Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] not go " in BNC.

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1 Avnet Inc 's proposed acquisition of Hall-Mark Electronics Corp has not gone down to well with Standard & Poor 's Corp , which said it may cut the distributors $100m of A-plus-rated subordinated debt .
2 As a student of these matters , surely the hon. Gentleman recognises that in , for example , the past five years , the peak age for offending for a young male has not gone down but gone up .
3 ‘ How are things at 6 Commando area , Piper ? ’ he enquired , ‘ The attack by the Black Watch has not gone too well judging by the number of wounded passing through here ! ’
4 Under the new captaincy of Ken Mentle , the club decided not to go all out for the title but simply to consolidate their Premier Division status .
5 Many people felt that the Thorneycroft/Mountbatten reorganization did not go far enough , and that Service Departments should have been abolished and a completely functional organization adopted .
6 Ultimately there are more things in life than canoeing ; unfortunately we had allowed things to become part of what should have been a purely personal outing in a boat ; in doing this we had ensured that our attempt did not go ahead .
7 It is important to point out that the department did not go into this exercise " cold " .
8 A similar result was reached by Lord Somervell who was of the opinion that fraud did not go to jurisdiction and could be challenged at any time .
9 But his talent did not go entirely unnoticed .
10 Fortunately , it usually happened that the rejected lover did not go away , and when at last the heroine was free , there he was , waiting still .
11 Conservatives worried about the budget deficit implications of the proposed cut while the many liberals in congress were convinced that the cut did not go far enough .
12 A PDS statement said that Amato 's draft programme did not go far enough towards creating a " government of innovation " and did not give sufficient weight to the elimination of corrupt practices .
13 Although you should be helpful and guide the candidate through the interview do not go too far and start ‘ pointing ’ him or her at the right answers .
14 The interview did not go as the interview with MacQuillan 's mistress had gone and Rain was soon climbing ashore , silently cursing Crystal Daly 's gullibility .
15 I hear that editor David Thomas 's valedictory piece did not go down too well either .
16 Vlasov 's spirited handling of his army in the Moscow counter-offensive did not go unnoticed .
17 Needless to say , this dogma did not go unchallenged .
18 Even then the defendant does not go free — he is confined in a mental hospital until the Home secretary authorises his release .
19 In this case , Lord Denning distinguished Bartlett v Sidney Marcus ( 1965 ) by explaining that if a car does not go for a reasonable time and the engine breaks up , this is evidence to show that the car was not fit for its purpose when sold .
20 Puddephat 's pompous Who 's Who entry had not gone unnoticed among his enemies .
21 The Old Testament does not go in for saints .
22 The Bond organisation , however , succeeded in securing a ‘ deposit ’ of A$1.2billion from Bell Resources for the brewery business , which Mr Spalvins has insisted must be repaid if the Lion Nathan deal does not go through .
23 All percussion has a pervasive sound and even when played quietly the effect of one instrument does not go unnoticed .
24 While capitalist states elsewhere have had to deal with high levels of inflation , balance of payment crises , low productivity and increasing demands put on State expenditure , Britain has had to respond not only to these problems but also to a decline in its manufacturing base : profits from industry have not gone back in sufficient volume to sustain the long-term investment in new technology that Britain has needed .
25 If the work has not gone too far , there is often some blank page , or part of one , where these can be noted ; otherwise they will normally be printed on a special slip or leaf which can be ‘ tipped-in ’ ( lightly attached by glue or paste at the inner edge ) .
26 That theology has not gone unchallenged , of course .
27 Erm , for a variety of reasons Chair , that proposal did not go ahead , erm , and I think probably the major reason in that was erm , the County Council 's erm , inability to , to meet the cost of the project as it started to , to set up .
28 Another problem to consider is that if the people identified for transfer do not go , what happens to their career prospects ?
29 Yet in practice this view was not extended to take in the case of gender : the advances made as a result of the critique of behaviourism and pluralism did not go on to question the assumptions and mechanisms that continue to define politics as the affair of men .
30 Not as strong as all that , however ; for if the internal difficulties were eased because the government 's hand was strengthened by the plebiscite , the problems of making the new Constitution work did not go away .
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