Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] go far " in BNC.
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| 1 | Competing groups — for example , companies in the same line of business or different universities — engaged in intense and bitter rivalry in which manifestations of loyalty and dedication to the group sometimes went far beyond the bounds of what was normally acceptable . |
| 2 | Bramah quotes Grant Richards as having enquired in the Times Literary Supplement , ‘ Is there really such a person as Ernest Bramah ? ’ and ( Dame ) E. Rose Macaulay [ q.v. ] as having written in the Nation and Athenaeum , ‘ The crude stilted Conan Doylish English of the detective stories certainly goes far to bear out the common theory that Ernest Bramah has a literary dual personality . ’ |
| 3 | The termites seldom go far . |
| 4 | Sympathy was with the generals rather than the Prime Minister , hardly surprisingly in view of past events , but sympathy never went far enough to weaken Lloyd George 's position greatly . |
| 5 | But of course the minister in his speech earlier went far wider than that er he seemed to imply that it was n't just er th er duty on the accountant er acting in capa his capacity as an auditor but er the the accountant would have the same duty if acting as an accountant , tax advisor or indeed in any other capacity . |