Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [that] [verb] [adv] far " in BNC.
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| 1 | Giving judgment in a case that has so far been heard in camera , Mr Justice Hoffmann ruled that Mr William Goodwin , a journalist working for The Engineer , must hand over his notes of a telephone conversation with his source . |
| 2 | That had been strange enough , but stranger yet was a footnote to the file : a footnote that revealed that far from the Aristotle File being the work of Soren Berdichev , as was claimed on the file itself , it had , in fact , been compiled and authored by the boy . |
| 3 | There is a deep feeling among those who practise fundamental science a feeling that has so far always proved reliable — that the way to true understanding is the one that satisfies the canons of economy and elegance ; the way which , in a word , is mathematically beautiful . |
| 4 | They can only conclude that ‘ Either badgers waste energy with the continued digging or very large burrows confer an advantage that has so far eluded us . ’ |
| 5 | The purpose for which the transaction is entered into , be it to make a profit or to further some divergent managerial interest , is not an issue that arises as far as questions of authorisation are concerned . |
| 6 | The Lombards had soon occupied an area that extended as far south as Perugia , though not all the way east to the Adriatic coast . |
| 7 | In part it is nervousness , but mostly is youthful exuberance , an exuberance that has so far made his career and yet paradoxically also threatens it . |