Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [vb -s] [adv] far " in BNC.
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| 1 | The story goes so far as to suggest that Hewlett-Packard threatened to resign from OSF over the pace of development but changed its mind . |
| 2 | HOW 'S ABOUT FAT , THEN : The Duchess gets as far as raising a leg but then decides exercise is just too much effort and takes the rest of the sunbathing session lying down |
| 3 | All the same , the insurer has so far agreed to pay £8 million in compensation to investors , a significant pile of money even for a major company , and a nasty hit to take for one slip in its monitoring system . |
| 4 | An appeal fund set up after the tragedy has so far raised £149,664 in memory of James . |
| 5 | By comparing residence patterns in 1861 and 1881 and examining poor law administration , the research investigates how far the new harsh administration of the Poor Law increased reliance on family and kin for assistance . |
| 6 | Although some bizarre interchanges therefore seem to be real occurrences in these families , the research has so far been unable to convincingly demonstrate a causal link between such communication abnormalities and the development of schizophrenia in the child . |
| 7 | The club has so far played two games and is undefeated . |
| 8 | Erm and certainly I think I think in going to neighbourhood panels it was it was to serve a democratic process of tenants being able to panels local to their that area and I think in that sense erm it has been successful and certainly , I think as far as we were concerned er , it avoids the perhaps intimidating nature of , of tenants appearing in a large centre of the various panel which er I think was er , certainly one of the members wishes when we started on a neighbourhood basis but , yes it was our intention and , I would think that it 's quite reasonable to ask us to bring the report to the next meeting er with a better explanation of how the council works so far . |
| 9 | Nevertheless there has been little interest in exploring for Zechstein gas in the North Sea and the test results so far encountered have been very discouraging . |
| 10 | The law appears so far to have almost entirely failed to rise to the challenge of the vertical separation literature . |
| 11 | In fact , the Committee goes so far as to assert that business and industry have no distinctive educational needs , and is thereby able to collapse point 2 in its terms of reference ( " the needs of business , the professions and the public services " ) into point 1 ( " the requirements of a liberal education " ) . |
| 12 | Disappointingly , the committee has so far felt able to recommend only a tiny step towards establishing acceptable levels of medical staffing in the NHS . |
| 13 | The result of the battle seems rather far removed from the issues facing the world today . |
| 14 | This is more than a million million million times as long as the universe has so far existed . |
| 15 | The heir is insolvent , and the question arises how far the trust can be given effect . |
| 16 | Much of the focus has so far been on integration , instigated predominantly by non-Disabled people , as a mean for all sections of the community to be involved on an equal basis , in a way which does not differentiate between the intention of this approach is genuine , in practice it often transmutes into another form of exclusion and discrimination . |
| 17 | Nevertheless , the following sentence from a letter of 1814 defending The Excursion reveals how far we have travelled since 1798 . |
| 18 | Where the husband goes so far as to cause injury , there are available a number of offences against the person with which he may be charged , but the gravamen of the husband 's conduct is the injury he has caused not the sexual intercourse he has forced . ’ |
| 19 | The score indicates how far the ball bounces forward before it comes to a halt . |
| 20 | It is a lovely city , the war seems very far away , as if it can never reach me there . ’ |
| 21 | Shares rose sharply at the beginning of the year in anticipation of an economic rebound , but the recovery has so far been very sluggish . |
| 22 | An important minority of the population lives in far flung , sparsely populated areas such as the highlands and islands . |
| 23 | The feud has so far claimed five lives . |
| 24 | Their concern for protecting the environment goes that far . |
| 25 | The government has so far been equivocal about the resources to be made available , but it is significant that the Griffiths proposal for a specific grant has been rejected , except in the case of the mentally ill . |
| 26 | The private rented sector as you should be well aware , is in fact declining quite rapidly in this country and no measure that the government has so far taken has managed to rev reverse that trend . |
| 27 | ‘ The Government has so far concentrated on short-term actions and pension law reform . |
| 28 | The most-played tunes so far are Beat It by Michael Jackson , You 're No Good by Linda Ronstadt , and I Fought the Law and the Law Won by the Bobby Fuller Four . |
| 29 | Gosh the valley goes really far down there . |
| 30 | ‘ The road goes so far … ? ’ |