Example sentences of "go far " in BNC.

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1 Easthope believes that the modernist concept of ‘ impersonality ’ , later systematized in the New Criticism , and theorized by Wimsatt and Beardsley in their famous essay ‘ The Intentional Fallacy ’ , was on the right lines , but did not go far enough , as the author was not really banished .
2 But does it go far enough ?
3 The 31-year-old ex-paratrooper 's prize for retaining his title at Wembley on Saturday night was £10,000 , which does not go far for a full-time body builder who downs half a dozen eggs after his breakfast cereal and eight to 10 chicken breasts a day when ‘ bulking up ’ .
4 Many reformers also complained that the new party 's founding document , adopted on Saturday by an 80 per cent majority , did not go far enough .
5 Ghost : Oh , very droll , dear lad — you will go far .
6 MOSCOW ( Reuter ) — A Soviet parliamentary committee rejected the government 's proposed budget and economic plan for 1990 saying it did not go far enough in adapting the Soviet planned economy to competition and market forces .
7 However , believing that the reforms do not go far enough , and backed by the National Council for Civil Liberties ( Liberty ) and The Independent , he is still pursuing the campaign to the European courts .
8 That way you can never go far wrong . ’
9 Beneath the quirks of arrangement on this second album , D'Arby delivers resounding pop songs , some great vocal performances , and an idiosyncratic vision which will help him go far .
10 Some dubbed it a cosmetic exercise which did not go far enough and said too many concessions had already been made to industry .
11 Proposals to curb litter and waste did not go far enough and would land local authorities with extra bills but no additional resources .
12 But the US Environmental Protection Agency has decided that the voluntary withdrawal does not go far enough .
13 WE THREE GREENS We three Greens of Politics are Patten and Porritt and Pearce , we 'll go far Two of us preaching , One of us teaching , how to avoid the car .
14 Many people felt that the Thorneycroft/Mountbatten reorganization did not go far enough , and that Service Departments should have been abolished and a completely functional organization adopted .
15 This would be useful , but it does not go far enough .
16 You 'll go far . ’
17 Some activists were disappointed at the emphasis on legal measures and discouragement of ‘ direct action ’ and felt that legislation did not go far enough in tackling the ‘ Jewish Question ’ .
18 Business Monitor : Surveyor who will go far
19 The Bundesbank has warned that monetary union will fail because Maastricht did not go far enough on political union .
20 ‘ The Commission and West Germany thought this did not go far enough — others thought it went too far , ’ says Haigh .
21 Such an approach would be centred upon the management of and for professionality and it would be based upon a relocation of the whole management process — away from a top-down managerial philosophy and practice , and towards a genuinely collegiate form which would go far beyond the traditional boundaries of delegation .
22 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 .
23 The endowment did n't go far .
24 His policy of moving towards a more liberal regime led to the usual situation which such changes produce , that is , for the reformers he did not go far enough , for the conservatives he went too far .
25 They lived frugally off a diet of porridge and lentils and beans and yogurt ; they drank a little beer , making it spin out ; they shared book-buying ; they were both entirely confined to their grants , which did not go far in London , and could not be supplemented with holiday earnings , for these had vanished with the oil crisis .
26 Steps were taken to reduce capacity : shifts were cut and shod time introduced but these measures did not go far enough to balance supply and demand .
27 She knew that the car could n't go far along the ride , because this ended in dense thickets .
28 ‘ He will go far ’ she said of this brave Australian boy .
29 — My Auntie said he would go far Apparently
30 As I said before , the Handbook of Human Intelligence is excellent as far as it goes , but it certainly does not go far enough ; perhaps the second edition will improve on this sad state of affairs !
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