Example sentences of "[not/n't] gone [adv] far as " in BNC.

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1 At present the authorities have not gone so far as this .
2 The courts have not gone so far as to give a cause of action in damages for the breach of such a promise , but they have refused to allow the party making it to act inconsistently with it .
3 However the government has not gone as far as it might have .
4 In some areas , mechanisation is replacing labour although in the countryside this has not gone as far as on North American farms .
5 Nutley ( 1982 ) , analysing these data , suggests that decline may have proceeded mainly by frequency reductions which have not gone as far as complete closures .
6 We had n't gone as far as we would have liked , and it was touch and go until the very last moment , but we just squeezed past the point between Tanakeke island and the mainland .
7 ‘ THE shareholders must be hoping the bank has n't gone as far as to give him a company credit card ’ — Labour leader John Smith , on ex-Chancellor Norman Lamont 's new employer , Rothschilds Bank .
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