Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] go as [adv] [conj] " 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 | ‘ Some people have suggested that people end up going as fast as 70mph , ’ said Mr Rose . |
5 | The indecent assaults did not go as far as the rapes but were ‘ equally repulsive ’ . |
6 | 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 ’ . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | They do not go as far as some countries , who plan to make actual cuts in emissions rates . |
9 | 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 ) ’ . |
10 | I think it still is the way forward and I do n't think it was so much that things went wrong as that they did n't go as well as we had hoped for the women elections to the shadow cabinet . |
11 | My pride of race did n't go as deep as my fear of disapproval . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | Cos you do n't go as slow as this , even round here something like that Ann . |
14 | You do n't go as far as Church Hill ! |
15 | Well you do n't go as far as Church Hill then . |
16 | But I confess I do n't go as often as I might , ’ Omi said . |
17 | But matters had not gone as smoothly as all that . |
18 | 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 . |
19 | 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 . |
20 | That 's it , though he does n't go as far as refusing to let you see his picture . |
21 | That 's right , but it does n't go as far as the Glen , |
22 | ‘ The Atlantic does n't go as far as Tennessee , ’ she said . |
23 | 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 . |
24 | In all my years on newspapers , I 've never gone as far as breaking and entering . |
25 | She lowered her lashes , said bitterly , ‘ I — I 've never gone as far as I did last night with you ! ’ |
26 | Some providers have already gone as far as to produce prospectuses outlining their services . |
27 | Nutley ( 1982 ) , analysing these data , suggests that decline may have proceeded mainly by frequency reductions which have not gone as far as complete closures . |