Example sentences of "so far [verb] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 At this stage it is so far extended as to receive a supply of sand from the original barchan even during the prevailing wind , X. Thus it will continue to grow both during the prevailing wind , X , and the strong wind , Y , with slip faces developed on the side away from the strong wind .
2 She was so far gone that Joey had to help her walk across the field to where he had parked .
3 The senator had just told me how difficult it was to extract any sense from his son , yet apparently Rickie was not so far gone as the senator had suggested .
4 I hope that , given the work done so far to design and cost the scheme , you can have tenders to hand by then on the basis that construction would begin on site very soon after a decision at that meeting .
5 All the models of passive rifting discussed so far assume that rifting is more or less a symmetric process ; that is , we would expect the opposing passive margins formed through continental break-up to have a similar structure and morphology because they have experienced a similar tectonic history .
6 We have so far assumed that the micro-instructions are held in a read-only control store , although we have considered the possibility of interchangeable plug-in control stores .
7 We have so far assumed that it is a word form associated with a single sense , and that a difference of word form entails a difference of lexical unit .
8 His best season so far came when he rode 28 winners , and with 22 to his credit already this term , he is on course to better that total .
9 Amiss thought of the indignities he had so far endured and surmounted ; this was a mere pin-prick .
10 enable your opponent to abandon a commitment by : describing all the concessions you have made so far suggesting that the circumstances have changed blaming some other party or situation for the present position , such as the government , another union , the economy , the personnel department suggesting that somehow there has been a misunderstanding referring the whole matter to another individual or group .
11 The two component parts of Owen 's productive classes had been placed on the opposite sides of a divide ; and their separation into ‘ them and us ’ was now so far completed as to have become irreversible .
12 August Weismann was utterly opposed to Lamarckism and Weismann 's opinions so far prevailed that A. D. Darbishire in his authoritative Breeding and the Mendelian Discovery ( London , 1911 ) put the matter thus .
13 The private group , which insures invoices and financing arrangements , recorded 1,220 falures in the first half of this year , but indications so far show that at least 2,000 more failures will be recorded by the end of the year .
14 The greenbelts have so far ensured that towns and cities do not sprawl into one another .
15 ‘ Within these criteria I have so far ensured that buildings have not suffered closure , but in the future this may not be possible owing to the shrinking budget , ’ said Mr Eyton Jones .
16 No wins so far mean that Amthaal slips in the race on 7st 12lb and he showed plenty of promise at Chester last week — racing for the first time in five months .
17 These are the largest movements so far noted and in some years fewer than 100 birds have been involved .
18 The results presented so far imply that the information acquired during non-reinforced exposure to a stimulus , like that acquired as a consequence of other conditioning procedures , requires the presence of appropriate contextual cues if it is to be fully retrieved .
19 Most of the examples discussed so far imply that transfers of money are gifts rather than loans , although the distinction between these two is not always clear .
20 So far fears that West Germany will be too distracted by the rebuilding of East Germany to continue the building of the European Community have been exaggerated .
21 Genette 's discussion of Proust is so far reaching that his book can be regarded as much as a reading of A la recherche as a contribution to narrative theory , and to this extent it represents a challenge to the generic distinctions normally made in structuralist thinking between poetics and criticism .
22 By institutionalising conflict , party politics provides the means by which the accumulated potential of passionate conviction may be so far discharged as to avoid its most damaging manifestations : where the resources available to the forces for and against change are evenly balanced , civil war ; where they are greater for those against change , repression ; and where they are greater for those for change , revolution .
23 Research on the development of various types of psychiatric disorder has so far suggested that close relationships tend to play the most crucial role in increasing or decreasing vulnerability .
24 In the streets , vehicles clattered along on tyreless wheels , with the day not so far of– when even at the front the airforce would be forced to encase plane wheels in wooden clogs when being wheeled from the hangar , just to save precious rubber .
25 The majority of these were in Peru where 1,130 had so far died and 150,929 people were infected .
26 Certainly if they are so far changed as Gillespie suggests , I do n't have a problem with it .
27 It must be described not with the fierce barely pronounceable scientific tags so far used but with a simple name that describes both its function and general make-up with sufficient clarity to distinguish it from anything else .
28 Economic reform has so far meant that Poles can gaze in wonderment at now well-stocked meat stalls they have no money to buy from .
29 This is proved by a letter from one Mr. Wildhagen to Sir William le Fleming and dated the 19 October 1721 : " hellip ; your honr know it is impossible for the men to work att your Fells of Conistone in the winter season for long as their houses are unbuilt , they haveing so far to come and go to thir lodgings …
30 The results so far suggest that although meters are expensive to install they do lead to a drop in consumption .
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