Example sentences of "far [subord] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Protagoras found gender assignation in Greek inconsistent and illogical — for example , there were cases when two words referring to the same thing had different genders — and he went so far as to advocate reform ( he was ridiculed for this by Aristophanes , and the attempt was unsuccessful ) . |
| 3 | Ellen forgot herself so far as to sit down plump on the bed . |
| 4 | the right of privacy did not extend so far as to confer a protected right on consenting adults to pursue their own choice in the matter of watching obscene and pornographic motion pictures within a theatre … [ even one ] not open to minors and which gave patrons due notice of the kind of entertainment provided . |
| 5 | In the summer of 1101 , faced with Robert 's landing in England and the immediate prospect of widespread desertion , Henry went so far as to promise a general obedience to the papal decrees , and it seems likely that Anselm 's activity on his behalf , secured by this promise , turned the tide in his favour , and brought Duke Robert 's invasion to a halt . |
| 6 | One former American Secretary of State has gone so far as to characterise the Armed Forces as an institution ‘ operating entirely outside Party control ’ . |
| 7 | In their efforts to impress the United States , the Romanians went so far as to compare their position vis-à-vis the Kremlin with Cuba 's in relation to Washington . |
| 8 | Morrow ( 1980:Part 4 ) takes the subordination of text to purpose and prediction so far as to use the questions to construct the text ( through a series of student activities like speed-reading of parts of the text , reordering , and blank-filling ) while the text itself is hidden away at the back of the book for consumption afterwards . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I 've heard it repeated on the radio recently and even the Secretary of State did n't go so far as to use the ninety percent figure but was talking about the seriously mentally ill and the not so seriously mentally ill . |
| 11 | Could death education ever go this far as to teach the bereaved how to dig a grave and incidentally earn a discount ? |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | No , I must say that things have now gone so far as to justify me in feeling considerable uneasiness about his continued absence . ’ |
| 14 | Cusick even goes so far as to venture an empathy between the teams Verity Lambert assembled to work on the series . |
| 15 | As Carol Dyhouse has pointed out , in concentrating their attention on mothercraft , medical experts tended to devalue women 's knowledge regarding infant care , one doctor going so far as to label grandmothers as ‘ infanticide experts ’ . |
| 16 | Danby later insisted that he had never intended things to go " so far as to settle the Crown on the Prince of Orange " . |
| 17 | Indeed , so fundamental to the outlook of Jacobean Protestants was this identification of the pope with Antichrist that one contemporary went so far as to define a Protestant as one who ‘ can swear the Pope is antichrist and that flesh is good on Friday ’ . |
| 18 | She would not have gone so far as to define it as softness . |
| 19 | Who else in that distinguished gathering of philosophers , psychologists , veterinary professors and ethologists would desert their dignity so far as to imitate an animal ? |
| 20 | In the second half of the nineteenth century such sentiments had fostered the growth of a small but vigorous school of Siberian regionalist writers and political activists ( oblastniki ) , some of whom had even gone so far as to envisage the complete political separation of Siberia from Russia and the establishment of a new , independent Siberian republic . |
| 21 | Where the husband goes so far as to cause injury , there are available a number of offences against the person with which he may be charged , but the gravamen of the husband 's conduct is the injury he has caused not the sexual intercourse he has forced . ’ |
| 22 | Through the winter months , the larger firms gave further assurances that they were willing " to take immediate steps for the gradual reduction of female comps " ; some it seems went even so far as to dismiss women . |
| 23 | The system was standardised in the early part of the sixteenth century , and some authorities went so far as to describe the cadency symbols for the ninth son of a ninth son ( an octofoil on an octofoil ) . |
| 24 | José Harris has gone as far as to describe the dispute as ‘ a major conflict of principle ’ between the two boards . |
| 25 | One went so far as to describe her life as ‘ tragic ’ . |
| 26 | X/Open chief technical officer , Mike Lambert , went so far as to describe XPG4 as ‘ a new direction for open systems . ’ |
| 27 | Kip Bertram went so far as to describe the letter as ‘ venomous ’ , and Norman Smith , managing director of Total Book Distribution , said it was ‘ insulting and naive ’ . |
| 28 | Indeed one commentator has gone so far as to describe the DTI 's performance in these cases coupled with its sloppiness in the Barlow Clowes affair and failure to press prosecution over the House of Fraser takeover as ‘ part of a lengthy and dishonourable supine tradition ’ ( Alex Brummer , Guardian , 28.8.90 ) . |
| 29 | His opinions , he knows , are not shared by fellow portrait painters — he goes so far as to describe ‘ the rest ’ as producing ‘ old hat , boring , herd-of-sheep painting ’ , too preoccupied with imbuing a portrait with the sitter 's character . |
| 30 | Glass goes so far as to describe her as ‘ a monster ’ though it is clear she had his complete respect . |