Example sentences of "far [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Mr McEwan said police had so far been unable to trace any members of the missing girl 's family still living in the Coatbridge area . |
| 32 | And what we have found that is the county , Harrogate certainly and ourselves from direct experience this last two years , is that one of the features , we have an attractive county to such inward investors , its its environment , its people , its setting , its air and everything else is good , but one of the features that we have so far been unable to offer is a planning framework which means that the marketing authority can deliver , guarantee delivery of the planning consent that would make it happen . |
| 33 | Now there is more to this passage than either the story that it heralds , poignant and memorable though that is , or the condescending tone of the last sentence , for the innocence Davin embodies brings to Stephen as a brute fact from the real world the missing half of a truth which Stephen has known but so far been unable to admit even to himself , and which will go on mattering to Joyce for many years . |
| 34 | And , given the rather jaundiced view that civil servants had by then formed of the movie business , it is not surprising that they preferred to commend Rank for observing ‘ the normal standards of commercial efficiency and honesty , which have not so far been conspicuous within the film industry ’ than listen to the arguments presented by Palache that budget control on Rank 's film productions was inadequate . |
| 35 | There is no reason to suppose that the Russians are seeking trouble and the same has so far been true of the East Germans . |
| 36 | Whilst MDC 's employment creation record has so far been marginal , the service sector jobs generated by the policy focus on tourism and leisure based industries may be more appropriate to the skills of the local community . |
| 37 | The British public had not so far been inclined to take the latest invasion threat very seriously and its chief effect had been to encourage feminism . |
| 38 | This section has so far been concerned specifically with zero-pressure-gradient boundary layers . |
| 39 | We have so far been concerned wholly with one dimension on which any general interpretation of that sort must be tested . |
| 40 | All the women in the conference planning group had so far been white , and we were only just beginning to respond to Black women 's demands that we examine our racism , and tackle it . |
| 41 | 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 . |
| 42 | The act however , is extremely difficult to enforce , and fines have so far been nominal . |
| 43 | The requirement is as real as any other in the construction industry , but it is interesting to note that take-up in the RICS , with its earlier commitment to obligatory CPD , has been higher than in other professions where it has so far been voluntary . |
| 44 | Consequently , it was felt that while this had not so far been excessive , we needed to keep it under very careful scrutiny to prevent our increasing requests becoming unnecessarily burdensome for the visitors . |
| 45 | The classification schemes that have been considered so far are general bibliographic classification schemes in that they attempt to encompass all of knowledge . |
| 46 | The results so far are encouraging , although problems have arisen because of the requirement for business people to operate under the inflexible and bureaucratic financial controls to which government agencies have become inured over the years . |
| 47 | The methods described so far are suitable for popular waters where it is a case of choosing a swim and staying put for the whole session , which means you must attract fish into your swim and induce them to feed . |
| 48 | Still , most of those quoted so far are real proverbs as the place-names of the Shire are real place-names , and they have a similar function : to draw us in , to make connections between experience inside and outside the story . |
| 49 | The first , which he currently seems to believe himself , is that his failures so far are attributable to bad ‘ communications ’ . |
| 50 | The wind shifts mentioned so far are small and fairly frequent so hopefully you can tack on the headers all the time . |
| 51 | It will be appreciated that ladder filters with configurations other than the one considered so far are possible . |
| 52 | ‘ Their lifting at the line-out is out of the ark and the English players who have met them so far are frustrated about the amount of ball they are allowed to win on the floor . ’ |
| 53 | Certainly , the number of items to come from the field so far are considerable in view of the lack of occupation . |
| 54 | Those examined so far are gold solidi and silver siliquae , produced under a range of emperors of the late 4th to early 5th century including Julian , Honorius and Arcadius . |
| 55 | The positive and negative externalities which have been identified thus far are likely to be rather different for research activities ( i.e. those concerned with the production of new information ) than they are for development activities ( i.e. those concerned with embodying new information into particular products ) , and they may change systematically over the life of any given collaborative programme . |
| 56 | None of these categories of patient so far are likely to get private insurance cover . |
| 57 | All the points raised so far are conceptual rather than practical and would apply to any publication method from hand-set lead type through to true electronic publishing . |
| 58 | ‘ It was kind of Anne to think of it and not condemn us , but — well , we 've managed so far being discreet about it , and I do n't think we should change things now . ’ |
| 59 | Casualties so far were acceptable . |
| 60 | Okay , so what you 've told me so far 's fine . |