Example sentences of "far [vb pp] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Sunken featured building ’ is a cumbersome and inelegant term adopted for relatively small structures erected over a sub-rectangular pit dug in the ground , ranging in size from 3 × 2 m up to the largest so far excavated at Upton ( Northamptonshire ) which measured 9.1 × 5.5 m ( Jackson et al . |
| 2 | She had so far relented towards Betty that she did not wish to see her disappointed . |
| 3 | With the kind of support so far received from SOED and SRC , the indications are that the learning and teaching of modern languages will become increasingly effective — especially for those children in need of support . |
| 4 | And if you 're still mired in sentimentality , look at it this way : the admission fees so far received from visitors to the carp pond have already enabled the Boy Scouts to build and maintain several church halls in the area . |
| 5 | Providing he retains control ( which he has so far succeeded in doing ) , he can play the media and not be affected by the media 's idiosyncrasy . |
| 6 | We have so far looked at divisions of income and wealth . |
| 7 | The 200-mile event is the largest so far organised by UK Women 's Cycle Racing Association . |
| 8 | Only 10,000 of the necessary terminals are so far installed in shops , though the target is 20,000 by the New Year and 100,000 by the end of next year . |
| 9 | In another version of this theme family law stands accused of having so far departed from principle and precedent as to be arbitrary , thereby losing its claim to guide conduct . |
| 10 | Of the part-time tutors , about a quarter were local schoolmasters , and there were also a number of parish clergy , local government officers and retired professional people ; only two of those so far booked for courses were women , although when the programme was finalised there were three . |
| 11 | The main findings to date are : 923 destinations questionnaires were sent to the 55 courses so far included in analysis : 624 were returned completed by students , giving a preliminary response rate of 68 per cent ; |
| 12 | This is alarming , except by African standards : India 's growth rate of 2.22% a year is far exceeded by Africa 's 3.2% . |
| 13 | What I had so far seen of Binbrook held no charms for me — it was bare , isolated , and I did n't really want to seek out yet another Met Office with another set of people to get to know , now that the war was over , and there was no reason that I could see for us to continue plotting charts and reading instruments . |
| 14 | To some extent , all that we have so far said about multimedia development is really a description of multimedia databases . |
| 15 | The Northern Ireland Act 1982 provides for the existing Assembly ( which lacks both legislative and executive powers ) to make proposals for the transfers to the Assembly of legislative and executive powers but such proposals must be such as to be ‘ likely to command widespread acceptance throughout the community ’ and although attempts are currently under way to evolve such proposals , they have not so far met with success . |
| 16 | that this conference congratulates our Bolshevik comrades of Russia on their splendid efforts to bring about a general peace , and their unflinching opposition to the brigands of international capital , though we deplore the fact that their efforts to stir the workers of all the belligerents to revolutionary action has not so far met with success , yet we promise to do all in our power to awaken the proletariat of this country to class consciousness so that a speedy end may overtake the tyranny of capital . |
| 17 | Among the publishers that have so far acted as hosts are OUP and Pinter Publishers . |
| 18 | He did n't feel this so strongly when a corpse was far advanced in decay . |
| 19 | She was already far advanced in pregnancy , and soon fell gravely ill . |
| 20 | The Sri Lankan economy , shrinking in real terms prior to 1990 ( with 2 per cent nominal growth in 1989 far outstripped by inflation ) , recorded 6 per cent growth in 1990 , with similar rates persisting into 1991 , despite exaggerated initial fears of damaging repercussions from the Gulf crisis . |
| 21 | Little work has so far focused on plant pathogens , but it is likely that this will ultimately develop as another component of integrated pest-management strategies . |
| 22 | All the house buildings thus far found at Cosmeston are single-room dwellings , but some of the other buildings had two rooms and probably also had lofts . |
| 23 | The large early building dates to the First , or Old , Temple period and is the best-preserved building of that age so far found in Crete . |
| 24 | From Aisgill Summit , the railway , the road and the River Eden go hand in hand down Mallerstang , forced into close company by the impending slopes , and almost at once there appears on the right the magnificent spectacle of Hellgill Force where the infant Eden , thus far known as Hell Gill Beck , leaps in a waterfall of 60 feet over a limestone cliff and comes to maturity as the River Eden . |
| 25 | The oldest artistic castings so far known in Nigeria were excavated around the beginning of 1960 , on behalf of the Nigerian Department of Antiquities , by Thurstan Shaw at Igbo Ukwu in the south-east . |
| 26 | A senior World Health Organisation envoy , Sir Donald Acheson , said in Zagreb that the situation in Srebrenica was ‘ a horror at least one degree worse than anything so far experienced in Bosnia ’ . |
| 27 | Both Hammerschmidt and Dedekind , and indeed Heinrich Albert , were far surpassed in variety and creative power by a young pupil of Samuel Scheidt , Adam Krieger ( 1634–66 ) who published in his lifetime little more than a collection of fifty Arien for one to three voices with string ritornelli ( Leipzig , 1657 ) , though posthumous Neue Arien appeared in 1667 ( augmented in 1676 ) . |
| 28 | But in this field of the Lutheran hymn-motet Hassler was far surpassed in bulk and variety , if not in artistic achievement , by Michael Praetorius . |
| 29 | But in this , which he achieved by bold leaps and chromaticisms of melody and harmony , he was far surpassed by Saracini and Belli ( neither of whom composed polyphonic madrigals ) whose shock effects are comparable with Gesualdo 's of the same period ( see p. 267 ) , as in this passage from Belli 's ‘ Ardo ma non ardi ’ from his Libro dell' arie a I e 2 V. per sonarsi con il chitarrone ( Florence , 1616 ) : or the opening of Saracini 's ‘ Tu parti ’ from his sixth book of Musiche ( Venice , 1624 ) . |
| 30 | Painting the town ‘ green ’ is the aim of the Forest of Belfast project , which has so far involved over people , alongside local artists , to paint the community murals . |