Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [vb pp] [adv] far [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However the government has not gone as far as it might have . |
| 2 | In some areas , mechanisation is replacing labour although in the countryside this has not gone as far as on North American farms . |
| 3 | Despite a massive PR job by Buckingham Palace , it looks like nothing has really changed as far as Charles and Di are concerned ! |
| 4 | ‘ THE shareholders must be hoping the bank has n't gone as far as to give him a company credit card ’ — Labour leader John Smith , on ex-Chancellor Norman Lamont 's new employer , Rothschilds Bank . |
| 5 | One ARENA spokesman has even gone so far as to suggest that there are nine to ten women in the party for every man . |
| 6 | One such protagonist has recently gone so far as to claim that Aristotle 's Phantasmata — the mental images that are involved in most or all mental activities — are identical with the symbols on which computational procedures are carried out . |
| 7 | ‘ What 's an 81 anyway , Paul — I though we 'd only got as far as 7b ? ’ |
| 8 | ‘ We 'd only got as far as having a preliminary psyche dissection on Daine , ’ said Trefusis , ‘ but the Yggdrasil probes suggest he had a similar-although far more pronounced — set of personality deformities . |
| 9 | By next morning I 'd only got as far as realising that I had to talk you round . ’ |
| 10 | The next day I was walking to work and I 'd just got as far as the hospital . |
| 11 | Just what was the object of Barbara 's terror that viewers had only seen so far as a suction cup visible through a circular lens cowl ? |
| 12 | Even my wharped mind had only got as far as thinking . |
| 13 | Negotiations were conducted in great secrecy when the manuscripts had already got as far as the freeport in Zurich and were being examined by two well backed dealers and by representatives of the Getty Museum . |
| 14 | However , even by the middle years of the nineteenth century an industrial city like Manchester had not expanded so far as to prevent its mill workers walking in the country on Sundays . |
| 15 | They had not gone very far when a great brightness showed over the mountains beyond the forest , and suddenly in front of them they saw a beautiful young man , all dressed in gold , with a scarlet lining to his cloak . |
| 16 | He had not gone very far when the mysterious little girl suddenly appeared again , from the dry gully of a mountain stream . |
| 17 | Even then , he had not got as far as thinking what would be the music that introduced the News and all at once the screen was filled with a picture of his own house , a picture that nearly jolted him out of his skin . |
| 18 | They had not got as far as Bamburgh , being warned by scouts of an English reinforcement army from Newcastle on the march northwards , which could have caused complications . |
| 19 | That day , by way of the radio popolo the news of the rastrellamento spread like wildfire , but it had not spread as far as Eric 's farm . |
| 20 | But when I saw it tonight I had just struggled as far as the road . |
| 21 | It was the first time that the chubby presenter , the ravages of drink clear in the dark bags under his eyes , had ever gone so far and admitted in public his total dependence . |
| 22 | We had n't gone very far when we met up with another Lancaster returning from a Cook 's Tour , and to my horror the two aircraft then flew wing-tip to wing-tip all the way home . |
| 23 | We had n't gone as far as we would have liked , and it was touch and go until the very last moment , but we just squeezed past the point between Tanakeke island and the mainland . |
| 24 | They had n't walked very far when they came to a tiny dirt track off the road . |
| 25 | They had n't got as far as stating any intention on that subject — for the simple reason that marriage had n't been part of the plan . |
| 26 | She had n't got this far nor worked this hard just to give up at the thought of some sort of opposition . |
| 27 | ‘ I had n't thought as far as that , ’ she said , quivering . |
| 28 | Potrovsky had waxed and polished the car the night before and had even gone as far as to iron the two pennants which flew on either side of the bonnet . |
| 29 | In the second half of the nineteenth century such sentiments had fostered the growth of a small but vigorous school of Siberian regionalist writers and political activists ( oblastniki ) , some of whom had even gone so far as to envisage the complete political separation of Siberia from Russia and the establishment of a new , independent Siberian republic . |
| 30 | by no means ‘ lightly advancing thro ’ her star-trimm 'd crowd' — he had even gone so far as to look up Lantor 's lines about Ianthe — but perhaps women could n't be expected always to live up to what poets wrote about them . |