Example sentences of "so far [vb pp] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have so far limited our interpretation of " style " and " stylistics " to match the kind of activity in which we wish to engage : the study of language as used in literary texts , with the aim of relating it to its artistic functions . |
| 2 | The absence of a clear candidate was likely to result in a land torn by dispute and , because Arjun had not so far named anyone , it was to men like Burun that the others looked for indication of a preference . |
| 3 | Digging will start in the summer of 1993 , with the excavation of selected buildings , as well as the examination of those areas in which the survey has so far revealed nothing , but which may produce underlying Minoan levels which can be investigated in the future . |
| 4 | She was so far gone she had got seriously stupid . |
| 5 | But a bungled , unlawful business deal has so far cost them £5.3m and led to the sacking of all the BRDC 's 12 directors . |
| 6 | She had n't imagined that this woman could be at all assertive , but she was being exactly that now , and Alain had so far said nothing at all . |
| 7 | For months , British diplomats have been wondering what to do with this thoroughbred stallion , an official present to the Prime Minister which has so far caused him nothing but embarrassment . |
| 8 | In part it is nervousness , but mostly is youthful exuberance , an exuberance that has so far made his career and yet paradoxically also threatens it . |
| 9 | But while on the subject of confessing ignorance , I must also state that I have so far made it through life without witnessing or participating in an Orange Walk . |
| 10 | Commonwealth countries take the view that it is the limited sanctions so far applied which have done much to bring about the new climate represented by the de Klerk administration , and believe a turn of the screw would effect more change . |
| 11 | He liked his guests to give value for money ; this wordless young fellow had so far given none . |
| 12 | It is the only card he has left in a game which has so far seen her win every hand . |
| 13 | Some of those who did not possess a faith in God which was proof against all adversities now saw that the great hope of a relief force reaching them , which had so far buoyed them up , was an illusory one ; even if a relief now came , in many different ways it would be too late and not only because so many of the garrison were already dead ; India itself was now a different place ; the fiction of happy natives being led forward along the road to civilization could no longer be sustained . |
| 14 | Initial enquiries at the plant have so far uncovered nothing . |
| 15 | Of course , it had n't so far done anything of the kind , and he had to arrive at the best thing to do in the circumstances . |
| 16 | The deadline for lodging the appeal is midnight tonight but UEFA have so far heard nothing from the Georgian club . |
| 17 | What has so far prevented them from becoming assimilated to each other is not only the fact that in the field of psychotherapy , differing theories do not readily and happily intermix , but that each theory tends to take sides ( without this necessarily being apparent ) in the eternal dialogue between youth and age . |
| 18 | If you have not had a child , what factors have so far prevented you ? |
| 19 | But Mr Ashdown , who is demanding a full-scale coalition , has so far rejected anything that Labour has offered , threatening to vote against a Queen 's Speech that does not include a commitment to electoral reform ; and Mr Kinnock has said that he has made no overtures — not even played the ‘ opening chords ’ — which would lead to a post-election pact . |
| 20 | The quantum theory created then has proved adequate for all that has so far followed it . |
| 21 | ‘ Marriage will be the end of his talent , ’ Bonamy predicted , though I had not seen much talent in the poems Robin had so far shown me . |
| 22 | He has so far shown himself incapable of a knockout punch witness his feeble reply in the Commons yesterday to the onslaughts from his former Chancellor and from Labour leader John Smith . |
| 23 | Bath 's Ben Clarke has so far established himself as the pick of the British Lions touring squad in New Zealand |
| 24 | Heavy consumers of technology , most banks have so far used it more to automate existing ways of doing things than to invent entirely new ones . |
| 25 | His latest project ‘ The Duchess of Sutherland ’ , which is a copy of the full size engines and has so far taken him three years to build is just one of the engines which can be seen . |
| 26 | In the ease studies so far considered it has already been made clear that the particular study itself is , as it were , the product of a set of concerns in politics . |
| 27 | Hitachi was one of six Japanese companies invited to invest in Kaleida ( CI No 1,931 ) , and of the other five , only Toshiba Corp has so far stuck its head above the parapet with an agreement with Apple to license Kaleida technology and use it in jointly developed products ; others invited to join were Matsushita Electric Industrial Co , Sharp Corp , Sony Corp and NEC Corp . |
| 28 | Bruckner was 39 and in the process of shaking the dust off a provincial career that had so far brought him distinction only as an organist and as a craftsman-composer of the old school . |
| 29 | Six local churches including Q.P. have so far committed themselves to the vision and are represented on the Mark 2 board . ) |
| 30 | With the minor forms so far described it is possible to investigate causes by means of almost full-sized experiments , but the formation of dunes proper involves the usual sort of inferential argument based on field observation commonly employed by geomorphologists . |