Example sentences of "not go very " in BNC.

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1 ( 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 .
2 This argument seems to me sound so far as it goes , but it does not go very far .
3 But comparison with the press can not go very far .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 £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 .
7 With your foot in that condition you can not go very far .
8 So provides section 16 of the Partnership Act , 1890 , and the words have a comfortingly assured ring about them even though long and intimate acquaintance with that Act suggests that comfort will be impaired if here as at other points in the Act one indulges in deeper reflection ; and reflection need not go very deep before one becomes uneasy , because if one takes the words of section 16 into unqualified acceptance and seeks to apply them in practical situations , one does not have to envisage a great number of such situations to find some where the uncritical acceptance of section 16 will lead to manifest absurdity .
9 It does n't go very far and you ca n't hit very hard .
10 ‘ Oh , that wo n't go very far , not when Reg and Henry get their fingers into them .
11 ‘ Your feelings do n't go very deep , ’ Ruth said angrily .
12 He would time it just right and throw himself in front of the branch line train , he knew the train did n't go very fast but it would do …
13 Anyway , I do n't go very often .
14 Dean agreed : ‘ I had an opportunity to watch Jimmy a couple of times from short leg in my first season here , and I realised then that he does n't go very far forward .
15 Oh , but this is the Niersteiner , the last bottle , and it would n't go very well with beef ’ He had been saving it for Sophia 's birthday .
16 Er what would you be able to manage on , sort of thing and I said about two hundred and fifty a year and er , you know , that was quite realistic in those days but erm obviously it would n't go very far now , would it ?
17 But that does n't go very far unless you also examine the structural influences which shape personal behaviour .
18 that the , to cope with the expression on that there , that erm we , we must fund , fund this referral unit , erm coming last to capital , erm many of school buildings are in an abysmal and dilapidated position through neglect over many , many years before er , we 've given perhaps , erm , but our meagre a hundred and ninety thousand er I 've , I admit wo n't go very far .
19 We 're both disabled : my wife is almost completely unable to walk , and I ca n't go very far because I 've recently lost half a lung
20 Sometimes he 's alright and sometimes it does n't go very well .
21 But that does n't go very far , does it ?
22 Yeah and a shire horse does n't go very fast .
23 I think they go to two and three but they do n't go very far .
24 Yeah do n't go very well the other way we said , did n't we ?
25 Or do you wan na lose the ground missiles again or they 're actually they do n't go very fast they 've got warheads on them .
26 Erm there are erm it 's , I mean I , we do n't go very often , but over the Christmas holidays
27 Does n't go very far though does it ?
28 Well , cos of my back last year I could n't go very far so we thought , where can we go for a break ?
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