Example sentences of "have not [verb] far " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has long been clear that IBM Corp 's latest restructuring into 13 somewhat autonomous business units has taken too long and has not gone far enough , and the company has called an extraordinary board meeting for this Tuesday to decide what cuts need to be made to meet 1993 targets . |
| 2 | In eight years of operation , the VSOE charter train has not strayed far from its original concept . |
| 3 | And although attendance during the rainy season was poor , the company 's projection of 11m visitors for the first year has not proved far from the mark . |
| 4 | So far this argument has not departed far from the ‘ radical social control ’ position outlined above . |
| 5 | The laughter had been absent for a while , but it had not withdrawn far from him , the marks of its permanent habitation were still there . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I had not gone far before the rain started and it soon became a sluicing downpour that never abated all day . |
| 8 | In many cases , however , the new Boards felt that their predecessors had not gone far enough . |
| 9 | The more he thought about it , the more he felt that the contract he had renegotiated with Virgin had not gone far enough . |
| 10 | Mr Davies told the Commons that Norman Lamont 's Budget though courageous , had not gone far enough . |
| 11 | ‘ His criticism of my sermon was that I had not gone far enough , ’ continued Father Kipling . |
| 12 | They had not gone far when again the clerk heard that long , moaning howl . |
| 13 | They had not gone far , when they had stepped into a small clearing . |
| 14 | They left the house by the same route by which they had entered , though had not gone far when her escort stopped to exchange a few words with an odd-job man who was undertaking a minor repair near some outbuildings . |
| 15 | He was an intelligent man but he had not travelled far , and we spent hours sitting on the verandah talking about our different cultures — he was fascinated by the idea of social security , the nuclear family , double-decker buses and cricket — while above us dark silhouettes of geckoes scurried across the strip lights . |
| 16 | A short time later they were making their way along the road that led beyond the property , and had not travelled far before Silas turned the minibus along a side-road that led towards the boundary . |
| 17 | They had not spread far — it was not their way — from the hive . |
| 18 | But according to several experts , we have not gone far enough . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | In answer to an earlier question the Under-Secretary of State mentioned the vast resources given to the city of Liverpool , and by definition to other inner city authorities , which have not used housing resources sensibly and have not proceeded far with the right to buy . |