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

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1 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 .
2 However , if the rattle slips down so far that it is no longer visible , the infant will at once lose interest and behave as if the rattle had also slipped out of existence .
3 The research carried out so far has established some useful ideas and models which could be more intensively investigated and has established guidelines for future clinical trials .
4 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 .
5 ft was then necessary to review the work carried out so far , which , due to the extensive coding exercise and sheer size of the database , was making it difficult to ‘ see the wood for the trees ’ .
6 Work carried out so far has concentrated on seeking residents ' views on the problems of the estate and discussion on ways of resolving them .
7 The figure recedes , the circle dims , the piano plays softly so far away …
8 If someone has taken out a PP which is contracted out of SERPS , the widow 's pension under SERPS or under the occupational pension scheme to which she belonged previously will be replaced by an annuity bought out of the fund of contributions built up so far .
9 Incompatible therefore though a Co-operative sector would be with the Webbs ' version of the fully Socialist economy , the incompatibility has not so far become obtrusive in the United Kingdom because Labour Governments , which incidentally have had the support of the Co-operative Party as the political arm of the Co-operative Consumer Movement , have carried western Socialist Empiricism to the point of settling for the mixed economy ; and any central planning has been indicative — and , some would say , ineffectual — rather than mandatory .
10 It is my impression that the Department of Transport has not so far been sympathetic to the potential plight of some of the preserved railways in Scotland .
11 All the calculations carried out so far have assumed that it is possible to allocate any number of records to a given address .
12 One week there had been fifty fridge doors outside his office , another week forty or fifty bicycle frames , although Robert had not so far caught sight of a single chain , tyre , wheel or handlebar .
13 However , this relationship has not so far been sufficiently investigated to ensure that a given design will be stable in fast forward flight .
14 Schizophrenia , or split personality , is the most common serious mental illness and studies carried out so far hint at a genetic link , although no susceptible genes have yet been identified .
15 In fact , the electoral effects of scare-stories about immigration and asylum may be one of the so-far unrecognised aspects of the campaign , partly because such stories have not so far featured prominently among the factors of mass-media coverage to which the Labour Party has attributed its own defeat .
16 efforts to introduce literacy have not so far examined the question as to when it is right for particular students to begin reading and writing
17 Even in the new Latin America , it seems , the commitment to free trade goes only so far .
18 The Commission has not so far brought the matter to the European Court of Justice .
19 To the people of his little island , two miles long and three-quarters of a mile wide , ‘ Isle of Muck ’ fetched a tailor from the mainland twice a year and a blacksmith from the Isle of Eigg ( Johnson has not so far reflected upon the name of the laird of Eigg ) .
20 There was the imminent council to think of , and the fact , of which everyone was aware , that Bishop Malduin had not so far arrived to confirm his allegiance as promised .
21 The government has not so far given ground on Mozambique , and has insisted that it is committed to keeping its troops in Cambodia .
22 The continued advertising and promotion of tobacco should be strenuously resisted , yet the government has not so far seemed inclined to upset the tobacco lobby .
23 Roman Haubenstock-Ramati ( b. 1919 ) used to be a prominent name in a certain music publisher 's catalogue , but his music has not so far achieved wide circulation , or extensive recording .
24 There have been just three winners for the stable to cheer home so far this season .
25 Perhaps few of the inhabitants went quite so far as the parents of Fly-Fornication Richardson of Waldron or Small-hope Biggs of Rye in their statements of religious principle , but a dominant number of the eastern rural and urban elite found their religious and political sympathies increasingly divorced from the fumbling attempts of the Stuarts to impose their image of the monarchy .
26 Dr Roger Nourish , head of the team of microbiologists within Britain 's Health and Safety Executive ( HSE ) , which inspects factories , says that ‘ even in microbially low-risk processes , like the processes carried out so far — which do not involve infections or toxic hazards — allergenic risks arising from workers ’ exposure to foreign proteins or polypeptides have to be considered ’ .
27 Speadsheets have not so far figured largely as a resource for history , but they could be used with certain types of documentary sources .
28 If sophisticated strategies such as nominalization have not so far been recognized as viable options in resolving the tension between syntax and communicative function , this does not imply that they are not viable — just that they have been largely overlooked .
29 Despite such findings of sub-cultural adaptation to unemployment , the conclusion of all the studies of youth unemployment carried out so far is that young people ultimately wanted real jobs and wanted the money and status that came with ‘ proper ’ jobs .
30 The British public had not so far been inclined to take the latest invasion threat very seriously and its chief effect had been to encourage feminism .
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