Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] far [vb pp] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | As you can see we 've so far spent just under 500 dollars ! ’ |
| 2 | The sociological models described so far needed to be recast . |
| 3 | However , his search for alternative employment has so far met with no success . |
| 4 | Research in the social sciences as a whole has so far done little to establish the relative strength of the effects of past and present on self-esteem . |
| 5 | The advent of Andy Reed belatedly persuaded the selectors to move Doddie Weir to No8 where , between the great-hearted , combative Turnbull and an Iain Morrison now reproducing his best London Scottish form , he has so far done splendidly as an embryonic Mervyn Davies or Murray Mexted . |
| 6 | For months , British diplomats have been wondering what to do with this thoroughbred stallion , an official present to the Prime Minister which has so far caused him nothing but embarrassment . |
| 7 | And of the party in the Fifties : ‘ the Great Debate in British socialism has so far consisted in one side talking nonsense and the other side keeping mum . ’ |
| 8 | But Mr Ashdown , who is demanding a full-scale coalition , has so far rejected anything that Labour has offered , threatening to vote against a Queen 's Speech that does not include a commitment to electoral reform ; and Mr Kinnock has said that he has made no overtures — not even played the ‘ opening chords ’ — which would lead to a post-election pact . |
| 9 | Third , the so-called ‘ welfare state ’ has so far appeared unable to remedy any but the grossest forms of economic and social deprivation or effectively to restrict the range of wider socio-economic inequalities , in spite of the fiscal burden imposed on the population and the productive system as a whole . |
| 10 | Will the Minister confirm that Her Majesty 's inspectorate of pollution has so far achieved just six prosecutions under integrated pollution control and the 1990 Act ? |
| 11 | FORTNUM & Mason , the Piccadilly store which has so far shrugged off the effects of recession , yesterday warned that it will be difficult to maintain profits in the 12 months to July . |
| 12 | It has so far reached a total of rather over half a million pounds . |
| 13 | The taskforce has so far charged 544 defendants and won 385 convictions . |
| 14 | The BBC series ‘ Revolutions in Sound ’ , broadcast in 1988 , gave great publicity to the possibility of these records existing , but nothing has so far turned up . |
| 15 | It is the only card he has left in a game which has so far seen her win every hand . |
| 16 | So it is that , despite much talk of changing the electoral system and the laws on financing political parties , Japan has so far seen no Italianate reaction to corruption scandals . |
| 17 | No country has so far recognised Bougainville 's claim to independence . |
| 18 | Pennett was offered a one-season trial on Johnson 's recommendation , and says : ‘ It has so far gone better than I dared to hope . |
| 19 | This country has so far gone in the opposite direction . |
| 20 | New York has so far ignored Tokyo 's woes . |
| 21 | No one has so far questioned the judgement that ‘ Montini 's letter is the single most important document for understanding not only the first session but the whole Vatican Council ’ . |
| 22 | It has so far overcome at the political level the doctrinal and organizational divisions between protestants . |
| 23 | The DTI has so far prosecuted 15 insider dealing cases involving 21 people since 1981 in which eight have resulted in not guilty verdicts . |
| 24 | Robins has so far scored seven goals after Ferguson sold him to Norwich for a cut-price £800,000 on the eve of the season . |
| 25 | What has so far prevented them from becoming assimilated to each other is not only the fact that in the field of psychotherapy , differing theories do not readily and happily intermix , but that each theory tends to take sides ( without this necessarily being apparent ) in the eternal dialogue between youth and age . |
| 26 | Chinese pressure on the conference organisers has so far prevented the Tibetan spiritual leader from attending . |
| 27 | Ludwig is also the Emperor 's bodyguard and his mere presence has so far proven enough to discourage any attempts on the Emperor 's life . |
| 28 | Excellent though Johnson has so far proven at the explorer 's notes , Boswell threatens to outdo him regarding Raasay . |
| 29 | Such a double-fisted attack has so far posed no extraordinary problems for librarians , but a series of events over the last few years illustrates that the issue of the law and censorship could become a major problem in the management of libraries . |
| 30 | The Jade fund to buy equipment for the special care baby unit has so far raised three thousand pounds |