Example sentences of "[vb -s] not go [adv] [adv] " 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 | It has long been clear that IBM Corp 's latest restructuring into 13 somewhat autonomous business units has taken too long and has not gone far enough , and the company has called an extraordinary board meeting for this Tuesday to decide what cuts need to be made to meet 1993 targets . |
| 4 | ‘ How are things at 6 Commando area , Piper ? ’ he enquired , ‘ The attack by the Black Watch has not gone too well judging by the number of wounded passing through here ! ’ |
| 5 | The good news is that the most common infestation , by the woodworm — or anobium punctatum or furniture beetle , call it what you will — can be treated , so long as it has not gone too far into the timbers , at a cost of a few hundred pounds . |
| 6 | If the work has not gone too far , there is often some blank page , or part of one , where these can be noted ; otherwise they will normally be printed on a special slip or leaf which can be ‘ tipped-in ’ ( lightly attached by glue or paste at the inner edge ) . |
| 7 | Stressing the need ‘ to behave in a manner which is neither racist nor sexist , ’ ‘ to uphold individual rights , ’ and ‘ to cooperate and consult with the community and other agencies in pursuing our purpose ’ has not gone down well with conservative officers . |
| 8 | This has not gone down too well with the Torinese , who want a more prestigious side to inaugurate their new stadium . |
| 9 | Actually , it is rather surprising that the labour cost has n't gone up more , especially in view of the national rates . |
| 10 | on top of that I ca n't understand it I mean do , alright , have , but if the petrol 's gone up , it has n't gone up that much |
| 11 | But she has n't gone up there for ages . |
| 12 | ‘ It has n't gone anywhere yet . ’ |
| 13 | Well usually usually not always but just about always he 's at home he has n't gone anywhere so how far away is he zero as well so you get zero zero goes through the origin . |
| 14 | ‘ 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 . |
| 15 | The ultimate expression of player power has n't gone down too well back in New Zealand , where the NZRFU chief executive George Verry said : ‘ I ca n't recall a precedent for such comments , but I 'm sure the rules have provisions for dealing with players who bring the game into disrepute ’ . |
| 16 | With opinion polls showing support for the party at its lowest mid-term level for decades , the common belief is not that the Government is out-of-touch or seen as tired and uncaring , but that it has n't gone far enough . |
| 17 | Unfortunately , this weighty tome does not go nearly far enough into this fascinating world of the interrelationships that ants have with the plants and other animals in their day-to-day business of running the world : Rather , we have a specialised symposium that concentrates on the largely negative aspects of viewing some of the world 's most fascinating species only as anthropogenic pests . |
| 18 | Of course , employers ' sick pay does not go on indefinitely . |
| 19 | He does not go abroad much which is as well since he has little sense of direction and has twice been found many miles from home wandering the streets . |
| 20 | Apparently the green movement is worried that the rind may carry pesticides ; a new generation of beer purists dislike the lemon ; and it does not go so well with the heavily sedimented style currently favoured . |
| 21 | It does not go so far to ensure proportionality as other variants , but would involve the least departure from the existing system , would retain single-member constituencies which many regard as being a valuable feature of the present system , and would be much the simplest to understand in operation . |
| 22 | Although Johnson does not go so far as to claim that the affectless society was responsible for the Moors Murders , she does feel able to argue that the general atmosphere in society at the time had ‘ infected ’ the social system , and that ‘ Brady possibly , Hindley almost certainly , have been victims of fallout ’ . |
| 23 | Fitzgerald herself does not go so far as to suggest that they should not be used at all . |
| 24 | Christine Brooke-Rose does not go so far as to disavow authorial creativity altogether , but she too sees technology as the possible key to a breakthrough in how we think about the human subject . |
| 25 | However he does not go so far as to paraphrase by " see that " , as does Palmer . |
| 26 | But the US Environmental Protection Agency has decided that the voluntary withdrawal does not go far enough . |
| 27 | This would be useful , but it does not go far enough . |
| 28 | As I said before , the Handbook of Human Intelligence is excellent as far as it goes , but it certainly does not go far enough ; perhaps the second edition will improve on this sad state of affairs ! |
| 29 | The NSPCC view is that while the current Criminal Justice Act will introduce some welcome improvements , it does not go far enough . |
| 30 | While his conclusions may be correct — and we discuss this at greater length in the next chapter — his evidence , unfortunately , does not go far enough to give weight to them . |