Example sentences of "[noun] has [vb pp] [adv] far " in BNC.
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| 1 | How the Mini Master will be regarded by Britain 's Civil Aviation Authority remains to be seen , but the CAA has indicated so far that it will expect pilots flying the aircraft to be holders of a multi engine rating , which currently costs around £1,200 to obtain on a conventional twin aircraft . |
| 2 | ‘ The most a contestant has won so far is a small jar of face cream ’ , said Edna caringly . |
| 3 | ‘ Social imperialism ’ suggests that the main beneficiaries of this policy were British consumers , and indeed one writer has gone so far as to argue a direct link to the Attlee government 's social reforms : ‘ The nationalisations , medical provision and expansion of education so magnanimously legislated by the Labour Ministry were largely achieved because the Bank of England kept the Sterling Area show on the road . ' |
| 4 | Christopher Columbus did it with a smaller crew than Taylor has tried so far . |
| 5 | Moreover , the North American Securities Administration Association has gone so far as to accuse the South Pacific micro-states of Nauru , Vanuatu , Tonga and the Marshall and Northern Mariana Islands of being ‘ international centres of prostitute banking ’ . |
| 6 | When he speaks on social issues MPs from all sides listen , but in Birkenhead , Labour left-wingers , including some former supporters , believe his free thinking has gone too far . |
| 7 | But Copernican thinking has gone too far . |
| 8 | That 's as far as my thinking has got so far . ’ |
| 9 | Commentators are suggesting , however , that the leisure industry has come too far too fast and that the leisure bubble has burst . |
| 10 | Some countries such as Spain feel the deal has gone too far , but the EC is expected to buy them off . |
| 11 | As the years unfold , the penny will drop in the general council of the CBI , as much as on the commuter trains from Basildon , that the whole market-based experiment has gone as far as it can — and the new need is for a government and policies that actively manage the instability and short-termism of the British economy . |
| 12 | If the applicant has survived this far and avoided a pre-hearing assessment , the case will be listed for hearing . |
| 13 | When the boat has heeled too far it tries to turn up into the wind and a lot of rudder movement is needed to keep it straight . |
| 14 | Conran has gone so far as ending catwalk exhibitions totally in favour of presentation by video . |
| 15 | The DoH is sensitive to the charge that the Children Act has gone too far in favour of children at the expense of upholding the rights and responsibilities of parents and guardians . |
| 16 | The study of the distribution of exotic imported goods within England has extended as far as noting that there are two basic patterns to their distribution , apparently depending on their sources , and that particular areas or individual cemeteries have disproportionately high quantities of some of these goods . |
| 17 | In Jordan , where the authorities hope the experiment in democracy will become a model for other Arab states , King Hussein has opted so far to draw the fundamentalists into the government . |
| 18 | ‘ I think your imagination has gone too far . |
| 19 | Ghemawat ( 1985 ) argues that the debunking of the experience curve has gone too far . |
| 20 | The trouble today is that the student body has moved so far away from asserting its academic rights that it has become largely passive , simply accepting the fare put before it . |
| 21 | ‘ We have work to do and it is essential that there are no distractions , ’ says Coleman , ‘ I am happy the way our build-up has gone so far but the next ten days or so are obviously the most important in terms of morale and motivation . ’ |
| 22 | Possibly the pendulum has swung too far in that people have gone from feeling that somewhere in a marriage there should be room to accommodate their personal feelings , to believing that their feelings are everything . ’ |
| 23 | In his second novel , The Inheritors , Golding has stood so far back from modern historical progress as to imagine the supersession of innocent , hairy Neanderthalers by ‘ bone-face men ’ in a prehistoric age : they wear clothes or , as the primitive eye sees it , they step outside their skins . |
| 24 | Emphasis has rested so far on the public role of jade in furthering the harmonious working of Chinese society by cementing relations between the ruler , heaven and the several levels of the bureaucratic hierarchy by which the empire was administered . |
| 25 | Israel has gone too far this time . |
| 26 | Indeed , Professor Roskell has gone so far as to suggest that the nobility could not be relied upon to attend parliament in the 1350s and 1360s even when they were present in England , and that these parliaments amounted to little more than tax bargaining sessions between the king and the commons . |
| 27 | All the corporation has suggested so far is a vague road and landscaping scheme that would affect only part of the pub garden and car park . |
| 28 | On a recent visit to Brooks Brothers , we tried to buy two identical shirts in a style that the store has stocked as far back as we can remember . |
| 29 | The compression of the state pension down to income support levels has gone so far that it has superseded the income support level , so that every pensioner , as of right , should be on income support . |
| 30 | One former American Secretary of State has gone so far as to characterise the Armed Forces as an institution ‘ operating entirely outside Party control ’ . |