Example sentences of "go quite as [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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |