Example sentences of "not [vb infin] as far " in BNC.
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| 1 | The light of the lamp did not reach as far as the high ceiling , and the fire had burned low . |
| 2 | We shall instead suggest ( 40 ) , where the fact that the arrowhead passes through the square bracket is intended to show that the minor property does not simply qualify the entity as a whole , but the fact that it does not reach as far as the round bracket shows that the adjective is not a sense-qualifier : ( 40 ) |
| 3 | I recognise that this may not go as far as librarians would wish . |
| 4 | I would not go as far as one group which makes ‘ coupleness and a sense of call in husband and wife ’ one of their ten non-negotiables for church planters . |
| 5 | The indecent assaults did not go as far as the rapes but were ‘ equally repulsive ’ . |
| 6 | One piece of good news is that Clinton has stated that he will not go as far as a recent legislative proposal , which would have required certain foreign-owned firms and branches to report a minimum amount of US taxable income . |
| 7 | The question of images in churches was further addressed by two sets of injunctions issued by Cromwell in 1536 and 1538 , but even here the reforms did not go as far as some iconophobes would have liked , as they drew back from condemning all images and denounced only those that encouraged ‘ superstition and hypocrisy ’ and ‘ that most detestable sin of idolatry ’ . |
| 8 | In Canada the Human Rights Act 1978 does not go as far as removing mandatory retirement ages ( although there is pressure growing to do so ) but does make it unlawful to deprive people of employment opportunities on grounds of age , as a result of policies or practices relating to recruitment promotion , training , or other personnel matters . |
| 9 | Certainly , it is important to study bureaucracies as institutions in their own right , even if we would not go as far as the poet Alexander Pope who wrote : |
| 10 | They do not go as far as some countries , who plan to make actual cuts in emissions rates . |
| 11 | The majority of the National Executive did not go as far as Marchbanks but warned several of the leading participants in the Petition campaign that disciplinary action would be taken against them ( as against Cripps ) if they continued in their support for it . |
| 12 | ‘ They ’ did not come as far west as Fulham that night , but we did get it before the end of the week . |
| 13 | He did not get as far as the main Cossack encampments at Peggetz and Oberdrauberg near Lienz , a considerable distance further west . |
| 14 | A recent claim by an accident and emergency consultant in Sheffield that children , and even adults , could regrow their finger tips , providing that the injury did not extend as far as the terminal or end joint , was greeted with considerable scepticism by the medical profession . |
| 15 | He does n't exist as far as I 'm concerned . ’ |
| 16 | It would n't exist as far as the programmer was concerned . |
| 17 | You know , very often when you go from one country to another you go through an area of re , what is called no man 's land , you come through from one frontier and then you 've got a distance and you come to the next frontier that does n't exist as far as accepting or rejecting Christ is concerned . |
| 18 | But it does n't matter as far as we 're concerned because one side of Katrina is just as bright as the other side . |
| 19 | The chairs are not so bad cos they do n't lean as far back as settee back |
| 20 | ‘ I would n't go as far as that . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ I would n't go as far as to say that but I 'll admit you were in a rather nasty pickle . ’ |
| 22 | Then he looked up with a solemn expression and replied : ‘ Well , I would n't go as far as that . ’ |
| 23 | That 's it , though he does n't go as far as refusing to let you see his picture . |
| 24 | She did n't go as far as to say a nice warm man to slip into bed with , but that was not far from her mind . |
| 25 | That 's right , but it does n't go as far as the Glen , |
| 26 | ‘ So you could n't go as far as saying who it might have been calling on the Rector at that late hour ? ’ |
| 27 | ‘ The Atlantic does n't go as far as Tennessee , ’ she said . |
| 28 | You do n't go as far as Church Hill ! |
| 29 | Well you do n't go as far as Church Hill then . |
| 30 | No I would n't go as far as that anyway but I 'm saying they 're in the wrong it 's not you in the wrong , they 're in |