Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] far [vb pp] [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 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Bath 's Ben Clarke has so far established himself as the pick of the British Lions touring squad in New Zealand |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | That 's what Mansell does — not merely racing , but striving for the supreme prize which has so far eluded him . |
| 17 | For the British driver , it would be just one more step towards the world title which has so far eluded him . |
| 18 | Is this what we have been waiting for all these years , the answer that has so far eluded us ? |
| 19 | 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 . ’ |
| 20 | She had n't imagined that this woman could be at all assertive , but she was being exactly that now , and Alain had so far said nothing at all . |
| 21 | He liked his guests to give value for money ; this wordless young fellow had so far given none . |
| 22 | Some of those who did not possess a faith in God which was proof against all adversities now saw that the great hope of a relief force reaching them , which had so far buoyed them up , was an illusory one ; even if a relief now came , in many different ways it would be too late and not only because so many of the garrison were already dead ; India itself was now a different place ; the fiction of happy natives being led forward along the road to civilization could no longer be sustained . |
| 23 | Only a bull seladang , the giant wild ox of Asia , had so far eluded them . |
| 24 | The Seychelles kestrel had so far eluded me , but I met an English birder while I was trying again to photograph waders in the harbour of Victoria , and he told me a pair had nested in one of the church towers in the town . |
| 25 | Here , gathered within its walls , were the enemies who had so far eluded his grasp : Count William of Angoulême and Vulgrin , Aimar of Limoges , the Viscount of Ventadour and the lord of Chabanais . |
| 26 | Bruckner was 39 and in the process of shaking the dust off a provincial career that had so far brought him distinction only as an organist and as a craftsman-composer of the old school . |
| 27 | ‘ Marriage will be the end of his talent , ’ Bonamy predicted , though I had not seen much talent in the poems Robin had so far shown me . |
| 28 | ‘ Alas that my lord of Gloucester had so far forgotten his duty ! ’ |
| 29 | On Aug. 16 Pérez de Cuéllar said that 40 countries had thus far notified him of sanctions measures , as they were required to do by Aug. 24 , and on Aug. 28 the committee on compliance heard that well over half of all UN member countries were committed to the embargo . |
| 30 | The deadline for lodging the appeal is midnight tonight but UEFA have so far heard nothing from the Georgian club . |