Example sentences of "far as [to-vb] [conj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dally goes as far as to state that it indicates a bad prognosis for the disease , but I am glad to be able to report that although my jealousy continued into my adolescence , including the anorexic period , it did not deter my recovery , and that my sisters and I are now the best of friends . |
| 2 | Anyway , Great-Aunt Jane shared everyone 's low opinion of John Bell for a time , even going as far as to declare that he was n't right in his head . |
| 3 | They tell me that Mr. Stavanger has a magnificent record , and is very highly thought of in shipping circles — indeed , they went so far as to say that they 'd recommend the bank 's board to support him through thick and thin . |
| 4 | The best Ford simulator yet , in fact I will go so far as to say that they could not bring another one out to top this one . |
| 5 | Will my right hon. Friend go as far as to say that we definitely intend in the fulness of time to bring in legislation and , I hope , include in the legislation the provision that there should be at least one employee representative among pension fund trustees ? |
| 6 | ‘ I 'd go so far as to say that you 're wasting your time even to think of applying for custody . ’ |
| 7 | I would wager that he goes so far as to say that I broke down in his room , stuttering out the words of my so-called confession between chokes and tears , unable to speak properly . |
| 8 | Bill : I do n't know if anybody feels they have , but this is a thing which I felt was central to the gay movement of the seventies and I think I would go so far as to say that I assume that most of my close friends feel , like Mark , that it 's fine to have special relationships but it is n't fine to have ones where you are n't allowed to have anything else and also that there 's nothing more deadly to a relationship when you are trying desperately not to have it off with anybody else because you feel guilty about it . |
| 9 | You can go so far as to say that I mean , you will be safe in saying that if your , that as your benefit is suspended your income support for you , not for your family but for you , will be reduced . |
| 10 | One tabloid , threatened since with a writ , went as far as to say that he would not be able to find such a sum . |
| 11 | Indeed , he went so far as to say that he was almost dreading stepping on to the golf course , full of grim forebodings on the practice ground and no better on the practice green . |
| 12 | He even went so far as to say that he would n't do the picture without her . |
| 13 | SSL is claimed to be very difficult for ( hearing ) adults to learn ; some go so far as to say that it is impossible . |
| 14 | Talking to Andre Malraux years later , Picasso went so far as to say that it was on this occasion that he all of a sudden received the revelation of why he was a painter at all and that ‘ I realized what painting was all about ’ . |
| 15 | Fitzgerald herself does not go so far as to suggest that they should not be used at all . |
| 16 | Even so , if you consider the pressures contingent on me that night , you may not think I delude myself unduly if I go so far as to suggest that I did perhaps display , in the face of everything , at least in some modest degree a ‘ dignity ’ worthy of someone like Mr Marshall — or come to that , my father . |