Example sentences of "far [vb -s] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only government support so far has been a recommendation by the Rural Development Commission , part of the Department of the Environment , to establish a pilot scheme . |
| 2 | There have been murmurs of discontent among manufacturers considering diversifying away from Macao , but businessmen say that the only impact so far has been a shift of orders from China to Macao . |
| 3 | The favoured strategy so far has been to introduce a cooling-off period before industrial action could be taken . |
| 4 | Krystom 's main impact so far has been in catching carp , the Independent readers of the fish world . |
| 5 | The argument so far has been intended to put forward the possibility that an art work or image could be official and coercive , and unofficial and subversive , all at the same time . |
| 6 | Germany 's response to the Gulf war so far has been a week of hand-wringing and of big , mainly anti-American demonstrations . |
| 7 | The most striking Iraqi achievement so far has been the saving of its air force , a feat that owes more to engineering than combat . |
| 8 | Even so , the official response from Moscow so far has been muted . |
| 9 | The bulk of this book so far has been concerned with looking at what happens when people lose something . |
| 10 | My only problem so far has been keeping track of who , exactly , in the Archives quotations is saying what . |
| 11 | The discussion so far has been oriented towards lessening the pressure caused by the build up of queues and ways of smoothing the flow of clients through a bureau . |
| 12 | Most of the gas discovered so far has been from the Z2 Carbonate but a few finds have also been made from the Z3 Carbonate in the western Netherlands and the adjacent offshore area , and gas is present in both the Z1 and Z2 Carbonates in Scram . |
| 13 | However , the emphasis in the project so far has been on formulating these individual solutions rather than on co-ordinating them . |
| 14 | Most of the NII 's work so far has been on an earlier ‘ reference design ’ , which has now been superseded by a ‘ contract ’ design . |
| 15 | The only problem so far has been to anchor the device when the current gets too strong . |
| 16 | Most of this research so far has been done by private companies ( mostly American ) . |
| 17 | The cost of this replacement programme so far has been £7.3 million . |
| 18 | The reader is reminded that all that has been written so far has been dealing with the First and Second Periods into which the development of the Created God has been divided . |
| 19 | On the other hand , Major 's strategy so far has been to initiate a secret review of intelligence gathering in Northern Ireland . |
| 20 | But institutional investors ' reaction so far has been unenthusiastic or even hostile , and without their support the APB 's ideas will never get off the ground . |
| 21 | The industrial machine that we have followed so far has been the philosophies of the Enlightenment embodied and incarnated in the economic mode of capitalism . |
| 22 | For instance : ‘ My greatest achievement so far has been supervising the Brillo campaign . ’ |
| 23 | The only difference of opinion so far has been over boxing . |
| 24 | Klaasen 's contention that ‘ the only integration that has gone on so far has been among the top officials ’ seemed to be borne out by the fact that we had to wait for the penultimate game of the tours to seen the first nonwhite player take the field . |
| 25 | His career so far has been a lengthy dues-paying climb which has taken him from his Arkansas birthplace to Los Angeles , San Francisco , the US military in Germany and finally London . |
| 26 | ‘ And the only violence so far has been caused by your friend — pardon , your associate — Steve . |
| 27 | The line from Paris so far has been consistent : devaluation would do more harm than good , by fuelling inflation and upsetting stability . |
| 28 | His most effective action so far has been to deflect the corruption allegations by recruiting Spain 's ‘ Mr Clean ’ to stand alongside him as a Socialist candidate . |
| 29 | The one positive thing to emerge from privatisation so far has been the degree of accountability that has been imposed on Group 4 , far more stringent than the level the police and prison officers are used to . |
| 30 | It 's not quite as good as the bonking ladybirds that preceded it , but every single ad in the campaign so far has been a gem . |