Example sentences of "go quite [adv] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | On King Street Junior ( Radio 4 , Thursday ) things were not going quite as swimmingly as the Secretary of State might wish . |
| 2 | Few , however , go quite as far as Dickens , who is apt to bum great houses down . |
| 3 | Again Balfour 's account is in substantial agreement , although he adds the gloss that when , at one stage in his summing up he referred to his assumption that Asquith would not serve under either Law or Lloyd George , Asquith intervened to say that he had not gone quite so far as that ; he must consult his friends before giving a final answer . |
| 4 | No-one else had gone quite as far as that , and the self-conscious Thiercelin had tried to look as if Lefevre was nothing to do with him . |
| 5 | If he did not go quite so far as Eric Linklater in believing that what Mary was doing down at Kirk o' Field during the last days of Darnley 's life in February 1567 was indulging a ‘ womanly zeal for nursing ’ , he certainly had no doubt of her innocence . |
| 6 | The Flower of Chivalry did not go quite so far as that . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Perhaps few of the inhabitants went quite so far as the parents of Fly-Fornication Richardson of Waldron or Small-hope Biggs of Rye in their statements of religious principle , but a dominant number of the eastern rural and urban elite found their religious and political sympathies increasingly divorced from the fumbling attempts of the Stuarts to impose their image of the monarchy . |