Example sentences of "[modal v] [not/n't] go [adv] far " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We must not go too far , ’ said Holmes . |
| 2 | But the designer must not go too far in the other direction by filling the schedule with deeply sensitive and thought-provoking questions so that the respondent is exhausted after a short period . |
| 3 | It is important that constituents should be able to consult us about confidential matters , but surely we should not go so far as to give comfort to murderers and bombers , as has been suggested . |
| 4 | We should not go so far as to hold a referendum , but the people must have the final say . |
| 5 | Schrager and Short may not go this far , but they are certainly right to stress that corporate crime should be conceptualized so as to include acts of omission as well as the more obvious acts of commission . |
| 6 | I recognise that this may not go as far as librarians would wish . |
| 7 | Because of his Cartesianism , Malebranche could not go so far as to say that material objects were not really extended or in motion , but Pierre Bayle had argued that such restraint was unjustifiable . |
| 8 | Even Amabel could not go so far as to trouble Gemma . |
| 9 | We then asked him , if he could not go so far as to meet us in full , to introduce an empowering provision . |
| 10 | Though I could n't go so far as to say that service was included as all the waiters seemed interested in was getting the lights off so they could dance with Sorrel . |
| 11 | ‘ So you could n't go as far as saying who it might have been calling on the Rector at that late hour ? ’ |
| 12 | He knows that we want to hear about his experience of Neighbours — ‘ They asked me to do Neighbours The Cyber Series , but I could n't go that far … feeling what it 's like to be in Jim Robinson 's shirt , what a waste of technology ’ — that we want tales of drugs and tripping , and an outsider 's observations on British cultural mistakes ( the shell suit ) . |
| 13 | The latter do not necessarily imply that the infinitive event actually occurs : ( 173 ) Miriam now ordered Pengally to break down the gate , but he said he really could n't go that far . |
| 14 | The sense expressed would therefore be diagrammable as : This is not the case with have , which always carries the implication that this event is actualized : ( 174 ) * Miriam now had Pengally break down the gate , but he said he really could n't go that far . |
| 15 | This does not distinguish have from get , however , as the latter also implies effectual causation : ( 175 ) * Miriam now got Pengally to break down the gate , but he said he really could n't go that far , |
| 16 | Erm we are saying that we certainly could n't go that far , maybe two hundred thousand but we would want to put it back so you will have an equal there in terms of spending . |
| 17 | ‘ We dare n't go so far . |
| 18 | Lévi-Strauss has rendered social anthropology an invaluable service in emphasizing the significance of such contrasting motifs ; although we need not go so far as him and turn our subject into an esoteric animal , vegetable or mineral parlour-game in which every card is a joker and can assume whatever meaning the player likes . |
| 19 | But we need not go so far as that ; it will suffice to suppose that firms rise and fall , but that the ‘ representative ’ firm remains always of about the same size , as does the representative tree of a virgin forest . [ … ] |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 : |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Even now , I would not go so far as to say it is a bad staff plan ; after all , it enables a staff of four to cover an unexpected amount of ground . |
| 24 | Dhanraj began by stating unequivocally that she saw film-making as a tool for socio-political challenge ( she would not go so far as to say change ) and that documentary was best suited to this purpose . |
| 25 | I would not go so far , but this is a good place to start finding out about unfamiliar topics . |
| 26 | ‘ I would n't go as far as that . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ I would n't go as far as to say that but I 'll admit you were in a rather nasty pickle . ’ |
| 28 | Then he looked up with a solemn expression and replied : ‘ Well , I would n't go as far as that . ’ |
| 29 | 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 |
| 30 | ‘ I would n't go that far , ’ she said coolly . |