Example sentences of "[adv] so far [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At least that way there is no way you can be held back by the so-called ‘ glass ceiling ’ — the phrase coined in the United States to describe the invisible barriers that allow women to rise only so far in an organisation . |
| 2 | Huy knew that it was because the policeman could trust him only so far after his confession . |
| 3 | Thanks to a fantastic response by WWF supporters to our African elephant appeal ( over £300,000 in the UK alone so far in 1989 ) , we have been able to step up vital elephant conservation projects on the ground in Africa . |
| 4 | It was quite another to feel she had made a complete fool of herself and taken her daughter alone so far from the safety of Four Winds . |
| 5 | The real Cardiff Bay barrage story is rather different from the one on the poster ( enough so far for a residents ' association , the Cardiff Flood Action Committee , to have complained to the Advertising Standards Authority , and for the RSPB to be considering following suit ) . |
| 6 | All re even the engine room was steam cos you had the bucket depth of dredging on that ladder was thirty six feet that 's what dredger can go down so far with the buckets going round and they used to dredge about thirty six feet . |
| 7 | Goal of the week belongs to Oxford United 's Les Robinson — a scorcher — a net bulger — the best so far for Central South . |
| 8 | The idea came vividly to mind during Fantastic voyage ( 15 March ) , by far the best so far of BBC2 's SF Film Festival series . |
| 9 | In recognition of the tremendous effort that the London Area Supervisory team had put into achieving the best State of Service in the U.K. in 1990 and the best so far in 1991 , and as thanks for their contribution to the servicing of the local authority work over the summer , Paul Stearn Area Manager for Pest Control London organised a meeting with a difference . |
| 10 | Erm I see so I 'm not really will make sure that erm that we are kept in touch so that we are not so far down the track but they ca n't be reversed committee as a whole |
| 11 | The King was already there , with half the court and the Mamelukes ; and a tent , shivering in the wind , had been set up but was not so far in use . |
| 12 | Agnew 's are not so far in receipt of any offer for it . |
| 13 | There have been ugly outbreaks in the other townships , but not so far in Harare . |
| 14 | So he jumped astride a tractor and was being driven at maximum speed when he was told by somebody landing one of his aircraft alongside " You are not so far in advance of Rommel 's recce tanks " . |
| 15 | Eros is , after all , not so far from Agape in the pantheon of the heart . |
| 16 | Whether or not we accept Eliot 's note that the title of ‘ The Hollow Men ’ draws on both Kipling 's ‘ The Broken Men ’ and Morris 's ‘ The Hollow Land ’ , there is little doubt that this ‘ valley of dying stars ’ is not so far from the landscapes of Victorian romanticism . |
| 17 | Doses and lengths of exposure time were high but ‘ not so far from the levels to which some people are exposed , particularly in the workplace ’ . |
| 18 | By and large , however , shrub roses are not so far from their natural origins and include many that are perpetual or recurrent flowering . |
| 19 | There was Moscow , the great military parade , the pride of the Soviet Union trooping in front of them and his father pointing to a man , not so far from them , a man with a big moustache and dark eyes . |
| 20 | ‘ Not so far from the truth . |
| 21 | We 're not so far from the border . |
| 22 | Henry Mansel the philosopher-theologian after all published in 1858 The Limits of Religious Thought arguing that we can know almost nothing positive about God ; this God is not so far from Tyndall 's inscrutable Power . |
| 23 | ‘ Talisker is not so far from Merkadale , and it is the largest population centre in Minginish . |
| 24 | Mixing paints is not so far from the pre-Mendelian vision of heredity , and even today popular culture frequently expresses heredity in terms of a mixing of ‘ bloods ’ . |
| 25 | The Bishop 's Castle Railway was not in Wales , but just over the border , not so far from it , was another fascinating rural railway . |
| 26 | Not so far from the Bishop 's Castle Railway another standard gauge branch line ran between Abermule and Kerry . |
| 27 | Those of us who are not so far from the notable Sugar Loaf Summit on the Central Wales Line ( Heart of Wales ) will recall this example of a Staff Halt . |
| 28 | All I know for definite is he lives down in Armagh , not so far from Newry , in the hills . |
| 29 | ‘ Someone not so far from here might just decide to take all those opportunities you wax so lyrical about away from you ! ’ |
| 30 | Isambard was taking it for granted , it seemed , that a boy of fifteen could easily be seduced into giving his confidence , or at least some incautious fringes of it , to companions not so far from his own age and under orders to ingratiate themselves with him . |