Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] far [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 From the bidding so far it seems that East is sitting over North with a strong and long diamond holding .
2 Now I think in our experience so far we find that erm the accounts clerks in the back office are those who are most likely to be bashing away at the character terminals , those are the people who are bashing data into the system .
3 If there is one overriding message that has been reinforced by the experience so far it is that the most productive approach is one that flows from an attitude of , and a commitment to , continuous improvement .
4 In this chapter so far we have focused on specificities in your argument — the presuppositions in your sentences , the specific things you can say about particular texts , the setting of something in its context , and so on .
5 Sharing with relatives after divorce So far I have concentrated upon two situations in which people may live with relatives , both of which probably would be regarded as a predictable part of the normal life cycle .
6 In the illustrations of projection so far I have suggested that broadly speaking there are two kinds : ( 1 ) where the participants are allowed to be passive observers becoming more actively engaged as and when they wish , and ( 2 ) where from the beginning the participants are required to do something .
7 In considering priorities so far we have considered the priorities involved in choice .
8 This means that in the presentation so far it has been implied that the placing of stress is independent of and prior to the choice of intonation .
9 Each day so far we 'd driven into the left rough and finished up taking bogey-fives .
10 The ideology is talked about less ( though Social Security Secretary Peter Lilley has his hour of glory at the Conservative Party conference ) , but on the evidence so far it is doubtful whether Major 's much-vaunted caring image will ever filter through to meaningful policy change .
11 Yet when he set off on 20 September 1519 , with a royal mandate to search for a passage through to the Mar del Sur , and thus to determine for certain that the Spice Islands were within the Spanish domains , he had not the foggiest notion how far he might have to travel .
12 And I think that 's that 's a wonderful experience to realize that er you can be part of you know cos surely finally working men and women through history have never without sticking together they 'd they 'd still be back you know in the in the dark ages as far you know .
13 George Plimpton , Penguin £6.99 So far we have had eight collections of interviews from The Paris Review .
14 er right erm tt yep that seems to be okay I did n't erm no I was reading this on , this morning just after the clinical lecture and I did n't see anything that , that I thought would be problematic erm you know given , you know , sort of what I 've seen in your coursework so far you seem to have got a fairly good idea of what you can ask and what you can get away with and what sorts of things you think are useful and , and , and stuff like that so erm you know I 'm entirely happy with your judgment as to the content erm you know because it 's part of an ongoing pr project and it 's not just something that you 've , you 've knocked off in half an hour or anything so erm
15 That 's the news so far we 're back tomorrow lunchtime and do n't forget to put your clocks back one hour we all get an extra hour in bed tomorrow morning .
16 A pro knows within a few yards how far he can hit the ball with each club — unlike the club golfer who has a wide variation from day to day , and even from hole to hole .
17 Anyway , and if we win erm all three things , all three matches so far we 've won the Coca-Cola Cup , we 're gon na play for the fa , erm erm the F A Cup , and then we 're gon na play for the Premiere League , and if we win all the other three George 'll be the only manager in history to win all three things .
18 Judging from the reception at every performance so far they have succeeded .
19 I will be discussing with the Irish Hockey Union how far I would like to go — and then it will be a matter of reaching a compromise .
20 They still employed enough hired and expensive help to negotiate for them , but with instructions how far they could go .
21 In a foreword to Euro rebel Michael Spicer 's book A Treaty Too Far she said : ‘ The first duty of the Conservative Party is to uphold the constitution .
22 In all of our examples so far we could calculate the flux through a simple surface .
23 I need to see this action as one step — even if we lose it will perhaps serve to show the nation how far it has fallen , that it no longer is concerned that such things happen in its midst .
24 As Mr Frohnmayer writes : ‘ Few , it seems , are willing to take on those who cloak themselves in the mantle of religion , no matter how far they stray from religious doctrine or behaviour . ’
25 Yet no matter how far you progress with this , ultimately you will have serious problems with an opponent of equal skill but faster-acting muscles .
26 The earth curved up and around me wherever I went , as if I were at the bottom of a dish , and no matter how far I travelled I could get no nearer the rim — like a spaceman hurtling , as he thinks , towards the edge of the universe , only to find it unfolding before him and closing in behind , so that he is always at the centre .
27 Summarizing our findings so far we may conclude that the ego , far from emerging fully formed , in fact underwent a very lengthy and indeed complex process of development in the evolution of the human race .
28 In our discussion so far we have concentrated particularly on the physical context in which single utterances are embedded and we have paid rather little attention to the previous discourse co-ordinate .
29 Kausmann shows how far we have come from the 19th century , when a girl 's linen box , full of beautifully embroidered monogrammed sheets , was part of her dowry .
30 Have you any idea how far it went in ? ’
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