Example sentences of "have [vb pp] so far " in BNC.

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1 From the debate as it has developed so far , various things seem to me to be clear :
2 ‘ The most a contestant has won so far is a small jar of face cream ’ , said Edna caringly .
3 Much more of what Augusta has seen so far , though , and the Australians will be laying down challenges again to the United States and Europe .
4 Pearson , England 's former centre-forward , is impressed with what he has seen so far at Valley Parade .
5 The demand for another tv series has exceded the number of books Dexter has written so far , though he is writing another at the moment .
6 Below Tg , however , the viscosity has risen so far that rapid crystallization is not possible and the material remains in the disordered glassy state .
7 The trouble today is that the student body has moved so far away from asserting its academic rights that it has become largely passive , simply accepting the fare put before it .
8 Airtours is keen to expand , but as Mr Coe points out , it has expanded so far mainly by organic growth and would like to continue it that way .
9 And if Mr Mellor insists , as he has done so far , that the auction solution is not open to revision , let them ask him , kindly but firmly , if such crude competition is really the format to put on his Saturday screen the modern successors of Cantelli , Neveu and Lipatti .
10 The present UK Conservative government seems eager to remove controls even in cases where many people consider them beneficial , for equally political reasons ; but it has done so far more quickly in some areas than others .
11 But apart from some rhetoric about acting to protect human health , all it has done so far is commission a report from the Ministry of Agriculture , Fisheries and Food .
12 That 's as far as my thinking has got so far . ’
13 It will then " give up " and return what it has got so far .
14 He is going through a dry patch at the moment as he has won only on match in the five tournaments he has played so far this year but I am sure he will work his way back again , he has got it in him .
15 Emphasis has rested so far on the public role of jade in furthering the harmonious working of Chinese society by cementing relations between the ruler , heaven and the several levels of the bureaucratic hierarchy by which the empire was administered .
16 But there is also a more general competition and conflict among nation states , some aspects of which I discussed in Chapter 5 , that has proved so far impossible to overcome , or even to moderate substantially .
17 In Jordan , where the authorities hope the experiment in democracy will become a model for other Arab states , King Hussein has opted so far to draw the fundamentalists into the government .
18 This section has concentrated so far on metals , reflecting the interest in metal patinas , but other materials also develop distinctive surfaces over time and some work has been done both by fakers to replicate them and investigators to differentiate the fake from the genuine .
19 He is not at all tired , even though he has driven so far .
20 What has emerged so far is this .
21 And she has entrusted the musical Midases who have turned all she has touched so far to gold with the job of making her a new Garland .
22 How the Mini Master will be regarded by Britain 's Civil Aviation Authority remains to be seen , but the CAA has indicated so far that it will expect pilots flying the aircraft to be holders of a multi engine rating , which currently costs around £1,200 to obtain on a conventional twin aircraft .
23 It is the only thing that he has followed so far in the debate .
24 ‘ Social imperialism ’ suggests that the main beneficiaries of this policy were British consumers , and indeed one writer has gone so far as to argue a direct link to the Attlee government 's social reforms : ‘ The nationalisations , medical provision and expansion of education so magnanimously legislated by the Labour Ministry were largely achieved because the Bank of England kept the Sterling Area show on the road . '
25 Moreover , the North American Securities Administration Association has gone so far as to accuse the South Pacific micro-states of Nauru , Vanuatu , Tonga and the Marshall and Northern Mariana Islands of being ‘ international centres of prostitute banking ’ .
26 G. Kopcke ( Tzedakis and Hallager 1987 ) has gone so far as to suggest that the curious high ‘ rock ’ formation in the centre of the picture may actually represent the tsunami or tidal wave generated by the great Thera eruption of 1470 BC .
27 One former American Secretary of State has gone so far as to characterise the Armed Forces as an institution ‘ operating entirely outside Party control ’ .
28 Indeed , Professor Roskell has gone so far as to suggest that the nobility could not be relied upon to attend parliament in the 1350s and 1360s even when they were present in England , and that these parliaments amounted to little more than tax bargaining sessions between the king and the commons .
29 Charles Rycroft , an eminent contemporary British psychoanalyst , has gone so far as to reject entirely the Freudian theory of the origin and function of dreaming .
30 This country cost her too much ; indeed , she has gone so far as to refuse to discuss the topic .
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