Example sentences of "have [not/n't] gone as [adv] 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 | But matters had not gone as smoothly as all that . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | Nutley ( 1982 ) , analysing these data , suggests that decline may have proceeded mainly by frequency reductions which have not gone as far as complete closures . |