Example sentences of "so far [prep] [noun prp] " in BNC.

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1 They were pursued , some into the Till , where many drowned and some swam to safety — if it was indeed safety , so far into England — on the further side , some as far north as the Tweed and the border , thirteen miles away .
2 These have taken place so far at Ditchingham , Mirfield and Whitby .
3 Perhaps the most interesting feature of the experience so far for Britain is to recognise the care with which the health problems of minority populations have been investigated and to some extent acted on .
4 In only the second three set match so far for Bates , Norfolk 's Bailey , fully recovered from a knee operation which almost severed his career when ranked at 124 back in 1990 , produced the strongest challenge yet .
5 The fun-run has raised £30,000 so far for OXFAM 's work in Southern Africa .
6 IT was a case of so near and yet so far for Linfield at Windsor Park last night .
7 This summer , Richard Stemp enjoyed his most successful bowling season so far for Worcestershire , with several matchwinning performances such as this against Gloucestershire .
8 It 's not been the best of years so far for Jimmy White , who was dubbed the bridesmaid of snooker after losing his fourth world championship final in May .
9 Some magnificent results have come in so far with Badenoch and Strathspey being 71% , Nithsdale 99% and East Lothian 100% up on last year .
10 Have you all got notes so far on George ?
11 These attitudes were reflected in the arrangements for famine relief in Tsaritsyn guberniia , to which we will now turn , since our attention has been directed so far on Saratov and Samara gubernii to the north of it .
12 Young batsmen Mark Lathwell and Mark Ramprakash could get a game tomorrow with Somerset 's exciting 21-year old Lathwell capable of taking on Aussie spearhead Craig McDermott in a manner so far beyond Gooch and Alec Stewart .
13 RIGA ( Reuter ) — Latvia 's mass Popular Front movement yesterday approved an ambitious plan for independent statehood in the biggest challenge so far to Moscow from the restive Baltic republics .
14 The Gallup/BBC survey shows that Britons do see their future as part of Europe while remaining rightly sceptical about the benefits so far of EC membership .
15 From the knowledge I have acquired so far of Johnson , I can not imagine him forbearing to make comment , nor can I imagine Boswell not seeking advice and guidance .
16 The idea came vividly to mind during Fantastic voyage ( 15 March ) , by far the best so far of BBC2 's SF Film Festival series .
17 He sang ‘ Scotland the Brave ’ and then ‘ So Far from Islay ’ , he sang of exile and loss , of love of one 's country and separation from it .
18 A less favourable note was added by Lady Fanshawe , who declared that the Cornish were , ‘ … hospitable to their neighbours , but they are of a crafty and censorious nature , as most are so far from London ’ .
19 All I know for definite is he lives down in Armagh , not so far from Newry , in the hills .
20 The succession at the margin of the platform appears to be composed mainly of oolitic grainstones , although these have only been described so far from Poland ( Peryt et al. 1978 ) .
21 Henry Mansel the philosopher-theologian after all published in 1858 The Limits of Religious Thought arguing that we can know almost nothing positive about God ; this God is not so far from Tyndall 's inscrutable Power .
22 More recent imaging results from the SIGMA telescope aboard the GRANAT satellite show , however , that the variable component of the 511keV line emission originates from a source that lies 0.75° ( 105pc ) from Sgr A. The dynamical centre of the Galaxy can not lie so far from Sgr A , so the γ -ray line source can not mark the nucleus .
23 Judith O'Neill , So Far from Skye , Hamish Hamilton
24 ‘ Talisker is not so far from Merkadale , and it is the largest population centre in Minginish .
25 There was one from John and Thomasina and the children , but nothing so far from Bobby .
26 ‘ This man Siward : how can he hope to hold Lothian , so far from York and from Durham , with a strength such as yours massed to the north of him ?
27 So far from Eden !
28 Gray noted , also , that Hel 's kingdom was banished so far from Asgard , the home of the gods , that it took ODIN nine days and nights to reach it .
29 As a result , the walls built so far in Scotland have proved inadequate for the number of people using them .
30 The study , carried out by researchers led by Steve Wilcox , of Cardiff University , shows that council housing transfers to other bodies have been taking place in England on a much larger scale than has happened so far in Scotland .
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