Example sentences of "would [adv] [vb infin] far " in BNC.
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| 1 | If Wales was part of a federal United Kingdom , we would obviously have far more control over our own affairs ’ , said Dr Caldwell . |
| 2 | Provided one remembered that a poll was simply a snapshot of voting intention at the time it was taken and that national polls should have a sample of at least 1,000 , one would not go far wrong . |
| 3 | One or two turns would probably suffice and anyway the money would not go far at this year 's prices . |
| 4 | A buyer for the long haul would not skate far past the optimal point and towards bankruptcy costs . |
| 5 | In many places the wood was too thick and Marian thought that horses would not get far in it . |
| 6 | Even so there were times when the money just would not stretch far enough . |
| 7 | While holding no important posts within the party and often dismissed as little more than a colourless clerk of little talent by Mao 's colleagues , he distinguished himself as a devoted and tireless servant both of Mao and his new wife Jiang Qing — qualities that would later prove far more important than any formal title . |
| 8 | But given a better switch and pots , and a beefier bridge pickup , old blue would n't fall far short of the maximum . |
| 9 | Whatever the disciplinary practices across the generations , it is plain to see that without a reasonable amount of co-operation and compliance from the child , parents would n't get far in fulfilling their objectives . |
| 10 | The police would n't get far without help from public-spirited persons like yourself . |
| 11 | But they would n't get far . |
| 12 | " We could try , but we would n't get far . " |
| 13 | He knew he would n't get far , but hoped to find deep water . |
| 14 | Out of the whole mess , Curtis took consolation from two factors — wounded and losing blood , the bastard would n't get far on foot , and into the bargain he had lost his knife — already on its way to Forensic , who would doubtless prove it to have been the murder weapon with which he had butchered his victims . |
| 15 | That would n't get far with Mahmoud , who , strict Muslim that he was , drank only coffee . |
| 16 | But the boy would n't stray far . |
| 17 | They have a beautiful house in Oxfordshire and would n't venture far from it if the work situation was better for members of the acting profession . |
| 18 | In some ways , therefore , France had to find a way of forcing the other five members into line behind his conception of an intergovernmental association of European states that would ultimately expand far beyond the Six , to what de Gaulle described as a Europe extending from the Atlantic to the Urals . |
| 19 | I 'm quite convinced that society could be run without money and every one of us would actually become far better off — not economically , of course , but emotionally and culturally . |
| 20 | Firstly , such figures give only an average , and some men would therefore do far less well . |
| 21 | They shivered at the word cold and soon the skies and seas were busy with the story of the brave little bird who rode the cold with a grinning beak and a devoted seal who would never swim far from her side . |
| 22 | Because a Hoover lead would never stretch far enough ! |