Example sentences of "[noun] had [vb pp] [adv] far as " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the end of August , Brusilov had advanced so far as to make replenishment of men and matériel difficult , often impossible . |
| 2 | Furthermore , some branches of physical geography had proceeded as far as they could without an enhanced knowledge of processes . |
| 3 | In Classical antiquity there were connections between Europe and India even before the conquests of Alexander had extended as far as the north-western part of the Indian subcontinent . |
| 4 | By the beginning of this century , however , the towers had gone as far as they could go . |
| 5 | In the three weeks since , Theda had tried as far as possible to keep her so . |
| 6 | By 1990 , IGBP had progressed as far as defining a set of seven core projects ( IGBP 1990 ) addressing these four themes . |
| 7 | The fact that IBM Corp has scheduled a board meeting for next Tuesday has analysts speculating like mad that the company may name its new chief executive after the meeting : the only name now being tossed about is that of Louis Gerstner , chairman and chief executive of RJR Nabisco Inc , who shot to favourite in the betting after USA Today reported that talks between IBM and Gerstner had gone as far as discussion of a compensation package . |
| 8 | By the following winter Michael Horovitz 's New Departures magazine had advanced so far as to put on a live performance at the same venue . |
| 9 | The whole three-hour operation was painless but tedious , and I dozed off when the thin white line had progressed as far as my X-rayed knees on the screen in front of me . |
| 10 | Indeed , Francis Crick had gone so far as to suggest , at least half seriously , that all work in molecular biology and biochemistry on anything else should stop until E. coli was ‘ solved ’ — whatever might be meant by such a solution . |
| 11 | I suppose they must be , thought Lydia , shrugging , and wondering also whether the modern tendency , which was American in origin , to tell everybody everything before they 'd even got the first olive off the cocktail stick had percolated as far as here . |
| 12 | The scaffolding had been cleared away and the plastering had progressed as far as the season would allow . |
| 13 | JUST when you thought frilly knicker and bra design had gone as far as it could , Sherwood Group is set to go further . |
| 14 | The weather had recovered so far as to be rainless , breezy , faintly warm . |
| 15 | After praying together , Duff had got as far as the door , when the old man whispered his name . |
| 16 | Louise had gone so far as to allow him access to her papers and portfolio : he and Simon Scher were working on them now . |