Example sentences of "[conj] [vb -s] [vb pp] [adv] far " in BNC.
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1 | The project that has gone quite far has had every chance of success but has failed and therefore has demonstrated its inadequacy . |
2 | a new consciousness ( that ) is arising out of a morass of a declining society that has bent too far towards rationalism , towards technology , and toward the acquisition of power through unbridled competition . |
3 | Even if progress is slower than expected , and it may not be , nothing that has happened so far gainsays General Colin Powell 's claim after six days of fighting that the allies , unopposed in the air , are systematically dismantling Saddam Hussein 's ability to wage war , and doing so at remarkably small cost to themselves . |
4 | The study , carried out by researchers led by Steve Wilcox , of Cardiff University , shows that council housing transfers to other bodies have been taking place in England on a much larger scale than has happened so far in Scotland . |
5 | If you generally want the views of the public it is no good trying to false those views through a straight jacket of your own to make it what you think there views should be unless of course they go right over the top in which they I do n't think that 's happened so far . . |
6 | Er , I 'm in the view , that this er , Environment Department is at the moment , is doing nothing at all , anything that 's happened so far . |
7 | While that movement has nowhere been wholly completed and has gone less far in some countries than in others , there is no western nation where its effects can not be seen . |
8 | The plume of smoke from these fires now covers about 15,000 square kilometres ( 5,800 square miles ) and has drifted as far as Iran . |
9 | At least it survived the sea water during the landing and has come this far . |