Example sentences of "[modal v] not [verb] [adv] far [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is important that constituents should be able to consult us about confidential matters , but surely we should not go so far as to give comfort to murderers and bombers , as has been suggested . |
| 2 | We should not go so far as to hold a referendum , but the people must have the final say . |
| 3 | A punch should not extend so far as to throw the puncher off balance , nor should a block be carried more than six inches above the head . |
| 4 | I recognise that this may not go as far as librarians would wish . |
| 5 | Because of his Cartesianism , Malebranche could not go so far as to say that material objects were not really extended or in motion , but Pierre Bayle had argued that such restraint was unjustifiable . |
| 6 | Even Amabel could not go so far as to trouble Gemma . |
| 7 | We then asked him , if he could not go so far as to meet us in full , to introduce an empowering provision . |
| 8 | Lévi-Strauss has rendered social anthropology an invaluable service in emphasizing the significance of such contrasting motifs ; although we need not go so far as him and turn our subject into an esoteric animal , vegetable or mineral parlour-game in which every card is a joker and can assume whatever meaning the player likes . |
| 9 | But we need not go so far as that ; it will suffice to suppose that firms rise and fall , but that the ‘ representative ’ firm remains always of about the same size , as does the representative tree of a virgin forest . [ … ] |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 : |
| 12 | Even now , I would not go so far as to say it is a bad staff plan ; after all , it enables a staff of four to cover an unexpected amount of ground . |
| 13 | Dhanraj began by stating unequivocally that she saw film-making as a tool for socio-political challenge ( she would not go so far as to say change ) and that documentary was best suited to this purpose . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | A proper discussion of a football match can not occur if one of the participants is quite ignorant of the rules of the game ; and the kind of assessment of a restaurant meal that would involve the possible insertion of the establishment into a good food guide ( or perhaps its deletion from it ) will not get very far if one of the diners does not care for the meal because his idea of a gastronomic treat is a cheeseburger and french fries ( though within the order of the burger discriminations are possible ) . |
| 16 | ‘ I am to be questioned and interfered with and hounded , not to be left , doing a job of work the way I choose , a necessary job , a job our sister has made tediously inevitable , a job the result of which may save us from potential disgrace , even if we can not go so far as to expect it to improve our situation out of all recognition . |
| 17 | We can not go so far as that ; and I lay it down as fact that there never has been a real complete sceptic . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | It is often a good idea to have several small aquaria instead of one larger one , as it is easier to see the animals and to study them when they are in a small volume of water : they can not swim so far or so fast . |
| 20 | The National Security Council , they insist , hums with meetings on just this , but the meetings can not get very far until more is known about how the post-war world looks . |