Example sentences of "[adv] far [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 In use , the pack is held on to the tool by a single metal strap , but the pack is recessed so far into the machine that this was perfectly stable .
2 He did not doubt that she was a prisoner , for these were the Warden 's men who they had thought would not dare come so far into the forest .
3 African independence , when they thought of it at all , seemed an eventuality so far into the future as to possess no relevance to their working lives .
4 A rescue attempt had hitherto been so far at the back of his mind that , if some advanced speculations on the nature and shape of the many-dimensioned multiplexity of the universe were correct , it was right at the front ; but a magic sword was a valuable item …
5 This is by far the best evidence so far for the existence of a large amount of some sort of dark matter .
6 Many of the tips provided so far for the management of children have been relevant for adolescents .
7 The H registration year has n't been a good one so far for the car industry , but you have some successes .
8 Sweden is the latest country to suffer from criminals fiddling with mobile phones to re-direct bills — thousands of phones were stolen , altered and sold back to the market as ‘ no charge phones ’ : 10 people have been arrested so far for the crime , which came to light when some subscribers reported bills of $70,000 more than they were expecting ; police said that some of the men arrested were associated with the the Swedish state phone company Televerket and L M Ericsson Telefon AB , Reuter reports from Stockholm .
9 Well there 's the gate , he can only go so far with the gate anyway , so it wo n't really matter yeah yeah you ought to see all the pegs at the back of me fridge
10 In considering mentally disordered people 's needs , we have focused so far on the individual rather than on the family .
11 Thus the research so far on the origin of parish churches leads us to suspect that a lot of early churches disappeared in the reforms and rationalisations of the early Middle Ages .
12 The emphasis which has been placed so far on the curriculum is intentional .
13 Given my concentration so far on the possession/separation issue , and its relation to the circulation process , and given my earlier insistence that economic class relations at the level of possession/separation can not be conceived as the underlying ‘ essence ’ of social and political collectivities and movements , which demand analysis in their own right , I am not yet in a position to draw full ‘ political conclusions ’ ( the following chapters will take us some way further in this direction ) .
14 ‘ Drawn a blank so far on the child porn .
15 But the stress so far on the division of labour is somewhat one-sided .
16 In those days the prostate was so far below the standard of respectability that it could not even have been mentioned in the newspaper .
17 Let's say I believe that he 's said nothing to you so far about the part he 's hoping you 'll play … ’
18 The assumptions made so far about the input-output relations of the economy have been simplistic in the extreme .
19 He gripped the sides of the pulpit between fingers crooked as claws and leaned out so far over the congregation that he was in danger of falling out and landing on his head .
20 It was the 11th reported violent clash at the prison so far during the year .
21 Some students have been placed in difficulties by local authorities that have set a community charge that is so far beyond the reach of people that even the 20 per cent .
22 Maybe he was cheesed off meeting people so far along the ridge without explanation as to their start point .
23 About a foot below the outwale there was a pretty bad hole which he 'd never felt concerned him , it was so far above the waterline .
24 His main diversion was music , which ‘ did relieve his drooping spirits , compose his distracted thoughts and raised his weary soul so far above the earth , that it gave him an earnest of the joys of heaven ’ .
25 It seems rather strange to me that something which is patently strategic should come so far down the list of factors even er below satisfactory access for example .
26 Erm I see so I 'm not really will make sure that erm that we are kept in touch so that we are not so far down the track but they ca n't be reversed committee as a whole
27 MSP 's politics have been shoved so far to the fore ( presumably to mop up any stray prejudice to their musical influences ) their very real talent for balls-out rock'n'roll has been largely ignored .
28 Folly was beginning to wish she had never mentioned that she was seeing Luke , but her straightforward nature made it difficult to conceal something that was so far to the forefront of her mind .
29 In 1627 a settlement was made on Barbados , which had two additional attractions : it was uninhabited , so the dangers of warfare with the Caribs did not arise , and it was so far to the east of the island chain that it was even better protected by the trade winds than any of the other islands .
30 But one of the ironies of life in the border districts was that it also produced Poles who became more German the more nearly they were incorporated into the Polish state , and Poles and Jews whose political opinions were so far to the right that only their ethnic , religious or national identity stood between them and the Nazi Party .
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