Example sentences of "[noun] [noun sg] [verb] [adv] far " in BNC.
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| 1 | Managers at the Landing Gear factory have so far refused to confirm or deny the report that up to two hundred jobs are to go . |
| 2 | Translucent shapes undulated through the jungle , glimmering in the sunlight : the only life the Lucifer System had so far offered up for study . |
| 3 | The stock market has so far given the RJB shares the thumbs down . |
| 4 | All theoretical treatments of the quantised Hall effect proposed so far require there to be no dissipative scattering if they are to account for the values of h/Ne 2 at the plateaux . |
| 5 | The through service to London was interrupted on 10 and 11 September 1940 , by bomb damage outside Croydon , and a shuttle service was provided by Thornton Heath depôt running as far as Norbury Station . |
| 6 | It appears that X/Open 's ISV council has thus far been unwilling to admit OSF to its ranks — political reasons notwithstanding — because , X/Open president Geoff Morris says , that its members do n't feel happy about granting OSF an X/Open ticket for a mere fraction of the price that it was originally paying . |
| 7 | However , the effect of specific inhibition of platelet activating factor by a specific receptor antagonist has so far been evaluated in models of experimental colitis only . |
| 8 | An unpublished US government study of 16 Aids patients shows that bone marrow transplantation has so far failed as a treatment . |
| 9 | The Seychelles kestrel had so far eluded me , but I met an English birder while I was trying again to photograph waders in the harbour of Victoria , and he told me a pair had nested in one of the church towers in the town . |
| 10 | The Home Office said aS far as young offenders were concerned … the aim was to find constructive altermnatives to custody … |
| 11 | The company has applied for permission to drill two more holes in the nearby Lake District National Park , but this drilling permission has thus far not been granted . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Although the Peace Tax Campaign has so far eschewed the use of extra-constitutional forms of dissent , confining itself for the most part to orthodox expressions of protest such as parliamentary lobbying and legal action in the courts , the failure of conventional forms of political protest to influence the prevailing defence strategy/taxation policy could have important implications regarding the future choice of tactics to be used . |
| 15 | Reports said that while US preference for a higher ceiling of between 40 per cent and 50 per cent [ see p. 38211 ] had been favoured by Kuwait , none of the other members of the Security Council had so far expressed public support . |
| 16 | All hell broke loose , Mount Stewart was besieged by the media , and one Fleet Street paper went as far as accusing MacDonald of duplicity . |
| 17 | Only the phenyl derivative has so far been studied as a ligand . |
| 18 | About £35,000 of a £150,000 appeal has so far been raised . |
| 19 | Erm the Castle and Aldi Supermarket guess so far Cecil 's on from Plumtree hello . |
| 20 | The Advanced Courses Development Programme has so far involved two phases of pilot courses , each phase having represented a stage in the progression from the current Advanced Courses system to a system based on the principles in the Policy Paper . |
| 21 | After the 1987 hurricane , the Tree Council went as far as to say that ‘ unless positive encouragement is given to owners to restore these woods … they will revert to scrub and never recover . ’ |
| 22 | Commenting on more ghastly figures ( see opposite ) Philips Electronics NV chairman Jan Timmer said the Dutch multinational 's performance in 1992 's fourth quarter , which is normally the strongest of the year as people buy electronic toys for Christmas , was very disappointing , and that no let-up in price erosion had so far been seen for 1993 . |
| 23 | It is just as likely to have been a Turkish Cypriot farmer moving too far south . |
| 24 | Phillips has played in only four of Neath 's nine Heineken League matches so far this season but has been picked ahead of Andrew Thomas , who reacted by refusing to sit on the replacements ' bench . |
| 25 | The Education Officer of Matagalpa Prison went as far as to say that when systems of exploitation can be brought to an end , crime as a major social phenomenon will disappear . |
| 26 | The features of sign language interpreting so far described , and the possible registers available , suggest something rather different from the linguistic models of Seleskovitch ( 1978 ) and others . |
| 27 | One Columbia University student went as far as writing a paper on the novel and its author and was awarded a respectable grade . |
| 28 | Desmond Heap , in his 1955 presidential address to the ( then ) Town Planning Institute went so far as to declare that the preservation of Green belts was ‘ the very raison d'etre of town and country planning ’ . |
| 29 | The Lewisham Council went so far as to apply to the High Court for an Order of Mandamus requiring the Commissioner of Police to seek to have the march banned . |
| 30 | All the women in the conference planning group had so far been white , and we were only just beginning to respond to Black women 's demands that we examine our racism , and tackle it . |