Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] far [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For months , British diplomats have been wondering what to do with this thoroughbred stallion , an official present to the Prime Minister which has so far caused him nothing but embarrassment . |
| 2 | But Mr Ashdown , who is demanding a full-scale coalition , has so far rejected anything that Labour has offered , threatening to vote against a Queen 's Speech that does not include a commitment to electoral reform ; and Mr Kinnock has said that he has made no overtures — not even played the ‘ opening chords ’ — which would lead to a post-election pact . |
| 3 | It is the only card he has left in a game which has so far seen her win every hand . |
| 4 | What has so far prevented them from becoming assimilated to each other is not only the fact that in the field of psychotherapy , differing theories do not readily and happily intermix , but that each theory tends to take sides ( without this necessarily being apparent ) in the eternal dialogue between youth and age . |
| 5 | Digging will start in the summer of 1993 , with the excavation of selected buildings , as well as the examination of those areas in which the survey has so far revealed nothing , but which may produce underlying Minoan levels which can be investigated in the future . |
| 6 | In part it is nervousness , but mostly is youthful exuberance , an exuberance that has so far made his career and yet paradoxically also threatens it . |
| 7 | The quantum theory created then has proved adequate for all that has so far followed it . |
| 8 | But a bungled , unlawful business deal has so far cost them £5.3m and led to the sacking of all the BRDC 's 12 directors . |
| 9 | This is a distinctly unromantic sounding but buoyant group which has so far twirled its way round to records . |
| 10 | Continued pressure to improve the terms of the civil payment on account scheme has so far yielded nothing at all . |
| 11 | His latest project ‘ The Duchess of Sutherland ’ , which is a copy of the full size engines and has so far taken him three years to build is just one of the engines which can be seen . |
| 12 | But if he winds up running his film company the way he has so far run his restaurant , he may find himself forced to serve up more and more celluloid ham just to keep things afloat . |
| 13 | He has so far shown himself incapable of a knockout punch witness his feeble reply in the Commons yesterday to the onslaughts from his former Chancellor and from Labour leader John Smith . |
| 14 | Hitachi was one of six Japanese companies invited to invest in Kaleida ( CI No 1,931 ) , and of the other five , only Toshiba Corp has so far stuck its head above the parapet with an agreement with Apple to license Kaleida technology and use it in jointly developed products ; others invited to join were Matsushita Electric Industrial Co , Sharp Corp , Sony Corp and NEC Corp . |
| 15 | Bath 's Ben Clarke has so far established himself as the pick of the British Lions touring squad in New Zealand |
| 16 | This could be the year Nigel Mansell finally overcomes his great rival Ayrton Senna and clinches the world motor racing championship which has so far eluded him . |
| 17 | That 's what Mansell does — not merely racing , but striving for the supreme prize which has so far eluded him . |
| 18 | For the British driver , it would be just one more step towards the world title which has so far eluded him . |
| 19 | Is this what we have been waiting for all these years , the answer that has so far eluded us ? |
| 20 | They can only conclude that ‘ Either badgers waste energy with the continued digging or very large burrows confer an advantage that has so far eluded us . ’ |
| 21 | Oh please , thought Grainne , please let it be that , for I have come so far to find it . |
| 22 | All the critics mentioned so far kept their criticism within certain limits . |
| 23 | The cross-section data used so far gives us little indication about how many workers continue in employment long enough to recoup the wages that were deferred earlier in their career . |
| 24 | We were not gracious yesterday — especially as this child came so far to find us . |
| 25 | ( Remember Russell 's chicken ( Russell , 1959 , p. 35 ) , whose true beliefs about the regularity with which it had been fed so far led it into a false belief about the security of its future . ) |
| 26 | Looking back at the works of Marx and Engels so far examined we can see that these leave a fairly clear picture concerning some topics , and major uncertainties concerning others . |
| 27 | Perhaps they reasoned that even if he managed to slip clear of the ropes he would have so far to fall it would n't matter . |
| 28 | Apart from the orthodox account , all the theories examined so far have something in common . |
| 29 | Though you journey so far to see their ancient endeavours . |
| 30 | She 'd come this far to say her piece and say it she would , come hell or high water . |