Example sentences of "went [adv] far as [verb] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Desmond Heap , in his 1955 presidential address to the ( then ) Town Planning Institute went so far as to declare that the preservation of Green belts was ‘ the very raison d'etre of town and country planning ’ . |
| 2 | In the early 1960s a number of economists went so far as to argue that growth had to be export-led [ Kaldor , 1971 ] . |
| 3 | In 1757 Postlethwayt went so far as to argue that the national debt had had the effect of transferring property to the " money-mongers " at such a pace that , " Since our debts have taken place , not near one tenth of the land of England is possessed by the posterity or heirs of those who possessed it at the Revolution . " |
| 4 | But he never went so far as to say that his intention was to qualify for legal aid , the court said . |
| 5 | Peter Robinson went so far as to say that until late 1974 ‘ there was no party ’ . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Maslow went so far as to say that ill people who treat their fellow men with kindness are forces for mental health and those who disdain or belittle other men are forces for mental illness . |
| 8 | He even went so far as to say that he would n't do the picture without her . |
| 9 | Indeed , some Keynesians went so far as to say that money is unimport-ant since it only exerts an influence on economic activity via interest rates , and then without much success . |
| 10 | Those extreme inductivists , the logical positivists , went so far as to say that theories only have meaning insofar as they can be verified by direct observation . |
| 11 | One writer went so far as to say that this construction ‘ flies in the face of the settled interpretation of this provision . ’ |
| 12 | 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 ’ . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | In fact , one adherent of the New Cambridge School , Lord Kaldor ( 1980 ) , went so far as to say that there is no empirical support for a high PSBR leading either to substantial growth in money supply or to high rates of interest . |
| 15 | Again perceptions of the value of these interviews differed , but one teacher went so far as to say that if it needed an appraisal to bring these advisers into the school then it was worth it . |
| 16 | Tolstoy went so far as to say that " He who was not alive in the Russia of 1856 does not know what life is " . |
| 17 | Indeed , he went so far as to say that Britain 's justice system had been badly bruised by the Government 's failure in this respect . |
| 18 | Cranmer indeed went so far as to claim that : ‘ where the word of God was adversary and against his authority , pomp , covetousness , idolatry and superstitious doctrine , he [ the pope ] , spying this , became adversary unto the word of God , falsifying it , extorting it out of the true sense . ’ |
| 19 | 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 ! |
| 20 | The CPSU Central Committee , reviewing these developments in the early 1970s , went so far as to claim that a ‘ new historical collectivity of people — the Soviet people ’ had come into existence in the USSR , based upon the ‘ common ownership of the means of production , unity of economic , socio-political and cultural life , Marxist-Leninist ideology , and the interests and communist ideals of the working class ’ . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | He went so far as to state that had Hougoumont fallen , the battle might well have been lost . |
| 23 | One writer in 1766 even went so far as to propose that canals be required to end short of their planned destinations . |
| 24 | Indeed , they went so far as to propose that there should be a separate planning code for minerals . |
| 25 | Indeed Holt saw it as a mechanism for controlling the curriculum and even went so far as to suggest that the staff of the APU were concerned to promote desirable curriculum development . |
| 26 | Indeed he went so far as to suggest that pupils might be involved in evaluating the curriculum in the future . |
| 27 | The Women 's Industrial Council ( a group of primarily middle class women who devoted themselves to the investigation of working women 's problems ) went so far as to suggest that such a form of provision was inappropriate for women and merely intensified the ‘ regrettable tendency to consider the work of a wife and mother in her home of no money value ’ . |
| 28 | On Jan. 15 Gorbachev went so far as to suggest that the country 's new liberal press law might be suspended in the wake of Soviet media criticism of the leadership 's handling of the Baltic crisis . |
| 29 | One tabloid , threatened since with a writ , went as far as to say that he would not be able to find such a sum . |
| 30 | The figure was well below City estimates and one analyst went as far as to say that the detailed announcement ‘ deserves to set the standards for all ’ . |