Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [adv] [adv] as [to-vb] " in BNC.

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1 By the following winter Michael Horovitz 's New Departures magazine had advanced so far as to put on a live performance at the same venue .
2 By the end of August , Brusilov had advanced so far as to make replenishment of men and matériel difficult , often impossible .
3 Her head was now so bent that her dark hair had swung forwards so as to obscure her expression .
4 Louise had gone so far as to allow him access to her papers and portfolio : he and Simon Scher were working on them now .
5 North once told Secord that he had gone so far as to mention to the President that the Ayatollah was helping the contras .
6 Indeed they had gone so far as to bring one Nicoleyva , from the Soviet Union to plead with British men and women to do just this , and open a second front in Europe .
7 Indeed , Francis Crick had gone so far as to suggest , at least half seriously , that all work in molecular biology and biochemistry on anything else should stop until E. coli was ‘ solved ’ — whatever might be meant by such a solution .
8 The Workshop in Communicative Grammar bore the stamp of its energetic organizer , , who had gone so far as to postpone a Fulbright Fellowship to study with in Pennsylvania in order to bring the planned Workshop to fruition .
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