Example sentences of "have not [verb] far " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has long been clear that IBM Corp 's latest restructuring into 13 somewhat autonomous business units has taken too long and has not gone far enough , and the company has called an extraordinary board meeting for this Tuesday to decide what cuts need to be made to meet 1993 targets . |
| 2 | In eight years of operation , the VSOE charter train has not strayed far from its original concept . |
| 3 | And although attendance during the rainy season was poor , the company 's projection of 11m visitors for the first year has not proved far from the mark . |
| 4 | So far this argument has not departed far from the ‘ radical social control ’ position outlined above . |
| 5 | she has n't moved far then has she ? |
| 6 | She has n't moved far , has she ? |
| 7 | With opinion polls showing support for the party at its lowest mid-term level for decades , the common belief is not that the Government is out-of-touch or seen as tired and uncaring , but that it has n't gone far enough . |
| 8 | ‘ He 's getting on and he has n't got far . |
| 9 | He has n't come far . |
| 10 | According to Nintendo , ‘ the market has n't advanced far enough ’ . |
| 11 | The laughter had been absent for a while , but it had not withdrawn far from him , the marks of its permanent habitation were still there . |
| 12 | They had not gone far before the leading vehicle halted at a metal pole stretched across the road , and the rest of the convoy bunched up behind . |
| 13 | I had not gone far before the rain started and it soon became a sluicing downpour that never abated all day . |
| 14 | In many cases , however , the new Boards felt that their predecessors had not gone far enough . |
| 15 | The more he thought about it , the more he felt that the contract he had renegotiated with Virgin had not gone far enough . |
| 16 | Mr Davies told the Commons that Norman Lamont 's Budget though courageous , had not gone far enough . |
| 17 | ‘ His criticism of my sermon was that I had not gone far enough , ’ continued Father Kipling . |
| 18 | They had not gone far when again the clerk heard that long , moaning howl . |
| 19 | They had not gone far , when they had stepped into a small clearing . |
| 20 | They left the house by the same route by which they had entered , though had not gone far when her escort stopped to exchange a few words with an odd-job man who was undertaking a minor repair near some outbuildings . |
| 21 | He was an intelligent man but he had not travelled far , and we spent hours sitting on the verandah talking about our different cultures — he was fascinated by the idea of social security , the nuclear family , double-decker buses and cricket — while above us dark silhouettes of geckoes scurried across the strip lights . |
| 22 | A short time later they were making their way along the road that led beyond the property , and had not travelled far before Silas turned the minibus along a side-road that led towards the boundary . |
| 23 | They had not spread far — it was not their way — from the hive . |
| 24 | ‘ They had n't gone far — where did you find them ? ’ |
| 25 | That ‘ rose-red ’ cliché rang true but Burton had n't gone far enough in hyperbole . |
| 26 | She had n't gone far , when she heard a crash ! |
| 27 | She had n't gone far , when she heard a clatter ! |
| 28 | She had n't gone far , when she heard a thud ! |
| 29 | We had n't gone far before we spied the punt entangled in the branches of a willow which had collapsed into the stream . |
| 30 | Sarah was worried because it was getting late , and when at last she was out of the hospital she started walking quickly towards Clerkenwell , but she had n't gone far before a hackney cab drew up . |