Example sentences of "not go [adv] far " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unfortunately , this weighty tome does not go nearly far enough into this fascinating world of the interrelationships that ants have with the plants and other animals in their day-to-day business of running the world : Rather , we have a specialised symposium that concentrates on the largely negative aspects of viewing some of the world 's most fascinating species only as anthropogenic pests . |
| 2 | All these three new developments are in the direction which this book advocates , but they do not go nearly far enough . |
| 3 | I recognise that this may not go as far as librarians would wish . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The indecent assaults did not go as far as the rapes but were ‘ equally repulsive ’ . |
| 6 | One piece of good news is that Clinton has stated that he will not go as far as a recent legislative proposal , which would have required certain foreign-owned firms and branches to report a minimum amount of US taxable income . |
| 7 | The question of images in churches was further addressed by two sets of injunctions issued by Cromwell in 1536 and 1538 , but even here the reforms did not go as far as some iconophobes would have liked , as they drew back from condemning all images and denounced only those that encouraged ‘ superstition and hypocrisy ’ and ‘ that most detestable sin of idolatry ’ . |
| 8 | In Canada the Human Rights Act 1978 does not go as far as removing mandatory retirement ages ( although there is pressure growing to do so ) but does make it unlawful to deprive people of employment opportunities on grounds of age , as a result of policies or practices relating to recruitment promotion , training , or other personnel matters . |
| 9 | 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 : |
| 10 | They do not go as far as some countries , who plan to make actual cuts in emissions rates . |
| 11 | The majority of the National Executive did not go as far as Marchbanks but warned several of the leading participants in the Petition campaign that disciplinary action would be taken against them ( as against Cripps ) if they continued in their support for it . |
| 12 | But do not go too far . |
| 13 | Omelettes ( you can not go too far wrong with an omelette , unless it is made with cheese , so no cheese , please ) |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | At the same time , one can not go too far with this . |
| 16 | In Britain at least , and to a greater or lesser extent in other financial centres also , this deregulatory trend has been accompanied by a wave of new regulatory developments to ensure that deregulation does not go too far . |
| 17 | Modulations towards keys on the sharp side of the ‘ circle of fifths ’ are good , providing they do not go too far . |
| 18 | On the one hand towards a more realist approach which is essential but can not go too far because if pursued at other than a meso-scale level is in danger of leading towards natural and biological sciences . |
| 19 | She would make sure she did not go too far , or too soon . |
| 20 | ‘ We must not go too far , ’ said Holmes . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Stone does not go this far , although he can not resist quoting an Irish opponent of divorce during the referendum campaign of 1986 to the effect that ‘ a woman voting for divorce is like a turkey voting for Christmas ’ ( p. 420 ) . |
| 23 | Most snakes do not go this far . |
| 24 | While other respondents do not go this far , some are concerned about Cadbury 's application to small listed companies . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | I do not have to go that far and I do not go that far . ’ |
| 27 | I do not have to go that far and I do not go that far … |
| 28 | He thought she might be on the point of offering him a nip of whisky but she did not go that far . |
| 29 | My Lords for reasons that have already been explained to Your Lordships and which I will not pursue yet for , er it seems that everybody 's agreed that it is important that the erm local authority representatives should be in the majority and I have to admit that my amendments do not go that far because I was concentrating on getting the magistrates back where they ought to be , er but er that is one thing , the other is that it er was an interesting point that er the Noble Lord , Lord of Greenwich raised , that my Noble Friend Lord Whitelaw er at columns four eighty and four eight one er questioned whether it was indeed appropriate that er the Home Secretary should make these appointments . |
| 30 | ( 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 . |