Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] far [vb -s] [been] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The response so far has been promising . |
| 2 | The accent so far has been on production and we need to spread its use in the commercial , R&T and other support functions . |
| 3 | ‘ And the only violence so far has been caused by your friend — pardon , your associate — Steve . |
| 4 | The cost of this replacement programme so far has been £7.3 million . |
| 5 | The view from the back seat so far has been quite encouraging . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Most of this research so far has been done by private companies ( mostly American ) . |
| 8 | Most of the NII 's work so far has been on an earlier ‘ reference design ’ , which has now been superseded by a ‘ contract ’ design . |
| 9 | It 's not quite as good as the bonking ladybirds that preceded it , but every single ad in the campaign so far has been a gem . |
| 10 | We estimate the cost of this campaign so far has been in excess of £20,000 . |
| 11 | When we say that the response of the Community so far has been ineffectual , that is not a comment on the team spirit and competence of that monitoring force . |
| 12 | The only difference of opinion so far has been over boxing . |
| 13 | This record so far has been dictated in one long burst . |
| 14 | The upshot of our inquiry so far has been the drawing of a sharp distinction between the ‘ ego instincts ’ and the sexual instincts , and the view that the former exercise pressure towards death and the latter towards a prolongation of life … |
| 15 | Germany 's response to the Gulf war so far has been a week of hand-wringing and of big , mainly anti-American demonstrations . |
| 16 | But institutional investors ' reaction so far has been unenthusiastic or even hostile , and without their support the APB 's ideas will never get off the ground . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The most striking Iraqi achievement so far has been the saving of its air force , a feat that owes more to engineering than combat . |
| 19 | For instance : ‘ My greatest achievement so far has been supervising the Brillo campaign . ’ |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | … He explains that the day so far has been pretty typical . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The argument so far has been that since meaning is indeterminate at the non-observational level , translation must be too . |
| 24 | The favoured strategy so far has been to introduce a cooling-off period before industrial action could be taken . |
| 25 | On the other hand , Major 's strategy so far has been to initiate a secret review of intelligence gathering in Northern Ireland . |
| 26 | Abdominal imaging so far has been disappointing because of the aperiodic motion of the gut wall and its contents . |
| 27 | There have been murmurs of discontent among manufacturers considering diversifying away from Macao , but businessmen say that the only impact so far has been a shift of orders from China to Macao . |
| 28 | Krystom 's main impact so far has been in catching carp , the Independent readers of the fish world . |
| 29 | His career so far has been a lengthy dues-paying climb which has taken him from his Arkansas birthplace to Los Angeles , San Francisco , the US military in Germany and finally London . |
| 30 | Her career so far has been in publishing , and , following the birth of her son James in 1982 , this has enabled her to work from home . |