Example sentences of "has [adv] gone [adv] [adv] " 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 It has long been clear that IBM Corp 's latest restructuring into 13 somewhat autonomous business units has taken too long and has not gone far enough , and the company has called an extraordinary board meeting for this Tuesday to decide what cuts need to be made to meet 1993 targets .
4 ‘ How are things at 6 Commando area , Piper ? ’ he enquired , ‘ The attack by the Black Watch has not gone too well judging by the number of wounded passing through here ! ’
5 The good news is that the most common infestation , by the woodworm — or anobium punctatum or furniture beetle , call it what you will — can be treated , so long as it has not gone too far into the timbers , at a cost of a few hundred pounds .
6 If the work has not gone too far , there is often some blank page , or part of one , where these can be noted ; otherwise they will normally be printed on a special slip or leaf which can be ‘ tipped-in ’ ( lightly attached by glue or paste at the inner edge ) .
7 Given that the Prime Minister correctly said last night that Maastricht will be an important stage on the road to even closer European union , what does he say today to those of his right hon. Friends who say that he has already gone far enough down the road to political and monetary union and , in their words , we should stay where we are ?
8 The man who , in order to understand the inner world of a cannibal tribe , has partaken of the practice of cannibalism , has probably gone too far : he can never quite be one of his own folk again .
9 ‘ It was a huge blow to their pride to discover how far behind they had fallen during isolation — yet coach John Williams has now gone too far the other way .
10 ‘ It has n't gone anywhere yet . ’
11 Well usually usually not always but just about always he 's at home he has n't gone anywhere so how far away is he zero as well so you get zero zero goes through the origin .
12 ‘ 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 .
13 With opinion polls showing support for the party at its lowest mid-term level for decades , the common belief is not that the Government is out-of-touch or seen as tired and uncaring , but that it has n't gone far enough .
14 One ARENA spokesman has even gone so far as to suggest that there are nine to ten women in the party for every man .
15 One such protagonist has recently gone so far as to claim that Aristotle 's Phantasmata — the mental images that are involved in most or all mental activities — are identical with the symbols on which computational procedures are carried out .
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