Example sentences of "[verb] been [vb pp] [adv] far [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once a system has been pushed too far out of equilibrium , it takes just a little further input for a period of turmoil to ensue , followed by a new equilibrium . |
| 2 | The analysis of patterns of class based inequality that has been presented so far clearly indicates the existence of people who experience considerably disadvantaged life chances , those for example who are found among the lowest 20 per cent of income earners . |
| 3 | Badgers are also suffering from malnutrition because their staple diet , the thirsty earthworm has been forced too far underground for them to reach . |
| 4 | The burning oil wells of Kuwait continue to cause widespread air pollution , notably in the form of " black rain " , which has been reported as far away as Bulgaria , Afghanistan and Pakistan . |
| 5 | Nesting has been proved as far inland as Harting . |
| 6 | In Mycenaean times , Thorikos on the east Attic coast was importing the black volcanic glass called obsidian from the island of Melos , a reminder that there was and is a good little harbour nearby at Laurion ; Attic submycenaean and geometric pottery has been found as far away as western Asia Minor ; and the archaic Athenian colonies at Sigeum and the Chersonese , and the sixth-century cleruchies on Salamis and Euboia , foreshadow the fifth-century empire . |
| 7 | Volcanic effects have been even more sudden and disastrous , ranging from the explosion of the island of Krakatoa , between Java and Sumatra , in 1883 to the even more catastrophic eruption of Santorini ( or Thira ) in the Aegean about 1470 B.C. This eruption , or series of eruptions , which resulted in the huge collapsed caldera in the sea beside the present island , must have been the greatest catastrophe ever witnessed by man and may well have been heard as far away as Britain . |
| 8 | Nevertheless , Dr Michel Halbouty , chairman of the Circum-Pacific Council for Energy and Mineral Resources , told the meeting that the findings indicated that as much oil and gas remained to be found in the Pacific as had been discovered so far worldwide . |
| 9 | FitzGerald had been determined as far back as 1964 ( 1964 ; 1972 ) to make constitutional changes to those articles which appeared to alienate Northern protestant opinion . |
| 10 | Yet it is ironical that the most startling changes in industrial chemistry came in dyestuffs , because the fundamental discoveries in this field had been made as far back as 1857 by an Englishman , and England and France dominated aniline dye production until 1870 . |
| 11 | Clifford always insisted that there must be a real ‘ conversion ’ for each individual although he also thought that the belief in individualism had been pushed too far both in the Church and in society . |
| 12 | It reminded her too strongly for her own good that he had been doled out far too much fatal charm . |
| 13 | In the spring of 1988 , the apparently moribund plan for rural systematization which had been heralded as far back as 1968 was suddenly taken up again . |
| 14 | The parish had been enclosed as far back as 1761 — two generations earlier — but Alken 's view still gives a general impression of wide spaces and open views . |
| 15 | Poisoning incidents have been registered as far back as 1842 . |
| 16 | The foundations of the Whitbread Hop Farm have been traced as far back as 1836 , when it was known as Beltring Farm . |
| 17 | In conclusion , Owens ( 1984 ) has commented that the 1980s have been characterized so far not by significant conceptual developments , but by a further widening of the empirical base . |
| 18 | However , active traces carried by currents have been identified as far away as Greenland . |
| 19 | Isolated examples have been found as far afield as ancient Egypt and the Indus Valley , another illustration of the extent to which the most precious substances might be distributed to different polities by way of prestige networks . |
| 20 | They have been found so far only in construction disputes , but there is nothing to prevent their use in other contexts . |
| 21 | We have been carried very far indeed away from the medieval vision of society , of Christendom , of the place of the church and of theology as the crown of genuine knowledge . |