Example sentences of "go very far " in BNC.
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| 1 | Much of this mobility was accounted for by adolescent farm servants who regularly changed jobs every year ; they moved from farm to farm regardless of parish boundaries but rarely went very far . |
| 2 | ‘ Oh , that wo n't go very far , not when Reg and Henry get their fingers into them . |
| 3 | ( 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 . |
| 4 | This argument seems to me sound so far as it goes , but it does not go very far . |
| 5 | But comparison with the press can not go very far . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | £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 . |
| 10 | With your foot in that condition you can not go very far . |
| 11 | But that does n't go very far unless you also examine the structural influences which shape personal behaviour . |
| 12 | 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 |
| 13 | But I knew Elsie would start at the top and not go very far down . |
| 14 | Deed not go very far |
| 15 | What I maintain is that there are certainly moments , like the Rococo , which go very far in general preference for certain forms , such as lightness , grace and playfulness . |
| 16 | Well as John said wet and windy everywhere unless you go very far north but those people up at Ayr it 's gon na be cold so you ca n't have everything . |
| 17 | We had n't gone very far when we met up with another Lancaster returning from a Cook 's Tour , and to my horror the two aircraft then flew wing-tip to wing-tip all the way home . |
| 18 | Without their support we could not have gone very far . |
| 19 | It was not possible for the NFER project team to study in any detail the role of investigative work in a graduated test scheme , partly because few schools associated with the project had gone very far towards introducing it into their curricula . |
| 20 | But the influence of one mind over another is very subtle , and of all influences religious influence is the most dangerous and the most powerful , and to counteract it courts of equity have gone very far . |
| 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 | Someone suggested I might have some Chanel No 5 as an alternative , but I did n't , and if I had , it would n't have gone very far . |
| 24 | Before she 'd gone very far , she could see that this was n't like the fogs she knew . |
| 25 | Picking up her tray without the fruit and cake she had planned to take , Belinda left the cafeteria line with tight lips and stiffened shoulders , but , before she had gone very far , Deana had caught up to her , grabbing her upper arm roughly and painfully so that her hot dinner spilled on to the tray and splashed her wrist . |
| 26 | She asked tentatively now , ‘ Has she gone very far ? ’ |
| 27 | Moulin 's behind-the-scenes work would probably not have gone very far , however , without a public appeal from de Gaulle to the leaders of the Resistance . |
| 28 | In Spain , in the later 1780s , the foreign minister , Count Floridablanca , began attaching youths in their late teens to missions abroad to be given there some grounding in diplomatic skills : this again does not appear to have gone very far . |
| 29 | It was talking of a ‘ gulf ’ between the two bodies , seeing the partnership discussions as revealing that the CNAA was not prepared to go very far towards new relationships , and criticizing validation visits in particular : they were ‘ more often than not ’ unsatisfactory in meeting the assumed objectives . |