Example sentences of "even go so far as [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cusick even goes so far as to venture an empathy between the teams Verity Lambert assembled to work on the series . |
| 2 | She even goes so far as to say her grandmother does the warm-up exercises , using tins of soup instead of weights , though her husband Richard Gere sticks to Tai Chi and riding his bike . |
| 3 | Indeed , one of the characters even goes so far as to advocate an aleatory literature which , abandoning all pretence of saying anything , would provide the reader with dice and a random list of words and leave him/her to make of it what he/she may . |
| 4 | He even goes so far as to fabricate his signature in a way similar to Pound 's , so that it forms a kind of hieroglyph . |
| 5 | The recent Report of the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution even goes so far as to recommend that straw burning should be banned in five years time . |
| 6 | But , as Mr Nearn points out , it is a driver 's car , and motoring journalists have heaped it with praise for many years , one even going so far as to say that your smile ‘ will need surgically removing ’ after driving one . |
| 7 | ‘ For now , it seems , the prince has revealed to Sir Thomas the depth of his regard for you — even going so far as to say that if in due course he may not marry yourself , he will remain unwed . |
| 8 | ( One Judge even going so far as to say , ‘ In ten years ' time , 1989 may well be seen as the year when Vauxhall redefined the sports coupé . ’ ) |
| 9 | Again the immigration people questioned him about his occupation , even going so far as to check the word antiquarian in an English-Spanish dictionary . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | I 'd even go so far as to say I 'm falling in love . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Nay , they even go so far as to lay odds that before Christmas he lands a force in England or Ireland . |
| 14 | Some even go so far as to link its emergence to the coming of reggae music to Britain , circa 1970 , and the first reggae film widely seen in Britain , Perry Henzell 's ( 1972 ) The Harder They Come starring Jimmy Cliff . |
| 15 | Some farmers even go so far as to grow continuous cereal crops indefinitely — barley on the lighter land and winter wheat on the strong clays . |
| 16 | Some even went so far as to stipulate the use of linen in their will : Hannah Deane of High Ongar , Essex , took account of the £5 fine when drawing up her instructions in 1784 : ‘ And I do hereby Order and direct that sum of Ten pound shall be paid to the person who shall … see me Inclosed and laid in my Coffin in Linen and shall give Information and make Oath thereof wheereby the Poor of the parish Will be intitled to the sum of fifty shilling … . ’ |
| 17 | Mr. Philipson also submitted that the Bank of England could properly exercise their supervisory powers under the Act without the breaching of customers ' confidences , and even went so far as to submit that the Schedule 3 information could be so furnished by clothing details of customers ' loans or deposits with anonymity . |
| 18 | In a passage which reads very oddly indeed today and betrays his naïveté , Durkheim even went so far as to claim that such was the depressing degree of homogeneity in primitive society that its members were actually physically indistinguishable from each other ! |
| 19 | He even went so far as to say he missed her and Pilade , and would be glad to be home . |
| 20 | He even went so far as to say that he would n't do the picture without her . |
| 21 | An English handbook written in 1980 even went so far as to state : ‘ The enjoyment of looking ( what we call the aesthetic experience ) is , in fact , the core of the discipline known as Art History . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ We even went so far as to put together a group and do some touring ; we did a club tour of the States and a mini-tour in Japan , too . |
| 23 | In 1991 , Mrs Virginia Bottomley , then minister for health , even went so far as to use section 118 as the reason for not being able to give parliament information about the production and distribution of counterfeit medicines . |
| 24 | The British War Cabinet even went so far as to create a special committee to guide Swinton during the talks . |
| 25 | In another study of migrants in central Wales , Jones ( 1965 ) even went so far as to test all of Ravenstein 's laws , but he could only definitely confirm Laws 1 and 5 , which argue that most migrants only travel a short distance , but that those who do travel further migrate to the great centres of commerce and industry . |
| 26 | Lydia even went so far as to bathe it in vinegar at Betty 's behest . |
| 27 | Jean raged and argued , and even went so far as to attempt tenderness in her effort to get Ted back to ordinary but working unhappiness . |
| 28 | And Glasgow City Council even went so far as to make the rave an official 1990 European City of Culture happening . |
| 29 | Concerning thunder rites , Harrison even went so far as to quote Durkheim 's ‘ Le sacré , c'est le père du dieu . ’ |
| 30 | He even went so far as to imprison Rodrigo 's wife Ximena , and his children ; and though he soon released them he refused to listen to El Cid 's demand to settle his innocence by right of combat . |