Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] far [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Furlanetto highlights so far include Don Alfonso in and an extraordinary ‘ double ’ — as the Count for Sir Colin Davis ( BMG/RAC ) , and Figaro for James Levine ( DG ) .
2 However , his search for alternative employment has so far met with no success .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 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 . ’
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 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 ?
10 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 .
11 It has so far reached a total of rather over half a million pounds .
12 The taskforce has so far charged 544 defendants and won 385 convictions .
13 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 .
14 It is the only card he has left in a game which has so far seen her win every hand .
15 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 .
16 No country has so far recognised Bougainville 's claim to independence .
17 Pennett was offered a one-season trial on Johnson 's recommendation , and says : ‘ It has so far gone better than I dared to hope .
18 This country has so far gone in the opposite direction .
19 New York has so far ignored Tokyo 's woes .
20 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 ’ .
21 It has so far overcome at the political level the doctrinal and organizational divisions between protestants .
22 The DTI has so far prosecuted 15 insider dealing cases involving 21 people since 1981 in which eight have resulted in not guilty verdicts .
23 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 .
24 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 .
25 Chinese pressure on the conference organisers has so far prevented the Tibetan spiritual leader from attending .
26 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 .
27 Excellent though Johnson has so far proven at the explorer 's notes , Boswell threatens to outdo him regarding Raasay .
28 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 .
29 The Jade fund to buy equipment for the special care baby unit has so far raised three thousand pounds
30 An appeal fund set up after the tragedy has so far raised £149,664 in memory of James .
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