Example sentences of "so far [conj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was the worst raid so far but Maureen who had not yet returned to driving was with her mother in the shelter and Anne , who finished work at ten o'clock , had reached home , dodging from shelter to shelter . |
| 2 | Only in small things so far but Dexter was sure , thinking back to the taut image of the man sitting on his sofa the previous night , that he was lying about bigger things as well . |
| 3 | the numbers , unc not in general constant under transformation ; but if the iterations have proceeded so far that I is in the quasi-triangular form , the trace and determinant of ( 3 ) are invariant , so that the complex roots are fixed . |
| 4 | Eventually they ran so far that mines were sited as much as 55m/60yds behind the first German line ; the longest , at Kruisstraat , ran for some 658m/720yds . |
| 5 | By March this year the price of sorghum , wheat and maize in local markets had been depressed so far that farmers were complaining . |
| 6 | I beat the school 's fastest runner in the 100 metres sprint , breaking the finishing tape just before the other runners manage to leave their starting blocks ; I smash the school long jump record by 15 metres ( give or take a metre ) and I hurl the discus so far that Miss Harrison , the teacher in charge of the event , has to get her battered Mini from the car park to retrieve the discus for the next competitor ( who manages a measly 25cm ) . |
| 7 | This is the clearest evidence so far that Mr Gorbachev is willing to change his government 's plans in order to share authority with the federation council — the first step towards wider talks . |
| 8 | The observer 's readiness to modify is admirably honest ( Mr Palomar is a nice man ) and ultimately exhausting : the process of adjustment can go only so far before atrophy threatens . |
| 9 | But they came the closest to looking like husband and wife so far when Charles handed Diana his pen after signing the visitors ' book at an Anglican Cathedral . |
| 10 | The churchyard had emptied , the wedding-carriages had rolled away , taking their fragile gaiety with them to another world so far as Cara was concerned . |
| 11 | It is now well recognized that , in so far as survival in the twentieth century is concerned , men rather than women constitute the weaker sex . |
| 12 | Still , to some extent , every modern economy , at least so far as ownership of some means of production or municipal enterprises or financial institutions are concerned , is a mixed economy . |
| 13 | Whatever the rights and wrongs of the matter , the authorities required from me a birth certificate from Štanjel , a certificate of Italian citizenship , a certificate from a bishop declaring that I was stato libero so far as marriage was concerned , and goodness knows what else . |
| 14 | In so far as differences in social position , such as class and gender , lead to different perspectives , that which is evoked by the objects in society will also be different . |
| 15 | The publication of a statement of compliance with the code , reviewed by the auditors so far as compliance can be objectively verified , is to be made a listing requirement by the Stock Exchange . |
| 16 | It seems to me that the same reasoning can be applied in this case : in so far as compliance with the rules of the E.E.C . |
| 17 | Having regard to the fact that Parliament has not abolished the privilege against self-incrimination Mr. Tully would be entitled to rely on that privilege if but only if and so far as compliance with the order of Buckley J. would provide evidence against him in a criminal trial . |
| 18 | The order was not one for the recovery or preservation of trust property but called for information and for copies of the defendants ' documents which , so far as compliance might incriminate them , the defendants were entitled to disregard . |
| 19 | In appearance everything had been altered since then , and — so far as looks went — much for the better , but nearly everything he cared about most was enshrined in these earliest recollections . |
| 20 | It is in Darién , however — at least so far as Panama 's administrators are concerned . |
| 21 | It was easy , however , to discount this evidence at a time when opinion polls were in their infancy , at least so far as credibility was concerned , and when it was universally thought that support would return to Churchill as soon as his formidable oratorical skills were thrown in on one side of the party contest . |
| 22 | Mrs Kelleher , Willie 's mother , was keeper of the gate and lived in its lodge — so far as Nicandra knew Silly-Willie had no father . |
| 23 | So far as Government Bills are concerned , it is no exaggeration to say that the substantial task of legislating will have been largely discharged before the Bill is even read a first time in the House in which it is introduced ( Bills may normally be introduced in either House , thence proceeding to the other ) . |
| 24 | But over and above that , most Americans in the late eighteenth century believed that , in so far as government had any impact on their lives , it would be local government , it would be the government of their state and not the remote government in Washington which most people in the eighteenth century had never visited or knew anything about erm or li knew little of what it did . |
| 25 | Septimus Coffin could call on forty years of experience , and in so far as Latin could be made entertaining , he made it so . |
| 26 | I argue that race may be a factor in the puzzle but only in so far as blacks feel their belonging to a specific race may affect their futures . |
| 27 | So far as futures dealing is concerned , the key exclusion is that for market counterparties , although investors in corporate finance transactions can also be excluded ( see page 33 below ) and trust beneficiaries are in any event not customers ( see page 34 below ) . |
| 28 | So far as Gassendi and ( as we shall see ) Locke were concerned this objection is misplaced for , having a modest and moral view of our proper concerns , they retain an element of scepticism about man 's ability to know . |
| 29 | In so far as progress towards meritocracy was slow involving a gentle democratisation , as Holmes had argued — this was correct , but another factor must lie in the unmeritocratic aspirations of the local authorities , who administered the educational change . |
| 30 | She was next in line to Lily , five years older than the girl who had come to Riverstown and had the whole world in her pocket , so far as Bernadette could see . |