Example sentences of "go [adv] far [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Predictably , she was not sympathetic to the boisterous ways of a young teenager , though she did not go so far as a Mrs Dudley who complained to Bloomsbury House that one of her fifteen-year-old lodgers , Willy , had ‘ broken the beading on a wardrobe and had also broken a chair ’ , offences which most parents of healthy teenagers would have accepted as part of growing up . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The party could only go as far as the unions would allow and their influence was apparent at all levels . |
| 4 | The indecent assaults did not go as far as the rapes but were ‘ equally repulsive ’ . |
| 5 | ‘ We 'll go as far as the village , ’ Sharpe said . |
| 6 | That 's right , but it does n't go as far as the Glen , |
| 7 | And you could only go as far as the money would go , could n't you ? |
| 8 | 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 : |
| 9 | John d'Ancona , who has been OSO 's director-general for 12 years , doubts if it will go as far as the creation of a series of OSO clones operating under the DTI umbrella to deal with specific industrial sectors . |