Example sentences of "not [verb] very far " in BNC.
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| 1 | The idealism of this approach is obvious , and it is not pursued very far . |
| 2 | The study of industry by economic historians has progressed apace , but the understanding of industry in its landscape has not advanced very far . |
| 3 | He had not got very far with Pilger 's list . |
| 4 | The Journal has not got very far in finding out where the applications are expected to come from — or how the thing will be marketed . |
| 5 | Lucien could not see very far in front of himself because of the tablecloth over his face and was unaware of the bewildered and amused glances he received from passing house staff . |
| 6 | Roffman and Purdy list a number of new film genres that developed during these years but the vast majority of individual films mentioned did not move very far from what was becoming a stock depiction of the city with its gangsters , ‘ modern ’ women , and venal politicians and lawyers . |
| 7 | A concept of knowing well which rejects stereotyping can not move very far from the experience which generates the knowledge . |
| 8 | I can assure you that the Council will not move very far without consulting representatives of all the interested parties , including the institutes of education ’ . |
| 9 | Generally speaking , people did not move very far . |
| 10 | For the most part , however , the labouring classes did not move very far . |
| 11 | But I knew Elsie would start at the top and not go very far down . |
| 12 | Deed not go very far |
| 13 | ( In this paper I can not go very far into the available wealth of fact and conjecture in the neurophysiology of language , psycholinguistic theories of language acquisition , and comparative studies of man and other primates . |
| 14 | This argument seems to me sound so far as it goes , but it does not go very far . |
| 15 | But comparison with the press can not go very far . |
| 16 | The redating of many major groups in publication prior to 1960 , would be a considerable undertaking , but the time may have to come when this should be considered seriously , though the rather tentative suggestions made in the CBA Student 's Guide ( Webster , 1970 ) do not go very far in meeting this need , so badly felt by those now beginning in this study . |
| 17 | In the meantime the purchase grant of the Museum has been cut by nearly fifty per cent to Pta300 million ( £1.7 million ; £2.9 million ) which does not go very far when acquiring modern works . |
| 18 | £50000 does not go very far in TV , except on one or two small regional stations ; it is quite difficult , as the cigarette companies find , to spend £1 million plus on a brand without using TV at all : if you only have a few hundred pounds to spend there are few press media in which you can consider full pages or even moderately large sizes . |
| 19 | With your foot in that condition you can not go very far . |
| 20 | The idea was to move away from an elitist and centralist view of things , yet it was to be a long time before such changes were implemented in the Government 's media , and it might well be argued that they have not progressed very far to this day . |
| 21 | They had not gone very far when a great brightness showed over the mountains beyond the forest , and suddenly in front of them they saw a beautiful young man , all dressed in gold , with a scarlet lining to his cloak . |
| 22 | He had not gone very far when the mysterious little girl suddenly appeared again , from the dry gully of a mountain stream . |
| 23 | The wood may not stretch very far one way or the other . |
| 24 | Rain guessed what had caused such changes : the realization that her talent did not stretch very far ; the passing of a way of life which had been so thrilling ; impending old age with few friends , little money and no certainty of a roof over her head . |
| 25 | ‘ Ring the hospital — ’ Tina continued , but she was not to get very far . |
| 26 | A proper discussion of a football match can not occur if one of the participants is quite ignorant of the rules of the game ; and the kind of assessment of a restaurant meal that would involve the possible insertion of the establishment into a good food guide ( or perhaps its deletion from it ) will not get very far if one of the diners does not care for the meal because his idea of a gastronomic treat is a cheeseburger and french fries ( though within the order of the burger discriminations are possible ) . |
| 27 | Ideologically they did not get very far . |
| 28 | The National Security Council , they insist , hums with meetings on just this , but the meetings can not get very far until more is known about how the post-war world looks . |
| 29 | To escape , the heat has to travel up through quite large thicknesses of continental crust , and a large proportion does not get very far ; instead , it comes to rest and solidifies a few kilometres below the surface , forming enormous masses of igneous rock which have been forced or intruded into the crust and are known as batholiths ( Greek origin , meaning something like deep stones ) . |
| 30 | The social worker did not get very far , but having decided to leave , met the son-in-law returning , outside the flat . |