Example sentences of "[noun] [noun prp] [verb] [adv] far " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only wingers Rory Underwood and Simon Halliday went so far as to deliver confirmation of their departures from the international scene after the 24–0 win against Wales at Twickenham on Saturday . |
| 2 | Cos South Yorkshire comes so far do down Doncaster Road , do n't it ? |
| 3 | Archbishop Fisher went so far as to tell him that he was a possible future Archbishop of Canterbury . |
| 4 | Archbishop Fisher went so far as to write a very tough letter to the editor in defence of Ramsey . |
| 5 | This wary goodwill could evaporate if President Hussein goes too far in avenging himself on Syria , his old rival , for taking Iran 's side during the war . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . |
| 7 | Failure to do so was punished by being forced to wear the hated beret for a whole day in school — for lessons , lunch , everything , a badge of shame Sally had so far managed to avoid . |
| 8 | On two occasions Shah Jehan went so far as to declare Dara his desired successor , while adding that the matter rested in the hands of Allah . |
| 9 | The basic issue , which Mr Fallon has so far managed to avoid totally in discussing this matter , yet which has made the Catholic community and the county council so anxious and so frustrated , is whether this Government accepts that places in Catholic schools should be provided for Catholic pupils . |
| 10 | Ben Lawers looks very far away from here , possibly because it is in fact very far away from here , but the walking on this lofty green ridge is so agreeable that the distance still to cover becomes an irrelevance . |
| 11 | Mrs Lamport has so far had 26 rejection slips for her book . |
| 12 | Mrs Cranbrook unbent so far as to show approval . |
| 13 | Back in 1933 work was begun on a racer for the 1934 MacRobertson race from London to Melbourne and Jacquelin Cochran got as far as Bucharest before damaging it in a landing accident . |
| 14 | Mrs Weber has so far undergone 200 hours of questioning , and is admitting nothing . |
| 15 | Kip Bertram went so far as to describe the letter as ‘ venomous ’ , and Norman Smith , managing director of Total Book Distribution , said it was ‘ insulting and naive ’ . |
| 16 | It may be unfortunate in the unity talks between the two opposing factions that Ebrahim Patel has thus far chosen to make what many would consider to be totally unrealistic demands for his 93-year-old SA Rugby Union . |
| 17 | He said Wirral Deewatch had so far collected 3,100 signatures in Heswall and West Kirby , and hoped to collect more this weekend . |
| 18 | John Maynard Smith went so far as to submit the super-forgiving Tit for Two Tats . |
| 19 | West Germany has so far denied , although with a detectable degree of ambiguity , that any deal was made , preferring to point to the humanitarian reasons for allowing an evacuation of the embassy , and the pressure supposedly exerted on East Germany by the Soviet Union to bring the occupation to a speedy end . |
| 20 | Most Southern Hemisphere SNRs discovered so far have been identified using several Molonglo Cross ( 408MHz ) surveys , yet the galactic plane map for γbγ3° shows only faint emission from the region of 2CG342–02 . |
| 21 | Peter Robinson went so far as to say that until late 1974 ‘ there was no party ’ . |
| 22 | Some favour legislation , Steve Scrutton going so far as to argue that the general term ‘ age ’ should never be used in legislation as a shorthand term to denote frailty or dependence . |
| 23 | Bath 's Ben Clarke has so far established himself as the pick of the British Lions touring squad in New Zealand |
| 24 | The Syrian Information Minister , Mr Mohammed Salman , said : ‘ The only reason Syria has so far discounted the military option to end Gen Aoun 's rebellion is its desire to avert huge losses among civilians in the eastern sector of Beirut . |
| 25 | However , my enjoyment in witnessing this rejuvenated Athletico is spoilt by the fact that Terry Wade has so far persisted in wearing white shorts whilst the rest of his team mates wear the customary black . |
| 26 | Certainly in recent years Pound 's interest in mystery-cults has been more than antiquarian ; in ‘ was Erigena ours ? ’ he asks whether the philosopher Scotus Erigena was one of the Eleusinian brotherhood , and ‘ ours ’ can be given full weight — Noel Stock goes so far as to claim ( op. cit. p.22 ) that some of the obscurity of these later Cantos is deliberate and arcane — ‘ he writes about them as an initiate in words that are both ‘ published and not published ’ … ’ . |
| 27 | New York has so far ignored Tokyo 's woes . |
| 28 | In one of her baffling letters Herta goes so far as to question the legality of the work we are doing here . |
| 29 | The film capital is a huge sprawling city which seems to stretch indefinitely in all directions ; they even said that the outskirts of Los Angeles reached as far as San Francisco ! |