Example sentences of "[verb] [not/n't] go 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 | Maybe , just maybe , one of the reasons why Sun Microsystems Inc 's SuperSparc Viking chip has n't gone as smooth as silk is because Sun 's lead engineers did n't listen to the young pups and do all the simulation runs they should have to begin with . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 11 | My pride of race did n't go as deep as my fear of disapproval . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | But I confess I do n't go as often as I might , ’ Omi said . |
| 15 | But we do n't go as often now . |
| 16 | Cos you do n't go as slow as this , even round here something like that Ann . |
| 17 | You do n't go as far as Church Hill ! |
| 18 | Well you do n't go as far as Church Hill then . |
| 19 | But matters had not gone as smoothly as all that . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | That 's it , though he does n't go as far as refusing to let you see his picture . |
| 23 | That 's right , but it does n't go as far as the Glen , |
| 24 | ‘ The Atlantic does n't go as far as Tennessee , ’ she said . |
| 25 | In other cases , however , inadequacy merely means that we have not go as much as we would have liked . |
| 26 | Nutley ( 1982 ) , analysing these data , suggests that decline may have proceeded mainly by frequency reductions which have not gone as far as complete closures . |