Example sentences of "[adv] far [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The only way we can set about obtaining some is to raise the public profile of the case , which is so far limited to the bald facts of your husband 's murder . ’ |
| 2 | Neither of her parents were church-goers and her father had so far lapsed from his native Catholicism as to despise and detest ‘ the whole primitive priestly caboodle ’ , as he called it . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | In late April 1949 the decision was taken to establish an augmented Korean Military Advisory Group ( KMAG ) to function as part of the American mission in Korea with responsibility for the training mission so far undertaken by the provisional military advisory group . |
| 5 | Excellent though Johnson has so far proven at the explorer 's notes , Boswell threatens to outdo him regarding Raasay . |
| 6 | Certainly their substance should be accessible to anyone not so far gone in the contemplation of astrology — a science , so it is widely held , on the cogent grounds that its practitioners use computers — homeopathy , aromatherapy , or telekinesis as to be beyond the reach of reason . |
| 7 | She was not so far gone in the sinful practice of dissimulation that she felt free to claim that she meant to ask them because she knew Betty would be pleased , and she could think of no other remotely credible reason for doing so . |
| 8 | This country has so far gone in the opposite direction . |
| 9 | Lizzy was so far gone by this time that she just smiled at them as they took her out to the meat wagon . |
| 10 | And with the help of naturalists and ecologists ( and some of the best are very much aware of these added dimensions to their subjects ) it becomes possible to do consciously what has so far remained in the instinctive realm . |
| 11 | The only clue so far discovered of any value to a possible dating of his return is the fact that , according to Bursali Mehmed Tahir , there exists a copy of one of his most famous works , the written in his own hand , presented to Mehmed II , and dated 878/1473–4 it would not thus be unreasonable to suppose that Molla Husrev wrote the copy especially for Mehmed II , this in turn suggesting that by 878 Molla Husrev had made up his quarrel with the sultan and had perhaps returned to Istanbul . |
| 12 | Fletcher acknowledged that losing all four Tests on this tour , after the 3-0 series defeat in India , was of far greater concern than any of the four defeats so far suffered in seven one-day internationals . |
| 13 | To some extent , all that we have so far said about multimedia development is really a description of multimedia databases . |
| 14 | The examples given so far relate to developments within a single national social order . |
| 15 | They can calculate all too clearly that the average value of sterling has fallen 17.5 per cent , ( and over 25 per cent against the dollar ) since September , and the price of fuel and raw materials for industry has so far risen by just over 10 per cent , while retail prices have actually fallen . |
| 16 | It is now proposing a $25 million loan to Cameroon under its new Global Environment Facility ( GEF ) , to ‘ protect areas of tropical forest , ’ though this will be coupled with a $30 million forestry loan for ‘ sustainable management ’ of rainforests — a concept so far unproven in the tropics . |
| 17 | It has so far overcome at the political level the doctrinal and organizational divisions between protestants . |
| 18 | The Home Office said one company had so far applied for a licence . |
| 19 | The Northern Ireland Act 1982 provides for the existing Assembly ( which lacks both legislative and executive powers ) to make proposals for the transfers to the Assembly of legislative and executive powers but such proposals must be such as to be ‘ likely to command widespread acceptance throughout the community ’ and although attempts are currently under way to evolve such proposals , they have not so far met with success . |
| 20 | However , his search for alternative employment has so far met with no success . |
| 21 | that this conference congratulates our Bolshevik comrades of Russia on their splendid efforts to bring about a general peace , and their unflinching opposition to the brigands of international capital , though we deplore the fact that their efforts to stir the workers of all the belligerents to revolutionary action has not so far met with success , yet we promise to do all in our power to awaken the proletariat of this country to class consciousness so that a speedy end may overtake the tyranny of capital . |
| 22 | Jupiter is about 11 times the diameter and about 1300 times the volume of the Earth , and in its size and in many other respects is a very different world from the terrestrial planets that you have so far met in this book . |
| 23 | Our members wanted it and in many industries it makes sense , but the bigger task , the main event , is to see whether by a more formal relationship , a more formal partnership , we can build a union which is better than the T & G , better than the G M B and better suited for modern conditions than any trade union so far created in Britain . |
| 24 | In that case the solutions that I have so far given to the first equation would no longer be acceptable , but one could take x=1 , y=2 , and z=1 . |
| 25 | We can begin here by reflecting that the account so far given of the internal culture of the academic community is somewhat misleading . |
| 26 | What I had so far seen of Binbrook held no charms for me — it was bare , isolated , and I did n't really want to seek out yet another Met Office with another set of people to get to know , now that the war was over , and there was no reason that I could see for us to continue plotting charts and reading instruments . |
| 27 | Kind he might be , although it seemed improbable from what she had so far seen of him , but Sally-Anne wanted nothing from men , neither kindness … nor love … nor anything . |
| 28 | ‘ Sunken featured building ’ is a cumbersome and inelegant term adopted for relatively small structures erected over a sub-rectangular pit dug in the ground , ranging in size from 3 × 2 m up to the largest so far excavated at Upton ( Northamptonshire ) which measured 9.1 × 5.5 m ( Jackson et al . |
| 29 | So far lost to sanity were many of the Dark Elves that they readily agreed . |
| 30 | Scotland have so far lost in Switzerland and drawn at home to Portugal , failing on both occasions to reproduce the fluency that lit up Norrkoping in June . |