Example sentences of "[modal v] not [verb] [adv] far " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We must not go too far , ’ said Holmes . |
| 2 | But the designer must not go too far in the other direction by filling the schedule with deeply sensitive and thought-provoking questions so that the respondent is exhausted after a short period . |
| 3 | It is important that constituents should be able to consult us about confidential matters , but surely we should not go so far as to give comfort to murderers and bombers , as has been suggested . |
| 4 | We should not go so far as to hold a referendum , but the people must have the final say . |
| 5 | I have no doubt myself that in the expansion of land to the west , er D thirty nine , and possibly D forty would , and I think that his comment that development should not extend so far north is relevant . |
| 6 | A punch should not extend so far as to throw the puncher off balance , nor should a block be carried more than six inches above the head . |
| 7 | Yet Ministers only received £5000 and Permanent Secretaries in the civil service £3500 , and the Treasury were naturally concerned that public sector industries should not get too far out of line . |
| 8 | An example of this has already appeared in Holland , where the Minister of Justice refused to approve policy allowing lesbians and gays to adopt children , arguing that Holland should not deviate so far from general European policy . |
| 9 | I know I do n't need to tell you , but for the record , I will have to clear all this in Oxford and so we should n't get too far down the line . |
| 10 | Schrager and Short may not go this far , but they are certainly right to stress that corporate crime should be conceptualized so as to include acts of omission as well as the more obvious acts of commission . |
| 11 | I recognise that this may not go as far as librarians would wish . |
| 12 | The wood may not stretch very far one way or the other . |
| 13 | ‘ Let's not jump too far ahead , ’ she said in a voice that was not quite steady . |
| 14 | Because of his Cartesianism , Malebranche could not go so far as to say that material objects were not really extended or in motion , but Pierre Bayle had argued that such restraint was unjustifiable . |
| 15 | Even Amabel could not go so far as to trouble Gemma . |
| 16 | We then asked him , if he could not go so far as to meet us in full , to introduce an empowering provision . |
| 17 | They could not tell how far away the ridge might be . |
| 18 | Lucien could not see very far in front of himself because of the tablecloth over his face and was unaware of the bewildered and amused glances he received from passing house staff . |
| 19 | Though I could n't go so far as to say that service was included as all the waiters seemed interested in was getting the lights off so they could dance with Sorrel . |
| 20 | ‘ So you could n't go as far as saying who it might have been calling on the Rector at that late hour ? ’ |
| 21 | He knows that we want to hear about his experience of Neighbours — ‘ They asked me to do Neighbours The Cyber Series , but I could n't go that far … feeling what it 's like to be in Jim Robinson 's shirt , what a waste of technology ’ — that we want tales of drugs and tripping , and an outsider 's observations on British cultural mistakes ( the shell suit ) . |
| 22 | The latter do not necessarily imply that the infinitive event actually occurs : ( 173 ) Miriam now ordered Pengally to break down the gate , but he said he really could n't go that far . |
| 23 | The sense expressed would therefore be diagrammable as : This is not the case with have , which always carries the implication that this event is actualized : ( 174 ) * Miriam now had Pengally break down the gate , but he said he really could n't go that far . |
| 24 | This does not distinguish have from get , however , as the latter also implies effectual causation : ( 175 ) * Miriam now got Pengally to break down the gate , but he said he really could n't go that far , |
| 25 | Erm we are saying that we certainly could n't go that far , maybe two hundred thousand but we would want to put it back so you will have an equal there in terms of spending . |
| 26 | She could n't reach very far , but for as far as she could , the window was clean , bright . |
| 27 | could n't climb very far . |
| 28 | So on the one hand we wanted to be a bit harder edged in our music , but also we could n't get too far away from Bon Jovi as it was , because people obviously bought our records because of the character of them — the songwriting and the playing . |
| 29 | And er really er they themselves thought exactly the same like , but they were talking about other people telling them you know that they could n't get this far but they did . |
| 30 | ‘ We dare n't go so far . |