Example sentences of "[modal v] only go so [adv] " in BNC.
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1 | Sanitary legislation could only go so far in monitoring personal health ; what was vital was a popular campaign stressing the individual 's own responsibility to observe the rules of health . |
2 | Likewise it is smarter of the donkey to explain calmly that it can only go so fast , than to keep trying to bite its owner . |
3 | Grammar , as I pointed out in the preceding chapter , can only go so far . |
4 | Well there 's the gate , he can only go so far with the gate anyway , so it wo n't really matter yeah yeah you ought to see all the pegs at the back of me fridge |
5 | We can only go so far as union negotiators . |