Example sentences of "the [noun] [adv] far " 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 However we have been delighted by the response so far .
3 The response so far has been promising .
4 ORGANISERS of an appeal to collect food and medicine for deprived Russian children are delighted at the response so far .
5 –here property has been settled on terms which provide for one or more beneficiaries to become entitled to an interest in possession in it on or before a specified age which does not exceed twenty-five but meantime no such interest in possession subsists and the income so far as not applied for maintenance education or benefit of any beneficiary is to be accumulated , neither a payment made out of the property nor the arising to a beneficiary of an interest in possession in it is to be treated as a chargeable transfer .
6 Comparable buildings are also visible from the air north of the defences as far as the River Nene , apart from the low-lying Billing Brook area .
7 After electricity privatization , however , the government is allowing power companies to select which stations should be fitted with FGD ; the majority thus far have been in eastern England .
8 Now say for instance that because of the minimum solvency er agreement the employers have got to pay whatever their loss is , and if and I asked this question of the T U C that if there was a situation of where the employees were in the majority and forget the pension regulator , because there was a regulator anyway , so you can add whatever name that y you liked to have , but the fraud still went on , but say the employees were in the majority as far as the trustees is concerned and they were in full control and the control was taken away from the employers and there was a a federation of the hundred and twenty eight thousand with a central fund paying off heavy loss of any minimum solvencies , then surely that would be the ideal situation in order to safeguard , because when I asked Goodey himself when he submitted his report , he said they could not give any categ categorical assurance that nobody could defraud in any scheme under the proposals he 's made .
9 Much of the funding so far has come from the US , through the Environmental Protection Agency , the Agency for International Development , and the US World Wide Fund for Nature 's conservation fund .
10 Criticism has come mainly from local authorities , which reckon that the funding so far promised falls far short of that required .
11 ‘ It 's done the trick so far .
12 There is still some way to go before we have an agreement on economic and monetary union , but the discussions so far have shown that it is possible to thrash out a sensible position in negotiations .
13 Semantic analysis may also be able to provide some feedback mechanism concerning the domain of the sentence so far .
14 The investigations so far have shown no evidence of such an elaborate organization , ’ Kopyion seemed to answer before he 'd finished .
15 The force estimates that £650,000 has been spent on the investigations so far .
16 On his retirement in 1961 he returned to his home at Dunlop , Ayrshire , and devoted himself to analysis and further surveys of megalithic sites ( ‘ stone circles ’ ) from the Orkneys as far south as the well-known Carnac site in Brittany , with over 2,000 stones .
17 This remains very largely the case so far as written questions are concerned .
18 … no inconsiderable sacrifice to put in the time and effort that this sort of work requires , particularly when , as I fear has been the case so far , it has to be pursued at rather a breakneck speed .
19 ‘ What is your view of the case so far ? ’
20 This has not been the case so far this year with several results ’ , one of which is that ’ Government credibility has been severely tarnished , particularly with regard to perceived dedication to improved training . ’
21 But the family has no regrets about taking the case so far .
22 I do n't know er why we 're not more continually erm more on the case as far as our members of parliament are concerned because remember they 're there for our benefit and front page of the Daily Mirror this morning .
23 One of the major tenets of the mental models theory of text comprehension is that the model of the text so far provides ( part of ) the context for understanding the current sentence .
24 Over the past few years we have been working on such an account , and in this paper we focus on the implications of this account for a central tenet of the mental models approach : that the mental model of the text so far provides ( part of the context for the interpretation of the current sentence or clause .
25 In this paper we have outlined two lines of research that address the question of exactly how the mental model of the text so far provides ( part of ) the context for interpreting the current sentence .
26 For example , the superfield of Applied Science should adequately represent all the subfields listed above , but within the text so far obtained this superfield contains 6 computing texts , 3 engineering texts , 1 energy text , 1 transport text , and none on technology or communications .
27 Before leaving this interesting adjective behind , we may note that it introduces a minor discrepancy from a rather general tendency of qualification which has been gradually emerging by implication in the text so far .
28 Manager Andy Crawford , successfully carrying on the work instigated initially by Syd Millar three seasons ago , is delighted at the progress so far .
29 Now that you have had all four meetings with prospective purchasers I feel I should recap on the progress so far and set out how we move forward from here .
30 Despite a successful reduction of the budget deficit [ see p. 38020 for 1991 budget ] , the report cautioned that " much of the progress so far has resulted from buoyant economic activity rather than from structural reforms in the economy " and argued in favour of further deregulation of the economy .
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