Example sentences of "[verb] not gone [adv] far [subord] " in BNC.
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1 | However the government has not gone as far as it might have . |
2 | In some areas , mechanisation is replacing labour although in the countryside this has not gone as far as on North American farms . |
3 | They had not gone very far when a great brightness showed over the mountains beyond the forest , and suddenly in front of them they saw a beautiful young man , all dressed in gold , with a scarlet lining to his cloak . |
4 | He had not gone very far when the mysterious little girl suddenly appeared again , from the dry gully of a mountain stream . |
5 | Nutley ( 1982 ) , analysing these data , suggests that decline may have proceeded mainly by frequency reductions which have not gone as far as complete closures . |
6 | At present the authorities have not gone so far as this . |
7 | The courts have not gone so far as to give a cause of action in damages for the breach of such a promise , but they have refused to allow the party making it to act inconsistently with it . |