Example sentences of "[adv] go as " in BNC.

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1 The party could only go as far as the unions would allow and their influence was apparent at all levels .
2 ‘ We will only go as far as suggesting some of the market leaders like Sage and Pegasus , then we let the customers decide ’ .
3 Teddy refuses to be drawn on his early life and will only go as far back as the Biggin Hill Air Fair of June this year when Anita and Bob Armstrong ‘ adopted ’ him .
4 Some of the migrants may only go as far as southern Europe .
5 And you could only go as far as the money would go , could n't you ?
6 I recognise that this may not go as far as librarians would wish .
7 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 .
8 The indecent assaults did not go as far as the rapes but were ‘ equally repulsive ’ .
9 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 .
10 The reason for this is that the money you receive back at the end of the year will not go as far or buy as much as it did 12 months earlier .
11 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 ’ .
12 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 .
13 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 :
14 It would make us a lot safer and cars may not go as fast .
15 They do not go as far as some countries , who plan to make actual cuts in emissions rates .
16 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 .
17 This was in itself , however , of little significance in an atmosphere impregnated with tension , and anxiety that the western offensive could not conceivably go as smoothly as the Polish and Scandinavian campaigns .
18 She did not even go as far as her room — the sound of the door being unlocked , opening and closing again should surely not carry down to the hall .
19 But I confess I do n't go as often as I might , ’ Omi said .
20 ‘ I would n't go as far as that . ’
21 ‘ I would n't go as far as to say that but I 'll admit you were in a rather nasty pickle . ’
22 What started out as an objective assessment like ‘ That lesson did n't go as well as I had expected ’ gets recast as ‘ I made a mistake ’ which leads to ‘ I 'm a poor teacher ’ and even ‘ I 'm a failure ( as a person ) ’ .
23 Then he looked up with a solemn expression and replied : ‘ Well , I would n't go as far as that . ’
24 That 's it , though he does n't go as far as refusing to let you see his picture .
25 She did n't go as far as to say a nice warm man to slip into bed with , but that was not far from her mind .
26 That 's right , but it does n't go as far as the Glen ,
27 My pride of race did n't go as deep as my fear of disapproval .
28 But we do n't go as often now .
29 Nuttall 's happening did n't go as expected , when he became jammed in the bath in which he had placed himself , and Latham fainted while trying to drag him out .
30 ‘ So you could n't go as far as saying who it might have been calling on the Rector at that late hour ? ’
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