Example sentences of "so far [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The continued advertising and promotion of tobacco should be strenuously resisted , yet the government has not so far seemed inclined to upset the tobacco lobby . |
| 2 | The taskforce has so far charged 544 defendants and won 385 convictions . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Most Escherichia coli promoters studied so far form stable open complexes with σ 70 -RNA polymerase which have relatively long half-lives and , therefore , are resistant to a competitor challenge . |
| 5 | The Jade fund to buy equipment for the special care baby unit has so far raised three thousand pounds |
| 6 | It was unclear whether the restoration would be recognized as constitutionally valid by the USSR authorities by their giving the Crimea a seat on the Federation Council ( a recent spate of autonomous regions ' and districts ' unilaterally proclaiming themselves ASSRs , and indeed of ASSRs ' proclaiming themselves full republics , had so far gone unrecognized — see pp. 37664 ; 37788 ) . |
| 7 | And pleas from his predecessor for 50 more officers to fight crime have so far gone unanswered by the Home Office . |
| 8 | Assad did not want the civil war to continue , for if Lebanon suffered any more wounds some of its blood might seep into Syria , through those narrow grey wadis in the anti-Lebanon mountain range and down into the plateau beyond , perhaps even infecting Damascus , whose carefully balanced but Alawite-controlled metabolism had so far remained untouched by the epidemic on the other side of the border . |
| 9 | The pattern of ultrasonics at Rollright has so far remained elusive . |
| 10 | Richard , who had so far remained silent , was bitterly disappointed at being unable to send the message to their mother . |
| 11 | The relevance of such multiple sensory realities to conventional evolutionary theory has so far remained unconsidered . |
| 12 | Thijs Lijbregts , who took over from Rinus Michels after Holland won the European Championship , has the additional pressure of managing one of the fancied teams while his best player , Ruud Gullit , is struggling to recover from a knee injury that has so far necessitated four operations and is threatening his career . |
| 13 | The persuasion rests on the assumptions that the forms of consultation practised and of participation prompted by the best employers are a measure of industrial democracy , but not enough : that the representation of employees on company boards is necessary to establish complete industrial democracy ; that total industrial democracy , in this prescription , will so far improve industrial efficiency as to benefit materially the general interest ; and that the implicit loss or diminution of the rights of ownership should not be allowed to preclude the realisation of that benefit . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Pakistan and the United States would eventually have to accept direct talks with the PDPA , he said , adding that neither country had so far implemented any peace process . |
| 16 | He had already clearly laid down his view in his opening speech to the session , in which he recognised that perestroika had so far made little impact on the acute social and economic crisis . |
| 17 | While the diesel option has become popular among owners of off-roaders like the Discovery and the Mitsubishi Shogun , it has so far made little progress in the executive car class . |
| 18 | I wanted to continue my studies as a postgraduate at U.C.L. I was now interested in modern linguistic research , but knew very little about it , since linguistics had so far made little impact in the U.K. , and there was no teacher in the Department who could adequately supervise me in that area . |
| 19 | Meanwhile , at The Parks , Hampshire were bowled out for one hundred and sixty nine by Oxford University , who 've so far made twenty four without loss in reply . |
| 20 | I agree with all the right hon. and hon. Members who said — I think that almost all who have spoken so far made this point — that it is very important to give Czechoslovakia , Hungary and Poland the prospect of joining the Community at least by the end of the decade , and to give them every possible assistance in meeting the economic and political conditions for membership as soon as possible . |
| 21 | The club has so far played two games and is undefeated . |
| 22 | Britain has so far accepted 2,000 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | We have so far met several examples of what the reader would probably regard as a " function " , but we have as yet given no definition , formal or otherwise , of the concept . |
| 25 | Japanese money alone has so far created 4 1/2 thousand new jobs . |
| 26 | The answer I have so far given that it is from achieving effectively and efficiently , fundamentally important aims such as developing inventiveness , initiative , adaptability , intellectual curiosity , sensitivity , confidence , and so on — general transferable skills and attitudes which will equip our students for their future lives . |
| 27 | In between projects allowing such personal statements as this , of course , Jordan has also worked increasingly in Hollywood , where he 's so far seen High Spirits cut to shreds and We 're No Angels ignored . |
| 28 | The DTI has so far prosecuted 15 insider dealing cases involving 21 people since 1981 in which eight have resulted in not guilty verdicts . |
| 29 | While advances in information technology have so far done little to change the telephone itself — give or take a few microchips and memories — it 's easy to see that IT has had a dramatic affect on the underlying telecoms infrastructure , and the way we use it . |
| 30 | Advances in information technology have so far done little to change the telephone itself , but IT has had a dramatic affect on the underlying telecoms infrastructure , and the way we use it |