Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] do not go [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Old Testament does not go in for saints . |
| 2 | I hear that editor David Thomas 's valedictory piece did not go down too well either . |
| 3 | Fortunately , it usually happened that the rejected lover did not go away , and when at last the heroine was free , there he was , waiting still . |
| 4 | The personal pain does not go away . ’ |
| 5 | The majority of the National Executive did not go as far as Marchbanks but warned several of the leading participants in the Petition campaign that disciplinary action would be taken against them ( as against Cripps ) if they continued in their support for it . |
| 6 | Of course , employers ' sick pay does not go on indefinitely . |
| 7 | It concluded that : ‘ Existing procedures do not go far enough . |
| 8 | An Italian flair does not go amiss in the Elgar : Accardo 's impetuosity gives a new slant to the score , his intensity in the Andante an immediacy . |
| 9 | This inner part does not go below fiddle G , so that the violins could lend the powerful aid of their G strings to it ( coupled with other instruments of course ) were it not for the fact that their presence is urgently required to help out the top line . |
| 10 | They were soon repudiated by ten of the Member States , including Britain , but for different reasons , some tactical , some in principle and some ( especially German ) because the Dutch proposals did not go far enough . |
| 11 | More than a quarter of the islands ' adults have signed a petition calling for a sheriff 's inquiry into the incident , claiming that the Department of Transport 's private marine accident investigation and Lord Donaldson 's general investigation do not go far enough . |
| 12 | In the more remote localities Bolshevik officials , desperate for transport facilities , ‘ ignored NEP and all its works , and commandeered right and left as if military Communism [ War Communism ] was still pure and undefiled ’ , yet another indication that military methods did not go completely out of fashion with the advent of NEP . |
| 13 | Astute politicians do not go off half cocked : they test the water , collect their facts , identify the support systems , undermine the opposition 's case , find the coalitions , understand the ‘ influencers ’ or the roles that carry weight . |
| 14 | A random sample of new words did not go down well with passersby . |
| 15 | Drinking coffee from bowls was universally thought to be charming , but other eccentricities did not go down so well . |
| 16 | The indecent assaults did not go as far as the rapes but were ‘ equally repulsive ’ . |
| 17 | While other respondents do not go this far , some are concerned about Cadbury 's application to small listed companies . |
| 18 | The exotic land-prepared dishes did not go down well . |
| 19 | But the US Environmental Protection Agency has decided that the voluntary withdrawal does not go far enough . |
| 20 | My first meeting with the senior management did not go well . |
| 21 | Unfortunately , this weighty tome does not go nearly far enough into this fascinating world of the interrelationships that ants have with the plants and other animals in their day-to-day business of running the world : Rather , we have a specialised symposium that concentrates on the largely negative aspects of viewing some of the world 's most fascinating species only as anthropogenic pests . |
| 22 | The royal family does not go in for oratory , so the policy is evident mostly in endless American- and British-made videos on television , boasting of Saudi Arabia 's military and industrial prowess . |