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

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1 However the government has not gone as far as it might have .
2 In some areas , mechanisation is replacing labour although in the countryside this has not gone as far as on North American farms .
3 ‘ THE shareholders must be hoping the bank has n't gone as far as to give him a company credit card ’ — Labour leader John Smith , on ex-Chancellor Norman Lamont 's new employer , Rothschilds Bank .
4 We had n't gone as far as we would have liked , and it was touch and go until the very last moment , but we just squeezed past the point between Tanakeke island and the mainland .
5 Potrovsky had waxed and polished the car the night before and had even gone as far as to iron the two pennants which flew on either side of the bonnet .
6 In all my years on newspapers , I 've never gone as far as breaking and entering .
7 She lowered her lashes , said bitterly , ‘ I — I 've never gone as far as I did last night with you ! ’
8 Some providers have already gone as far as to produce prospectuses outlining their services .
9 Nutley ( 1982 ) , analysing these data , suggests that decline may have proceeded mainly by frequency reductions which have not gone as far as complete closures .
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