Example sentences of "[not/n't] go [adv] as [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | UNCED 's Secretary-General , Maurice Strong , has acknowledged that there will be " serious failures " at the summit , and added , in an oblique reference to the US , that " some countries are not going nearly as far as they could " . |
| 2 | On King Street Junior ( Radio 4 , Thursday ) things were not going quite as swimmingly as the Secretary of State might wish . |
| 3 | This did not go down as well as he might have hoped . |
| 4 | The Crofting Reform ( Scotland ) Act of 1976 did not go quite as far as this , but it did give the crofters the incontestable right to purchase their house and garden , and the optional ( though not incontestable ) right to purchase their land for 15 times the annual rent . |
| 5 | Many may have been persuaded or encouraged not to do so by the uncertainty in the law , so I would not go quite as far as my hon. Friend in suggesting that local authorities alone are to blame . |
| 6 | He left her at her door ; they had not gone down as far as the Green that day . |