Example sentences of "[verb] not [verb] [adv] far 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 | ‘ 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 . |
| 4 | The light of the lamp did not reach as far as the high ceiling , and the fire had burned low . |
| 5 | Even the otherwise haughty Surrey committee was moved to complain about this lack of common courtesy , though naturally they did not go so far as to suggest meals should be taken in common . |
| 6 | Predictably , she was not sympathetic to the boisterous ways of a young teenager , though she did not go so far as a Mrs Dudley who complained to Bloomsbury House that one of her fifteen-year-old lodgers , Willy , had ‘ broken the beading on a wardrobe and had also broken a chair ’ , offences which most parents of healthy teenagers would have accepted as part of growing up . |
| 7 | He did not go so far as to offer to guide them onward to Gilsland , by night , since that would have been to insult the Armstrongs , Jardines and Johnstones . |
| 8 | They did not go so far as to learn the language of the peoples they studied , but they did spell out for later writers the ground rules of such research . |
| 9 | In that particular case the judges pronounced in general on the right of free speech , but did not go so far as to appoint experts to ascertain whether the accused was right in his criticism or not ( see The Art Newspaper No.14 , January 1992 , p.1 ) . |
| 10 | The indecent assaults did not go as far as the rapes but were ‘ equally repulsive ’ . |
| 11 | 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 ’ . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | A recent claim by an accident and emergency consultant in Sheffield that children , and even adults , could regrow their finger tips , providing that the injury did not extend as far as the terminal or end joint , was greeted with considerable scepticism by the medical profession . |
| 14 | the right of privacy did not extend so far as to confer a protected right on consenting adults to pursue their own choice in the matter of watching obscene and pornographic motion pictures within a theatre … [ even one ] not open to minors and which gave patrons due notice of the kind of entertainment provided . |
| 15 | He did not get as far as the main Cossack encampments at Peggetz and Oberdrauberg near Lienz , a considerable distance further west . |
| 16 | They do not go as far as some countries , who plan to make actual cuts in emissions rates . |
| 17 | Most recent historians would agree that the Hammonds were much too reluctant to accept that there was even serious talk of revolution , although the majority do not go so far as Thompson in their assessment of the seriousness of the threat . |
| 18 | She did n't go so far as to give me her telephone number , but I prudently copied it from the instrument at a point during the interview when she was distracted : when one of Brenda 's children had somehow slipped into the room to find a drum stacked halfway down a pile of similar toys . |
| 19 | I 've heard it repeated on the radio recently and even the Secretary of State did n't go so far as to use the ninety percent figure but was talking about the seriously mentally ill and the not so seriously mentally ill . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | They did n't get as far as the Tibetan border , where the exchange rate would have been better . |
| 22 | You do n't go as far as Church Hill ! |
| 23 | Well you do n't go as far as Church Hill then . |
| 24 | The form is all you have in the initial stages , and if you do n't erm fill it out sensibly then you do n't get as far as the interview , when of course your individual personality can start to come through . |
| 25 | However , even by the middle years of the nineteenth century an industrial city like Manchester had not expanded so far as to prevent its mill workers walking in the country on Sundays . |
| 26 | Even then , he had not got as far as thinking what would be the music that introduced the News and all at once the screen was filled with a picture of his own house , a picture that nearly jolted him out of his skin . |
| 27 | They had not got as far as Bamburgh , being warned by scouts of an English reinforcement army from Newcastle on the march northwards , which could have caused complications . |
| 28 | That day , by way of the radio popolo the news of the rastrellamento spread like wildfire , but it had not spread as far as Eric 's farm . |
| 29 | 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 ’ . |
| 30 | Fitzgerald herself does not go so far as to suggest that they should not be used at all . |