Example sentences of "[adv] go [adv] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.

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31 I was actually quite low on the activists and higher on these three but I managed to wonder sometimes where I worked ever so hard on a session I ca n't really ca n't understand you know why it 's not going very well and I thought well when I then watched other people do something that had a lot of action I thought well why did they like that more and I never I did n't know but I 've actually learnt that you have to put activities in , cos you , you know you do get people with a very strong activist preference .
32 There was a twist to his mouth which , though not going so far as to be a smile , showed some amusement .
33 We put enough rehearsal in to know we were going to be okay ; it was n't people just going up there and jamming . ’
34 ‘ I was just going out then and I was not coming home until nearly 7am . ’
35 I for one was heartened to see us just going out there and enjoying ourselves , despite going down by eight goals to one .
36 Well not necessarily that , I mean , people buy when they go , I mean , I 've always just gone straight away and got a nice bit bottle of booze and er
37 They 've just gone off somewhere and left it behind .
38 He 'd just gone down there because er .
39 ‘ The talks can not go on indefinitely if the IRA go on killing and bombing and Mr Adams does n't come out to signal any opposition to them . ’
40 I have got to know him : he would not go round there unless she had given the all clear . ’
41 I recognise that this may not go as far as librarians would wish .
42 I would not go as far as one group which makes ‘ coupleness and a sense of call in husband and wife ’ one of their ten non-negotiables for church planters .
43 The indecent assaults did not go as far as the rapes but were ‘ equally repulsive ’ .
44 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 .
45 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 ’ .
46 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 .
47 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 :
48 They do not go as far as some countries , who plan to make actual cuts in emissions rates .
49 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 .
50 Branson was warned by another member of the party that this would not go down well and , sure enough , was told by the butler the following morning that he was no longer welcome .
51 This did not go down well and I was nearly ejected from the cab .
52 Several attempts , he wrote , had been made by " former prospectors " to sink upon this lode " but it is heavily watered that they could not go down more than 3 or 4 fathoms deep " .
53 On the one hand towards a more realist approach which is essential but can not go too far because if pursued at other than a meso-scale level is in danger of leading towards natural and biological sciences .
54 Some dubbed it a cosmetic exercise which did not go far enough and said too many concessions had already been made to industry .
55 Proposals to curb litter and waste did not go far enough and would land local authorities with extra bills but no additional resources .
56 In any case Kent County Council is concerned that they do not go far enough and has produced its own traffic strategy designed to reduce the pressure on smaller roads .
57 Doubts like this crystallize at one or two points , either where the presuppositions are so mixed and unsatisfactory that they are inaccurate , or where the presuppositions are true as far as they go but do not go far enough and so are incomplete .
58 At its July meeting the Council heard some members complain that the proposals did not go far enough and would not lead to greater freedoms for institutions , and heard others wonder if the long-term aim was in fact ‘ complete autonomy ’ .
59 My Lords for reasons that have already been explained to Your Lordships and which I will not pursue yet for , er it seems that everybody 's agreed that it is important that the erm local authority representatives should be in the majority and I have to admit that my amendments do not go that far because I was concentrating on getting the magistrates back where they ought to be , er but er that is one thing , the other is that it er was an interesting point that er the Noble Lord , Lord of Greenwich raised , that my Noble Friend Lord Whitelaw er at columns four eighty and four eight one er questioned whether it was indeed appropriate that er the Home Secretary should make these appointments .
60 So provides section 16 of the Partnership Act , 1890 , and the words have a comfortingly assured ring about them even though long and intimate acquaintance with that Act suggests that comfort will be impaired if here as at other points in the Act one indulges in deeper reflection ; and reflection need not go very deep before one becomes uneasy , because if one takes the words of section 16 into unqualified acceptance and seeks to apply them in practical situations , one does not have to envisage a great number of such situations to find some where the uncritical acceptance of section 16 will lead to manifest absurdity .
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