Example sentences of "[noun] [vb -s] [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 figure recedes , the circle dims , the piano plays softly so far away …
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 However , this relationship has not so far been sufficiently investigated to ensure that a given design will be stable in fast forward flight .
7 Even in the new Latin America , it seems , the commitment to free trade goes only so far .
8 The Commission has not so far brought the matter to the European Court of Justice .
9 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 ) .
10 The government has not so far given ground on Mozambique , and has insisted that it is committed to keeping its troops in Cambodia .
11 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 .
12 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 .
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