Example sentences of "to go so far as [to-vb] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ I would n't like to go so far as to predict anything for Sunday but you can be certain I am far more confident about the race now than I was .
2 But one does not have to go so far as to support child benefit for the qualitative demographic effect it may or may not have .
3 Many congratulations and a warm welcome should be given to Dorling Kindersley , the first general publisher to recognise that there is ELT potential in its list and to go so far as to publish an ELT catalogue .
4 However , contributors to the Review were largely unwilling to go so far as to attempt to specify the nature of artistic quality in general , despite the fact that their own capacity to decide which texts were of sufficient interest in themselves to justify study depended upon recognizing such quality .
5 ‘ I am not myself convinced that the Government will be so foolish as to go so far as to privatise water .
6 He was even prepared to go so far as to admit that monotony was the most comfortable way .
7 You might , for instance have to alter the way the murder you had in mind is committed or you might have to go so far as to alter the motive of the murderer or even find a completely different person to commit the central action .
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