Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] [verb] so far " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is n't this all , to use a term I 've so far studiously avoided , too New Age for comfort , with all its dubious connotations of exploitation , escapism and Wyndham Hill music tapes , whose utter blandness makes the most soporific MOR music seem positively hardcore ? |
| 2 | Working on an exhibition of this nature inevitably leads to reflection on the artist : ‘ The more I work on Rembrandt , the more fascinated I am and the more remarkable he becomes ’ was Christopher Brown 's assessment , ‘ in range , ambition and the achievement of that ambition he stands so far above his contemporaries ’ . |
| 3 | THE best sermon I have so far heard was on the subject of ‘ ontological anxiety ’ . |
| 4 | A column entitled ‘ Bulletin ’ informs her that Marilyn French will be discussing her new book , Beyond Power : Women , Men and Morals , at a public meeting to be held later in the week in London , and it crosses Robyn 's mind , not for the first time , that it is a pity she lives so far from the metropolis where such exciting events are always happening . |
| 5 | It emphasises that she is not the awful old termagant she has so far seemed to be . |
| 6 | The beginning of an answer to this question is implicit in the accounts of concessive holism we have so far considered . |
| 7 | That recognised , its achievement is answer enough to the question why , given the attributes claimed for it , the place it has so far established for itself in the economy is still no more than marginal . |
| 8 | Perhaps the most disturbing factor I have so far encountered is that any savings from outpatient surgery are to the purchaser 's benefit , not the provider 's , and therefore outpatient surgery will effectively incur a financial penalty . |
| 9 | But on the whole I think so far we 've brushed through quite well with him . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Activity' seems to be one car — all I see as I meander my way through the hills above the lonely hamlet of Núpur. beyond it is the biggest fish-drying frame I have so far seen , with overflow fish hung on a wire fence alongside . |
| 11 | One morning he went so far as to say to Nikos that he thought the affair was now over . |
| 12 | For simplicity we have so far ignored the expenses of running a unit trust . |
| 13 | THE INHABITANTS of the planet Myrin have much to endure from Earthmen , inevitably , perhaps , since they represent the only intelligent life we have so far found in the galaxy . |
| 14 | After nearly seven hours deliberation they 've so far failed to reach a unanimous verdict . |
| 15 | While such Parkinsonian notion has an attractive simplicity it has so far eluded empirical verification ( see Blumstein , Cohen and Gooding , 1983 , for the refutation of one such claim ) , it is clear that under certain circumstances capacity may act as a brake on population expansion . |
| 16 | In chapter nine of The Form Rolle uses this Jesus prayer to recapitulate the whole progress in love he has so far described — it becomes as it were the tool which shapes and conveys his understanding of redemption : The prose is orchestrated to a climax . |
| 17 | To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what response he has so far received on his White Paper about reform of local government . |
| 18 | The answer I have so far given that it is from achieving effectively and efficiently , fundamentally important aims such as developing inventiveness , initiative , adaptability , intellectual curiosity , sensitivity , confidence , and so on — general transferable skills and attitudes which will equip our students for their future lives . |
| 19 | When Ruth went down to the lower deck it was a hive of activity , with the strangest thing she had so far seen taking place . |
| 20 | She had called him by his name — a thing she had so far refused to do . |
| 21 | The only thing he had so far managed to wreck was the Wilson family 's CD player . |
| 22 | But if he winds up running his film company the way he has so far run his restaurant , he may find himself forced to serve up more and more celluloid ham just to keep things afloat . |
| 23 | This mutual incomprehension could , of course , be accidental ; but I will suggest that it expresses a division between the two positions which runs deeper than the dispute we have so far considered . |
| 24 | ‘ How on earth it strayed so far away from the flock without being missed . |