Example sentences of "can not [verb] [adv] far " in BNC.
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| 1 | A concept of knowing well which rejects stereotyping can not move very far from the experience which generates the knowledge . |
| 2 | ‘ I am to be questioned and interfered with and hounded , not to be left , doing a job of work the way I choose , a necessary job , a job our sister has made tediously inevitable , a job the result of which may save us from potential disgrace , even if we can not go so far as to expect it to improve our situation out of all recognition . |
| 3 | We can not go so far as that ; and I lay it down as fact that there never has been a real complete sceptic . |
| 4 | ( 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 . |
| 5 | But comparison with the press can not go very far . |
| 6 | With your foot in that condition you can not go very far . |
| 7 | Omelettes ( you can not go too far wrong with an omelette , unless it is made with cheese , so no cheese , please ) |
| 8 | At the same time , one can not go too far with this . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It is often a good idea to have several small aquaria instead of one larger one , as it is easier to see the animals and to study them when they are in a small volume of water : they can not swim so far or so fast . |
| 11 | It was a deep grey blue leading into the lands of sunless winter ; the weak golden fingers to the south can not stretch that far . |
| 12 | However , they can not depart too far from it ; men can be swayed by beliefs , but not too far . |
| 13 | The National Security Council , they insist , hums with meetings on just this , but the meetings can not get very far until more is known about how the post-war world looks . |
| 14 | More recent imaging results from the SIGMA telescope aboard the GRANAT satellite show , however , that the variable component of the 511keV line emission originates from a source that lies 0.75° ( 105pc ) from Sgr A. The dynamical centre of the Galaxy can not lie so far from Sgr A , so the γ -ray line source can not mark the nucleus . |
| 15 | ‘ But one can not see greatly far down . |