Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb -s] so far " in BNC.

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1 The story goes so far as to suggest that Hewlett-Packard threatened to resign from OSF over the pace of development but changed its mind .
2 Hitachi was one of six Japanese companies invited to invest in Kaleida ( CI No 1,931 ) , and of the other five , only Toshiba Corp has so far stuck its head above the parapet with an agreement with Apple to license Kaleida technology and use it in jointly developed products ; others invited to join were Matsushita Electric Industrial Co , Sharp Corp , Sony Corp and NEC Corp .
3 British Rail has so far totally failed to do so .
4 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 .
5 All the same , the insurer has so far agreed to pay £8 million in compensation to investors , a significant pile of money even for a major company , and a nasty hit to take for one slip in its monitoring system .
6 The Left Coalition has so far ruled out linking up with the conservatives again — the improbable alliance of last June has been blamed for much of their drop in support — but has already hinted that it would be willing to support a national unity government as proposed by the New Democrat leader Mr Constantine Mitsotakis .
7 The Advanced Courses Development Programme has so far involved two phases of pilot courses , each phase having represented a stage in the progression from the current Advanced Courses system to a system based on the principles in the Policy Paper .
8 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 .
9 But a bungled , unlawful business deal has so far cost them £5.3m and led to the sacking of all the BRDC 's 12 directors .
10 An appeal fund set up after the tragedy has so far raised £149,664 in memory of James .
11 Our starting point for analysing structure happens to have been with an exercise , the form of drama popularised by Brian Way , and yet little attempt has so far been made by him or by anyone else to show how these apparently slight adjustments within the structure of the exercise can seriously affect the outcome .
12 No attempt has so far been made to incorporate the two higher levels ( discourse rules and world knowledge ) within the present project .
13 This chapter has so far focused mainly upon south Korea and on the American-Soviet deliberations upon producing a unified administration .
14 The discussion in this chapter has so far not explicitly recognized the changes that have been taking place and will continue to take place in manufacturing methods .
15 Although this review has so far concentrated on those findings which reveal most clearly opposite visual hemifield superiorities for verbal and non-verbal ( especially visuo-spatial ) stimuli it is impossible for one familiar with work in this field not to be struck by the lability of the laterality effects reported ( Cohen , 1982 ) .
16 While not denying the clinical value of the EEG as a non-invasive technique it is probably fair to conclude that electro-physiological research has so far not contributed anything new to our knowledge of cerebral asymmetry but rather has corroborated findings from other areas of investigation .
17 Little systematic research has so far been undertaken into the relationship between subject studied and success for non-traditionally qualified students .
18 Although some bizarre interchanges therefore seem to be real occurrences in these families , the research has so far been unable to convincingly demonstrate a causal link between such communication abnormalities and the development of schizophrenia in the child .
19 The club has so far played two games and is undefeated .
20 In fact , the Committee goes so far as to assert that business and industry have no distinctive educational needs , and is thereby able to collapse point 2 in its terms of reference ( " the needs of business , the professions and the public services " ) into point 1 ( " the requirements of a liberal education " ) .
21 However , the effect of specific inhibition of platelet activating factor by a specific receptor antagonist has so far been evaluated in models of experimental colitis only .
22 Disappointingly , the committee has so far felt able to recommend only a tiny step towards establishing acceptable levels of medical staffing in the NHS .
23 Dainty 's work has so far concentrated on using the technique to grow silicon nitride on silicon , with the hope of a later move to III/V substrates .
24 Little work has so far focused on plant pathogens , but it is likely that this will ultimately develop as another component of integrated pest-management strategies .
25 Work has so far concentrated on the east end .
26 Little work has so far been done to link strategic possibilities with share valuations .
27 The discussion will be brief because much less work has so far been done on acquired dysgraphia than on acquired dyslexia .
28 Although the Peace Tax Campaign has so far eschewed the use of extra-constitutional forms of dissent , confining itself for the most part to orthodox expressions of protest such as parliamentary lobbying and legal action in the courts , the failure of conventional forms of political protest to influence the prevailing defence strategy/taxation policy could have important implications regarding the future choice of tactics to be used .
29 This is more than a million million million times as long as the universe has so far existed .
30 2 In support and sponsorship of Durham County Cricket Club , which is all very well but does n't get the groceries in , the County Council has so far spent £145,000 .
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