Example sentences of "[verb] so far [vb pp] [pers pn] " 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 It is the only card he has left in a game which has so far seen her win every hand .
3 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 .
4 The quantum theory created then has proved adequate for all that has so far followed it .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 That 's what Mansell does — not merely racing , but striving for the supreme prize which has so far eluded him .
9 For the British driver , it would be just one more step towards the world title which has so far eluded him .
10 Is this what we have been waiting for all these years , the answer that has so far eluded us ?
11 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 . ’
12 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 .
13 Only a bull seladang , the giant wild ox of Asia , had so far eluded them .
14 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 .
15 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 .
16 ‘ 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 .
17 But while on the subject of confessing ignorance , I must also state that I have so far made it through life without witnessing or participating in an Orange Walk .
18 If you have not had a child , what factors have so far prevented you ?
19 Heavy consumers of technology , most banks have so far used it more to automate existing ways of doing things than to invent entirely new ones .
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