Example sentences of "[adv] far [verb] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gerry Grimstone , a director of Schroders , the Government 's merchant bank for the water flotations , claimed that the response so far had been extremely encouraging , with interest spread broadly across the country and ‘ no signs of an investor strike ’ in any of the regions . |
| 2 | The journey so far had been an eye-opener . |
| 3 | His life so far had been crowded with people , familiar but not friends , guardians like Fiery or the nurserymaids , boys at school or companions chosen for him . |
| 4 | Victory , perhaps to their own surprise , now seemed almost within the invaders ' grasp but at a Council of War , held at the prince 's headquarters in Exeter House , Derby , on the morning of Thursday 5 December , Lord George Murray , whose tactics so far had been masterly , astounded his fellow-commanders by remarking that ‘ the first thing to be spoken of was how far it was prudent to advance further ’ . |
| 5 | A burly constable was already standing by the public telephone , and no-one so far had been sufficiently intrepid as to approach him . |
| 6 | Her only brush with the topic so far had been a visit to Mortimer 's Hole at Nottingham Castle . |
| 7 | The treatment so far had been innocuous : quinine pills and injections of alum water . |
| 8 | Mr Bartell said privatisation of the service so far had been ‘ farcical ’ with escapes from the new Group 4 escort service and reports from the privately run Wolds Prison of drug and alcohol abuse . |
| 9 | This neutralised the efforts of the consortium since all funds committed so far had been for the purchase of the collection intact ; they could not be used for individual sale bids or any subsequent related negotiations . |
| 10 | Each stage of the selection process so far had been a complete surprise : the waiting tended to heighten the anticipation and sense of cowed nervousness we all felt . |
| 11 | Cotterell 's experience so far had been that RCO had virtually pre-written most of Carson 's material for him . |
| 12 | He returned to London from Lancaster in 1862 without job or income , sensing that his life so far had been a failure . |
| 13 | It would not be simple at all , because nothing she had told him so far had been trusted . |
| 14 | Someone moved , close by , someone whose approach so far had been in silence , and she quickly took her hand away . |
| 15 | The only substantial aid received by the government so far had been $300,000,000 from the United States agreed by the US Congress in May 1990 [ see p. 37450 ] , which had been gradually disbursed , except for $50,000,000 which had been set aside for clearing debt arrears . |
| 16 | Virtually nothing so far had been published on its birds . |
| 17 | He also said US airdrops so far had been grossly lacking in penicillin and anaesthetics vital for surgery . |
| 18 | The earliest so far discovered are dragonflies . |
| 19 | Money so far raised is being used to increase the number of donors . |
| 20 | The largest single shipload so far discovered were the 524 Chinese passengers on the East Wood which had to call for help when it broke down near the Marshall Islands earlier this year . |
| 21 | The earliest and simplest of these marvellous devices so far discovered were those produced by the magnolias . |
| 22 | The neutron flux so far obtained is insufficient to attain the desired accuracy of measurement . ’ |
| 23 | Unfortunately , the spatial resolution of the best radar images so far obtained is too poor to have revealed such tell-tale signs . |
| 24 | The area so far excavated was the size of a football pitch , and deep enough for three levels of laboratories and workshops that would be concrete-lined . |
| 25 | THE best sermon I have so far heard was on the subject of ‘ ontological anxiety ’ . |
| 26 | The highest counts so far recorded are of c. 2,400 on 13 October 1973 , and 2,480 on 25 September 1976 . |
| 27 | This usually involves over 1,000 birds , and the highest count so far recorded was of 1,535 in Chichester Harbour on 30 January 1972 . |
| 28 | It can and should be argued that most of the performance measures so far developed are , however , measures of research output rather than of administrative efficiency . |
| 29 | The evidence so far gathered is very inadequate , so we could not be sure , but there does seem to be some tendency to concentrate . |
| 30 | In the January 1972 hearings of the Select Committee on Expenditure of the House of Commons , repeated requests made by Members of Parliament for a list of the programmes subject to analysis and for copies of the reports so far prepared were denied . |