Example sentences of "been [adv] far " in BNC.
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1 | In the days before glasnost — which his fictions may be thought to have rehearsed and predicted , but which could well mean that his fictions will no longer be for the West what they have been so far , when the thing that they deplore was still there in its entirety to be deplored — Kundera was forced into exile in the ‘ free world ’ of the time . |
2 | Yet even here she had been so far weak , so far selfish , in concealing her violent and terrible feelings , her destructive misery , her rage . |
3 | I was angry that humans should be subjected to such degradation and I realised just how lucky I had been so far . |
4 | ‘ But I know I 've got to be as successful over the next five to eight years as I have been so far . |
5 | It would be nice if the conference were preceded by an agreement on Cyprus — about which the Turks could usefully be more accommodating than they have been so far — but the conference should not depend on that , any more than the Helsinki one needed a prior agreement on the unification of Germany . |
6 | There is the irony : that , just when British Empirical Socialism had come to terms with the idea of a mixed economy , when it had accepted that for the indefinite future a public sector and a private sector would co-exist , when the tangle of objections which the Webbs had seen to the development of a privately-owned industrial co-operative sector had been so far cleared away as to open the path to a natural growth of industrial democracy by a means which , because it reconciled the rights and interests of labour with those of ownership , would have been sustainable , the Labour Government ignored or overlooked the opportunity . |
7 | In schools , the development of European awareness will have to be built into the curriculum much more than it has been so far . |
8 | My attention had been so far away and the dog had timed his jump to a split second so that his bark came at the highest point , his teeth only inches from my face . |
9 | It , it has n't been so far because I 'm left right behind a background . |
10 | ‘ And how long has it been so far ? ’ |
11 | 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 … |
12 | It was just that in the end would have been so far the other side of six weeks as to be out of sight , and she could n't stand any more writs , summonses or legal documents in long brown envelopes . |
13 | The role of specific acetyltransferase activity in Crohn 's disease patients has not been so far studied , and deserves investigation . |
14 | A comprehensive evaluation of the motility at different levels of the gastrointestinal tract in diabetic patients , however , has not been so far reported . |
15 | The debate about the depletion of the ozone layer has been so far hampered by a scarcity of data . |
16 | Such an interpretation of the concept of " sustainable use " of wildlife has been so far resisted by most CITES members [ see ED 56 for details of the last CITES meeting , and the debate surrounding these issues ] . |
17 | General item two straight after number five back to the budget which allow us a couple of petitioners who have been so far . |
18 | People will say we should beat them but we 've seen how difficult this trip has been so far . |
19 | Well how difficult a season has it been so far , I mean for instance , in the minor County Championship a lot of matches were drawn I think that last season you probably would have won ? |
20 | It 's not been as far as the parish is concerned |
21 | I have n't been as far down there , I 've only been as far as the doctor 's surgery , down that road . |
22 | She 'd have been too far gone to hear . |
23 | He referred jestingly to ‘ that which somewhat sticks by me : it is the forest , and I might easily lose myself in it ’ A committee of the Commons a week later complained , among many other ‘ grievances in the civil government ’ , of ‘ Forest fines , which of late have been too far enlarged ’ . |