Example sentences of "can [adv] go [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In these conditions , the type of homosexuality that is mediated through pop music can only go just so far : in a perfect paradigm , Frankie Goes to Hollywood exploited the gay image of lead singers Paul Rutherford and Holly Johnson — for ‘ Relax ’ — and then dropped it like a hot potato as soon as another marketing device — this time , nuclear war became available for ‘ Two Tribes ’ . |
| 2 | Likewise it is smarter of the donkey to explain calmly that it can only go so fast , than to keep trying to bite its owner . |
| 3 | Grammar , as I pointed out in the preceding chapter , can only go so far . |
| 4 | Well there 's the gate , he can only go so far with the gate anyway , so it wo n't really matter yeah yeah you ought to see all the pegs at the back of me fridge |
| 5 | We can only go so far as union negotiators . |
| 6 | I accept the valuable role played by the Minister , but does he accept that , although sponsorship is valuable , even more important is the fact that institutions such as the Royal Opera House can not go much further in the sponsorship race and will require funding ? |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . |
| 8 | We can not go so far as that ; and I lay it down as fact that there never has been a real complete sceptic . |
| 9 | We can not go any further this way , no . |
| 10 | I mean when Rutherford did his experiments years and years ago he produced his planetary model of the nucleus , of the atom where the nucleus plays the role of the sun and the electrons play the role of the planets , and people said well why do n't they just spiral in an erm Rutherford had actually no answer to this , but the answer to this was produced by the Danish physicist Nils Bore , who said ‘ Well they do n't spiral in because erm electrons can not just take up any orbit , they can take up certain specified orbits which he called stationary states , and there is a lowest one of these , and when the electron gets down there it can not go any further . |
| 11 | ( In this paper I can not go very far into the available wealth of fact and conjecture in the neurophysiology of language , psycholinguistic theories of language acquisition , and comparative studies of man and other primates . |
| 12 | But comparison with the press can not go very far . |
| 13 | With your foot in that condition you can not go very far . |
| 14 | Omelettes ( you can not go too far wrong with an omelette , unless it is made with cheese , so no cheese , please ) |
| 15 | At the same time , one can not go too far with this . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | They can always go somewhere else |
| 18 | ‘ She 's had the D and C. Everything straightforward , and she can probably go home tomorrow . ’ |
| 19 | Anyway , we 'll do what we can without going too far . |
| 20 | Many students tie themselves in knots in only four bars , and can then go no further because they have concentrated on complex harmonizations and ignored the thematic flow . |