Example sentences of "not go far " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stanley , who was reading a paper , said to Mary Ann : ‘ Tell our Emily she 's not to go far . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I thought you were told not to go far , young lady . |
| 3 | But it is entitled to complain that it has to defend itself against attacks from an equally uneasy fusion of Daily Telegraph Toryism and free-market radicalism — so that it gets criticised both for going downmarket , and for not going far enough downmarket . |
| 4 | He was not going far , by no means as far as Longner , but far enough to be absent when the immediate danger threatened . |
| 5 | ‘ Perhaps they 're not going far , ’ said Antony , peering through the curtains . |
| 6 | The reductions have been criticized by environmentalists as not going far enough . |
| 7 | erm it might well look like that for that very small piece of graph , but the overall picture you 've lost completely by not going far enough so you , you want minus infinity to plus infinity . |
| 8 | The Bundesbank can be — and has been — criticised for not going far enough to stimulate the German economy . |
| 9 | Easthope believes that the modernist concept of ‘ impersonality ’ , later systematized in the New Criticism , and theorized by Wimsatt and Beardsley in their famous essay ‘ The Intentional Fallacy ’ , was on the right lines , but did not go far enough , as the author was not really banished . |
| 10 | The 31-year-old ex-paratrooper 's prize for retaining his title at Wembley on Saturday night was £10,000 , which does not go far for a full-time body builder who downs half a dozen eggs after his breakfast cereal and eight to 10 chicken breasts a day when ‘ bulking up ’ . |
| 11 | Many reformers also complained that the new party 's founding document , adopted on Saturday by an 80 per cent majority , did not go far enough . |
| 12 | MOSCOW ( Reuter ) — A Soviet parliamentary committee rejected the government 's proposed budget and economic plan for 1990 saying it did not go far enough in adapting the Soviet planned economy to competition and market forces . |
| 13 | However , believing that the reforms do not go far enough , and backed by the National Council for Civil Liberties ( Liberty ) and The Independent , he is still pursuing the campaign to the European courts . |
| 14 | Some dubbed it a cosmetic exercise which did not go far enough and said too many concessions had already been made to industry . |
| 15 | Proposals to curb litter and waste did not go far enough and would land local authorities with extra bills but no additional resources . |
| 16 | But the US Environmental Protection Agency has decided that the voluntary withdrawal does not go far enough . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | This would be useful , but it does not go far enough . |
| 19 | Some activists were disappointed at the emphasis on legal measures and discouragement of ‘ direct action ’ and felt that legislation did not go far enough in tackling the ‘ Jewish Question ’ . |
| 20 | The Bundesbank has warned that monetary union will fail because Maastricht did not go far enough on political union . |
| 21 | ‘ The Commission and West Germany thought this did not go far enough — others thought it went too far , ’ says Haigh . |
| 22 | They were soon repudiated by ten of the Member States , including Britain , but for different reasons , some tactical , some in principle and some ( especially German ) because the Dutch proposals did not go far enough . |
| 23 | His policy of moving towards a more liberal regime led to the usual situation which such changes produce , that is , for the reformers he did not go far enough , for the conservatives he went too far . |
| 24 | They lived frugally off a diet of porridge and lentils and beans and yogurt ; they drank a little beer , making it spin out ; they shared book-buying ; they were both entirely confined to their grants , which did not go far in London , and could not be supplemented with holiday earnings , for these had vanished with the oil crisis . |
| 25 | Steps were taken to reduce capacity : shifts were cut and shod time introduced but these measures did not go far enough to balance supply and demand . |
| 26 | As I said before , the Handbook of Human Intelligence is excellent as far as it goes , but it certainly does not go far enough ; perhaps the second edition will improve on this sad state of affairs ! |
| 27 | In any case Kent County Council is concerned that they do not go far enough and has produced its own traffic strategy designed to reduce the pressure on smaller roads . |
| 28 | A rise in numbers would by itself help to explain why the upper classes were looking for new and wider choice of occupation ; it does not go far towards explaining the popularity of Cîteaux . |
| 29 | She was slightly agoraphobic and did not go far from home on her own . |
| 30 | Provided one remembered that a poll was simply a snapshot of voting intention at the time it was taken and that national polls should have a sample of at least 1,000 , one would not go far wrong . |