Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [vb pp] so far " in BNC.
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| 1 | One ARENA spokesman has even gone so far as to suggest that there are nine to ten women in the party for every man . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ? |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | He had certainly managed so far . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Meanwhile health campaigns have largely failed so far to change behaviour . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | No , I must say that things have now gone so far as to justify me in feeling considerable uneasiness about his continued absence . ’ |
| 17 | Some ingenious souls have even gone so far as to suggest that the correct attitude to fat , which makes sense in nutritional , agronomic and culinary terms is to aim in general at eating a low-fat diet , and at one in which most of the fat in the diet is polyunsaturated : but to ensure that the small amount of saturated fat that did creep in is as delectable as possible , which , of course , with slight deference to beef dripping , means butter . |
| 18 | Some dealers have even gone so far as to pass off their businesses as zoos ( see BBC WILDLIFE , November , p798 ) . |
| 19 | In fact , the work we have done together has always been very harmonious — although I imagine if we were in a sit-com at the same time we could get a bit waspish — ‘ She 's got more lines than me … but it 's never happened so far . |