Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb past] [adv] far " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last year , there were protracted negotiations for Tucson , Arizona-based direct rival Artisoft Inc to take over Performance , which got as far as the two signing a letter of intent to that effect . |
| 2 | At the foot of the mound they halted and peered up at the statue , eerie under its glaze of ice , which stared sightlessly far above their heads . |
| 3 | He hit a huge drive which rolled so far that it ended in deep rough . |
| 4 | They debouched from this second strait into a broad body of water which stretched as far as the eye could see toward the setting sun … |
| 5 | As soon as she drew up to the roundabout at the top of Woodstock Road , she found herself in traffic which stretched as far as the eye could see , and when she switched on the car radio , she discovered that the only sound it would make was an assortment of squeaks and crackles . |
| 6 | Belorussia , in these new circumstances , began to raise territorial claims against Lithuania , which extended as far as the Lithuanian capital Vilnius . |
| 7 | On March 10 Roman attributed the NSF losses to the economic difficulties in the cities , which had thus far borne the brunt of economic restructuring , and to the divisions within the party . |
| 8 | Partly because it was increasing in numbers ; more particularly because it was seeking to gain a foothold in the rural parishes which had thus far been largely impervious to its appeal and especially because , in the era of the French Revolution , anything which seemed to pose a threat to the Church of England established by law was suspect . |
| 9 | All the work which had so far been done received very little recognition , because CCs were not on offer to the breed in this country . |
| 10 | Some of those who did not possess a faith in God which was proof against all adversities now saw that the great hope of a relief force reaching them , which had so far buoyed them up , was an illusory one ; even if a relief now came , in many different ways it would be too late and not only because so many of the garrison were already dead ; India itself was now a different place ; the fiction of happy natives being led forward along the road to civilization could no longer be sustained . |
| 11 | Although this event would signify the end not merely of another king in the nation , but of a dynasty which had so far extended unbroken into prehistory , no one had any idea just when it would take place . |
| 12 | On March 12 Mandela , continuing a foreign tour which had so far included Zimbabwe and Ethiopia and Tanzania as well as Zambia , travelled to Sweden , whose government had shown the greatest support for the ANC outside Africa . |
| 13 | President Bush for his part stressed the importance of progress under the bilateral Structural Impediments Initiative ( SII ) talks , the third round of which had taken place on Feb. 22-23 between US and Japanese trade officials , but which had so far produced little concrete progress toward the elimination of what the USA termed Japan 's unfair import barriers . |
| 14 | A review of this policy , however , had urged " a more cautious attitude " towards the mainland , which had so far failed to respond to Taiwan 's initiatives on government-to-government contacts [ see p. 37455 ] . |
| 15 | Delegates agreed to open Eureka 's project database to east European companies and research institutes , although funding would , as in other countries , have to come from their own resources or from the governments ( which had so far provided less than 30 per cent of funding ) . |