Example sentences of "[conj] the [noun sg] [verb] so far " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unions sources said last night that they think the move could have a knock-on effect at other firms , and could be seized on by unions at Ford — where the company has so far resisted demands to reduce the 39-hour working week , and whose workers at Southampton walked out yesterday in protest at the company 's pay offer . |
| 2 | Where the husband goes so far as to cause injury , there are available a number of offences against the person with which he may be charged , but the gravamen of the husband 's conduct is the injury he has caused not the sexual intercourse he has forced . ’ |
| 3 | The private rented sector as you should be well aware , is in fact declining quite rapidly in this country and no measure that the government has so far taken has managed to rev reverse that trend . |
| 4 | The next problem comes when we recognize that the work done so far has produced a piece of research which could easily keep a dozen people occupied for the rest of their lives . |
| 5 | A second approach to the problem of the legitimacy of corporate managerial power might begin by showing that the response outlined so far is fundamentally misguided . |
| 6 | The reality is that the scheme has so far been limited to a small number of well managed practices , which for the most part were generously funded and chosen to succeed . |
| 7 | Yet several weeks into the scandal , the New Yorker complained that the mess had so far mocked all attempts to baptize it . |
| 8 | In his report to the 65th session of the IMO Council meeting on Nov. 5-9 , he said that the organization had so far received only 63 per cent of the contributions due for 1990 — the lowest figure for many years . |
| 9 | Although the council had so far managed to hold a balance , its ability to do so once the king was crowned was more doubtful . |
| 10 | Although the council had so far managed to hold a balance , its ability to do so once the king was crowned was more doubtful . |
| 11 | Although the company has so far finished only four chips , all seven should be ready for the prototypes that the company will exhibit at the Berlin Radio Show in August . |
| 12 | Nevertheless there has been little interest in exploring for Zechstein gas in the North Sea and the test results so far encountered have been very discouraging . |
| 13 | It is widely accepted that vast amounts of police time are wasted by calling constables unnecessarily as court witnesses but the problem has so far proved intractable . |
| 14 | Shares rose sharply at the beginning of the year in anticipation of an economic rebound , but the recovery has so far been very sluggish . |
| 15 | Will the Leader of the House arrange for an early statement from the Lord Chancellor on the workings of the Civil Evidence Act 1968 following the collapse yesterday in Liverpool and Gravesham of several hundred poll tax cases because the Government have so far refused to introduce a commencement order to allow computer evidence to be used in the magistrates court under that Act ? |
| 16 | An appeal fund set up after the tragedy has so far raised £149,664 in memory of James . |
| 17 | This is more than a million million million times as long as the universe has so far existed . |
| 18 | The simple fact is that we believe , as the Opposition have so far , that the best way to make movements along those lines is through international agreement and through the International Maritime Organisation . |