Example sentences of "[conj] [noun sg] [verb] [adv] far " in BNC.

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1 He had already clearly laid down his view in his opening speech to the session , in which he recognised that perestroika had so far made little impact on the acute social and economic crisis .
2 Directly across the channel was another , bigger bay , a long curving stretch of lovely white sand , with above it a sweep of green turf and bracken rising as far as the dark circle of the broch .
3 This is by far the biggest task Miss Cassan , 26 , has yet tackled , but she has shown both ability and determination to get this far .
4 For them freedom and self-reliance seem very far away .
5 Nonetheless , the limits of the state 's autonomy would seem to be very wide , and Block goes so far as to postulate a ‘ tipping mechanism ’ which could allow the state to take a social formation away from the capitalist mode of production .
6 It was eight days since they had last lain on the bed together , and sex seemed as far away now as then .
7 Since March the dogs have competed in a mixture of open and championship shows as far afield as Leeds , Doncaster and Stafford and the occasional show close to home .
8 ‘ I hope that the energy and drive displayed so far by this member , is only a taste of what is to come .
9 Up to the mid-1980s , there was a sharp distinction between most time and sight accounts as far as personal customers were concerned ( i.e. at the retail level ) : time accounts paid interest whereas sight accounts did not .
10 I 've spent a lot of time and effort getting this far .
11 Families of genes with multiple copies are numerous in all animals and plant studied so far .
12 But analysis has so far been largely entrapped by the particular form of Marxism with which cultural theory has adopted .
13 For Marx , the growth of industry promised wealth and abundance for all , but because industry had so far developed in a capitalistic way , the new-found wealth was monopolised by one class , while the mass of the working people were made poorer , not richer , by the advances in production .
14 I wanted to continue my studies as a postgraduate at U.C.L. I was now interested in modern linguistic research , but knew very little about it , since linguistics had so far made little impact in the U.K. , and there was no teacher in the Department who could adequately supervise me in that area .
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