Example sentences of "not go as [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I recognise that this may not go as far as librarians would wish . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The indecent assaults did not go as far as the rapes but were ‘ equally repulsive ’ . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ’ . |
| 6 | In Canada the Human Rights Act 1978 does not go as far as removing mandatory retirement ages ( although there is pressure growing to do so ) but does make it unlawful to deprive people of employment opportunities on grounds of age , as a result of policies or practices relating to recruitment promotion , training , or other personnel matters . |
| 7 | 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 : |
| 8 | They do not go as far as some countries , who plan to make actual cuts in emissions rates . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | But matters had not gone as smoothly as all that . |
| 11 | However the government has not gone as far as it might have . |
| 12 | In some areas , mechanisation is replacing labour although in the countryside this has not gone as far as on North American farms . |
| 13 | Nutley ( 1982 ) , analysing these data , suggests that decline may have proceeded mainly by frequency reductions which have not gone as far as complete closures . |
| 14 | Luckily , the bus was n't going as quickly as it would have had there been no traffic , but it was still doing twenty-odd mph . |
| 15 | We had n't gone as far as we would have liked , and it was touch and go until the very last moment , but we just squeezed past the point between Tanakeke island and the mainland . |
| 16 | ‘ 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 . |
| 17 | What started out as an objective assessment like ‘ That lesson did n't go as well as I had expected ’ gets recast as ‘ I made a mistake ’ which leads to ‘ I 'm a poor teacher ’ and even ‘ I 'm a failure ( as a person ) ’ . |
| 18 | I think it still is the way forward and I do n't think it was so much that things went wrong as that they did n't go as well as we had hoped for the women elections to the shadow cabinet . |
| 19 | Cos you do n't go as slow as this , even round here something like that Ann . |
| 20 | My pride of race did n't go as deep as my fear of disapproval . |
| 21 | But I confess I do n't go as often as I might , ’ Omi said . |
| 22 | ‘ I would n't go as far as that . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ I would n't go as far as to say that but I 'll admit you were in a rather nasty pickle . ’ |
| 24 | Then he looked up with a solemn expression and replied : ‘ Well , I would n't go as far as that . ’ |
| 25 | That 's it , though he does n't go as far as refusing to let you see his picture . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | That 's right , but it does n't go as far as the Glen , |
| 28 | ‘ So you could n't go as far as saying who it might have been calling on the Rector at that late hour ? ’ |
| 29 | ‘ The Atlantic does n't go as far as Tennessee , ’ she said . |
| 30 | You do n't go as far as Church Hill ! |