Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [vb -s] [verb] [adv] far " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he speaks on social issues MPs from all sides listen , but in Birkenhead , Labour left-wingers , including some former supporters , believe his free thinking has gone too far . |
| 2 | As the years unfold , the penny will drop in the general council of the CBI , as much as on the commuter trains from Basildon , that the whole market-based experiment has gone as far as it can — and the new need is for a government and policies that actively manage the instability and short-termism of the British economy . |
| 3 | ‘ As an ex-sex symbol ’ , Miss Dors confessed , ‘ I usually amaze those who pose the question by saying that I believe the permissive society HAS gone too far . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ By the time the weary reader has plodded that far , it will be clear even to the uninitiated that writing this book was a labour of hate — for reasons reviewers can not be expected to discern and which are in any case of small interest . |
| 5 | But Copernican thinking has gone too far . |