . |
| 24 | This makes sense : war and politics were perceived by lay participants as subject to supernatural interventions that could be magically invoked as well as interpreted — hence the important role of churchmen and their rituals in these areas of public contestation and conflict , for instance in not just the retrospective presentation but the preliminary " staging " of battles as Judgements of God . |
| 25 | No , he had n't seen her for a week before that weekend ; he had missed her — this with a baleful glance towards the door — and had indeed got as far as ringing her up on the Saturday morning , hoping she would come up for Sunday , but had got no answer from her flat . |
| 26 | The highest rating was £100 a year , the next 100 marks , which was equated with ‘ other ’ landowners of £100 , the implication perhaps being that the latter had not yet got as far as quartering their arms . |
| 27 | The lateral sclerites usually comprise two plates on either side , closely hinged together so as to form a fulcrum between the head and prothorax . |
| 28 | In enamel these crystals are very closely and beautifully packed together so as to constitute 99 per cent by volume of the material . |
| 29 | In all my years on newspapers , I 've never gone as far as breaking and entering . |
| 30 | One such protagonist has recently gone so far as to claim that Aristotle 's Phantasmata — the mental images that are involved in most or all mental activities — are identical with the symbols on which computational procedures are carried out . |