Example sentences of "not go [adv] far " in BNC.
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| 1 | ... Alex loved a verbal fight … but he was generally canny enough not to go too far . |
| 2 | Sir James and the prison cell were simply a warning not to go too far , not to presume too much on our present weakness . ’ |
| 3 | The wise use of police discretion and the genuine effort not to go too far in their protest on the part of the pickets and demonstrators is the formula for resolution of this aspect of conflict . |
| 4 | Take care not to go too far ! |
| 5 | But the only other guidance necessary is to say : be as funny as it is in you to be but be careful not to go too far . |
| 6 | Jokes with the younger farm-hands who were wise enough not to go too far with the granddaughter of the boss . |
| 7 | No he 's not saying that , he 's not going that far because he 's not talking about all religions . |
| 8 | If you 're not going as far you 're going slower and then you take that up a level all right |
| 9 | There was a twist to his mouth which , though not going so far as to be a smile , showed some amusement . |
| 10 | But I knew Elsie would start at the top and not go very far down . |
| 11 | Deed not go very far |
| 12 | Unfortunately , this weighty tome does not go nearly far enough into this fascinating world of the interrelationships that ants have with the plants and other animals in their day-to-day business of running the world : Rather , we have a specialised symposium that concentrates on the largely negative aspects of viewing some of the world 's most fascinating species only as anthropogenic pests . |
| 13 | All these three new developments are in the direction which this book advocates , but they do not go nearly far enough . |
| 14 | I recognise that this may not go as far as librarians would wish . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The indecent assaults did not go as far as the rapes but were ‘ equally repulsive ’ . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 ’ . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 : |
| 21 | They do not go as far as some countries , who plan to make actual cuts in emissions rates . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | But do not go too far . |
| 24 | Omelettes ( you can not go too far wrong with an omelette , unless it is made with cheese , so no cheese , please ) |
| 25 | This early in the summer most of the hurricane tracks lay well to the south of the Bahamas , but the islands could still be racked by ship-killing tropical storms and , till I was sure of Wavebreaker 's rigging , I would not go too far from safe harbours . |
| 26 | At the same time , one can not go too far with this . |
| 27 | In Britain at least , and to a greater or lesser extent in other financial centres also , this deregulatory trend has been accompanied by a wave of new regulatory developments to ensure that deregulation does not go too far . |
| 28 | Modulations towards keys on the sharp side of the ‘ circle of fifths ’ are good , providing they do not go too far . |
| 29 | On the one hand towards a more realist approach which is essential but can not go too far because if pursued at other than a meso-scale level is in danger of leading towards natural and biological sciences . |
| 30 | She would make sure she did not go too far , or too soon . |