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Example sentences of "they [verb] not [verb] far " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	Mrs Hirst , who is the chairman of a local disabled charity group , believed these steps were important , but she thought they did not go far enough .
2	These measures were welcomed , but many felt they did not go far enough .
3	The number of responses opposed to the proposals on the grounds that they did not go far enough towards independence was very small — only a few academic boards of institutions had expressed that view .
4	They did not get far .
5	In any case Kent County Council is concerned that they do not go far enough and has produced its own traffic strategy designed to reduce the pressure on smaller roads .
6	LUSTY lovers have one complaint about video sex guides — they do not go far enough .
7	The privatisations also help , even if they do not go far enough .
8	But , they do not go far enough .
9	Gagnon and Simon ( and Plummer ) seem to accept the existence of bodily potentialities on which ‘ sexuality ’ draws , and in this they do not seem far removed from Foucault 's version that what ‘ sexuality ’ plays upon are ‘ bodies , organs , somatic localisations , functions , anatamo-physiological systems , sensations , and pleasures ’ , which have no intrinsic unity or ‘ laws ’ of their own . ’
10	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 .
11	They had not gone far when again the clerk heard that long , moaning howl .
12	They had not gone far , when they had stepped into a small clearing .
13	They had not spread far — it was not their way — from the hive .
14	Although therefore most advocates of a confessional approach have taken on board quite a lot of the criticism against old-style RE understood as indoctrinating , narrow , academic and meaningless to the vast majority of pupils , they have not gone far enough in meeting certain objections .