Example sentences of "[noun] so far [vb -s] [been] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And the only violence so far has been caused by your friend — pardon , your associate — Steve . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Most of this research so far has been done by private companies ( mostly American ) . |
| 4 | This record so far has been dictated in one long burst . |
| 5 | Our aim so far has been to show that the " stylistic variant " view of style , which supports the dualist 's conviction that style can be distinguished from message , can lead to a more precise understanding of what it means for a writer to choose this rather than that way of putting things . |
| 6 | For instance : ‘ My greatest achievement so far has been supervising the Brillo campaign . ’ |
| 7 | Her most unusual assignment so far has been interviewing Daniel Ortega at a dinner party , Sandinista style , where she drank rum with the bodyguards and was persuaded to dance with Ortega . |
| 8 | So Mrs so far has been hogging the whole show , is that right ? |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | On the other hand , Major 's strategy so far has been to initiate a secret review of intelligence gathering in Northern Ireland . |
| 11 | The favoured strategy so far has been to introduce a cooling-off period before industrial action could be taken . |
| 12 | Abdominal imaging so far has been disappointing because of the aperiodic motion of the gut wall and its contents . |
| 13 | To my mind , the major contribution of econometrics to our understanding of advertising so far has been to establish the relatively marginal effect of advertising expenditure level changes in comparison with price changes : typically , price movements relative to competition seem to account for as much as 70–80 per cent of the changes in brand shares in a market . |
| 14 | My only problem so far has been keeping track of who , exactly , in the Archives quotations is saying what . |
| 15 | The only problem so far has been to anchor the device when the current gets too strong . |
| 16 | The purpose of our discussion so far has been to demonstrate that there are important patterns of change that are not readily captured in a paradigm that measures a unilinear scale of phonetic variation against a unilinear scale of socio-economic class . |
| 17 | The aim of the discussion so far has been to show that tragedy arises from the spirit of music and is bound to perish without it . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The value of the political talks so far has been to expose three basic truths . |
| 20 | Most of the material so far has been keyed directly on to a computer housed at Guildhall Library . |