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

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1 Primitive , that is pre-literate , societies of the present period also exhibit restrictions on the instincts , but have less physical security because technology has not developed so far .
2 The Welsh Health Planning Forum has developed differential targets along these lines for the NHS in Wales , but in general the rest of the United Kingdom has not progressed so far .
3 Our intimacy has not proceeded so far .
4 But I think it was , " it has n't happened so far , so why should it ? "
5 What has n't happened so far , though , is a DOS application of the Windows environment that really feels like Windows and the integration of sound into a graphics package .
6 One ARENA spokesman has even gone so far as to suggest that there are nine to ten women in the party for every man .
7 One such protagonist has recently gone so far as to claim that Aristotle 's Phantasmata — the mental images that are involved in most or all mental activities — are identical with the symbols on which computational procedures are carried out .
8 Just what was the object of Barbara 's terror that viewers had only seen so far as a suction cup visible through a circular lens cowl ?
9 The luxury she had only glimpsed so far was all a far cry from the fading Victorian splendour of St Margaret 's with its peeling paintwork and under-staffed , overworked departments .
10 However , even by the middle years of the nineteenth century an industrial city like Manchester had not expanded so far as to prevent its mill workers walking in the country on Sundays .
11 This was the most positive action he had yet taken in his conflicts with the king : even with Rufus he had not gone so far .
12 I had not walked so far for years .
13 It was the first time that the chubby presenter , the ravages of drink clear in the dark bags under his eyes , had ever gone so far and admitted in public his total dependence .
14 It was then that the Dwarves came to him , fed him , warmed him in their mansions and asked his purpose , for no mortal man had ever travelled so far into the mountains .
15 In the second half of the nineteenth century such sentiments had fostered the growth of a small but vigorous school of Siberian regionalist writers and political activists ( oblastniki ) , some of whom had even gone so far as to envisage the complete political separation of Siberia from Russia and the establishment of a new , independent Siberian republic .
16 by no means ‘ lightly advancing thro ’ her star-trimm 'd crowd' — he had even gone so far as to look up Lantor 's lines about Ianthe — but perhaps women could n't be expected always to live up to what poets wrote about them .
17 One bar had even gone so far as to put a few tables outside , and on impulse Zen settled down to enjoy the sunlight and watch the show on the Corso .
18 He had certainly managed so far .
19 Loyalty to him , Richard knew , meant that she had never complained so far to anyone but himself about this business of living , instead of in a nice house , in a boat in the middle of London .
20 One reason why we are determined not to have a Labour Government is that they might tip the balance in the Community towards a fortress Europe and against the forces of free trade which we have successfully orchestrated so far .
21 At present the authorities have not gone so far as this .
22 The courts have not gone so far as to give a cause of action in damages for the breach of such a promise , but they have refused to allow the party making it to act inconsistently with it .
23 There is only one equation we have not considered so far and that is eqn ( 4.3 ) , which will probably look more familiar in another form .
24 One aspect we have not mentioned so far is the matter of model trim .
25 Meanwhile health campaigns have largely failed so far to change behaviour .
26 But they have signally failed so far to build an intellectual constituency in wider circles of the kind that gave Thatcherism — which had little intellectual depth of its own — the basis on which to construct a new kind of politics .
27 It has had considerable benefits , it 's had one or two drawbacks and er I think the biggest lesson that we have probably learned so far from the Eurofighter programme , is that we have to be very careful when we make work sharing agreements in future , that er we do n't try to drive the work sharing requirement down to too low a level .
28 No , I must say that things have now gone so far as to justify me in feeling considerable uneasiness about his continued absence . ’
29 I mean , we have n't done so far but we , that 's what but , this is stuff we got about hundred
30 Those we have n't met so far are the macaroni penguin and the gentoo .
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