Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [adv] [adv] far " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Evangelical party will perhaps continue to exalt their hero as partially as parties always do — but the members of it will act thus only so far as they are possessed by party spirit , rather than by the pure spirit of the doctrines which they hold in common with their so-called Catholic opponents , whom adversaries style popish . |
| 2 | In fact , the Greek region of Macedonia is almost one hundred per cent ethnically Greek now , the Slavs having been progressively squeezed out earlier so far century . |
| 3 | He believes the government has generally down-graded people working in the public services sector over the last ten years , with university teachers having fared particularly badly as far as pay is concerned . |
| 4 | Now the spruce spar boom wanted to shrink and swell about twice as far as the plywood which was glued to it and this naturally gave rise to serious stresses near to where the two met along the glued joints ( Figure 3 ) . |
| 5 | How have we done so well so far ? |
| 6 | " You 've done all right so far , Ian , and I do n't see that we could do any better . |
| 7 | Colleagues I 'd just like to put one of er John 's themes and that is that for the next couple of days we 've got a hell of a lot of business to get through and er we 've done quite well so far but er I would certainly be looking where possible colleagues for formally seconding er , as often as possible , if not all the time and I really appreciate your er your assistance in that regard because we have a great deal of business to get through in the next two days . |
| 8 | ‘ I want some continuity in the squad , going down even as far as the schoolboy grade ’ . |
| 9 | It is also possible to use festoon or ruched blinds at this type of window , but they would only draw up satisfactorily as far as the level at the bottom of the arch . |
| 10 | ‘ We have played well there so far and were a bit unlucky not to beat Norway and Holland . ’ |
| 11 | And that 's what you 're getting here so as far as I 'm concerned . |
| 12 | ‘ I have n't been able to do too much so far . |
| 13 | Whilst most modern witch covens can be traced back only as far as the revival stimulated by Gerald Gardner and the repeal of the Witchcraft Acts in the 1950s , there still exist traditional covens which date back much further . |
| 14 | Foreign ownership goes back just as far , in the sense that individuals such as Waldorf Astor and Max Aitken ( Lord Beaverbrook ) used foreign capital to buy into the English press . |
| 15 | I understand she was found not all that far from her parents ' house ? |
| 16 | The sheet was pulled up only as far as his hip , so that backs of her fingers touched his bare back , warm and still slightly damp . |
| 17 | Well if that car in front has not pulled up quite so far this way , I would of got out a little more easily . |
| 18 | For the second verse at ‘ so high ’ the hands are clasped together and raised above the head , on ‘ so low ’ they are lowered to knee level and on ‘ so wide ’ they are stretched out sideways as far as possible . |
| 19 | The Manchester City striker has scored just once so far this season — so he has a major incentive to score against Arsenal in this televised tussle . |
| 20 | Bending riskily forward as far as she could , with her arm at full stretch from the end of the rope , Sheila at last managed to grasp his hand . |
| 21 | With the South American championship trophy on the sideboard and the side safely through to next summer 's World Cup finals , it would seem that the Lazaroni system has worked pretty well so far . |
| 22 | I badly needed more money , so the take-over could not come too quickly as far as I was concerned . |
| 23 | As we came to the fence Aldaniti stood off far too far away , pinged it , but came down much too steep . |
| 24 | ‘ We 've managed very well so far . ’ |