Example sentences of "so far [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | All these studies of the transition from school to work discussed so far had assumed that there was work for young people to enter . |
| 32 | It is worth recalling that on the eve of the French Revolution the French peasant 's expectancy is thought to have been rather below that of the Indian in 1881 ; so far had Europe already come in the ninety years before 1880 . |
| 33 | Not once so far had they mentioned her by name , almost as though from some superstition . |
| 34 | Mr Bartell said privatisation of the service so far had been ‘ farcical ’ with escapes from the new Group 4 escort service and reports from the privately run Wolds Prison of drug and alcohol abuse . |
| 35 | This neutralised the efforts of the consortium since all funds committed so far had been for the purchase of the collection intact ; they could not be used for individual sale bids or any subsequent related negotiations . |
| 36 | Each stage of the selection process so far had been a complete surprise : the waiting tended to heighten the anticipation and sense of cowed nervousness we all felt . |
| 37 | Cotterell 's experience so far had been that RCO had virtually pre-written most of Carson 's material for him . |
| 38 | As major-general in 1655–7 for Northamptonshire , Bedfordshire , and Huntingdon — a remarkable appointment for one who so far had never commanded a regiment — he was particularly harsh on Catholics , Quakers ( then notorious as ‘ disturbers of the peace ’ ) , and ‘ rogues and vagabonds ’ , whom he seems to have lumped together . |
| 39 | He returned to London from Lancaster in 1862 without job or income , sensing that his life so far had been a failure . |
| 40 | So far had music come in the sixteen years since Palestrina 's death . |
| 41 | It would not be simple at all , because nothing she had told him so far had been trusted . |
| 42 | Someone moved , close by , someone whose approach so far had been in silence , and she quickly took her hand away . |
| 43 | He had searched for this assassin by silent threat and bribery but so far had discovered nothing . |
| 44 | Portia Forbes so far had shown no interest in establishing any . |
| 45 | The only substantial aid received by the government so far had been $300,000,000 from the United States agreed by the US Congress in May 1990 [ see p. 37450 ] , which had been gradually disbursed , except for $50,000,000 which had been set aside for clearing debt arrears . |
| 46 | Virtually nothing so far had been published on its birds . |
| 47 | Gould 's experiences so far had encouraged him to expect similar rewards from the next leg of the expedition , and he left Van Diemen 's Land in a spirit of optimism and with a light heart . |
| 48 | Nothing in her life so far had prepared Laura for the shock she experienced at the sheer animal magnetism projected by the stranger . |
| 49 | He also said US airdrops so far had been grossly lacking in penicillin and anaesthetics vital for surgery . |
| 50 | so far had |
| 51 | The absence of a clear candidate was likely to result in a land torn by dispute and , because Arjun had not so far named anyone , it was to men like Burun that the others looked for indication of a preference . |
| 52 | All theoretical treatments of the quantised Hall effect proposed so far require there to be no dissipative scattering if they are to account for the values of h/Ne 2 at the plateaux . |
| 53 | Most of the modes considered so far require the involvement in each state of an agency of central government as well as the competent official ( parquet , etc. ) at the local level . |
| 54 | The best feasible solution so far discovered will be called the incumbent . |
| 55 | The earliest so far discovered are dragonflies . |
| 56 | Most Escherichia coli promoters studied so far form stable open complexes with σ 70 -RNA polymerase which have relatively long half-lives and , therefore , are resistant to a competitor challenge . |
| 57 | The foregoing reminds the reader of the salient ideas so far written to introduce the idea of the Created God . |
| 58 | The foregoing summarises some of the ideas and premises so far written about , and on which the conception of the Created God rests . |
| 59 | ‘ What I liked in the books was the free open-air life , the spice of illegality and daring , roguish characters — the opportunities so far exceeding my own , the gun , the great pond , the country home , the apparently endless leisure — the glorious moments that one could always recapture by opening the Poacher — and the tinge of sadness here and there as in the picture of the old moucher perishing in his sleep by the lime kiln , and the heron flying over in the morning indifferent . ’ |
| 60 | The children sit for normal exams at the local school and have so far maintained a necessary standard . |