Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [verb] [adv] far " in BNC.
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| 1 | Furthermore , some branches of physical geography had proceeded as far as they could without an enhanced knowledge of processes . |
| 2 | The car remained crowded as far as Holborn and then the passengers thinned out . |
| 3 | The quiet sympathy amongst the waiting people was tinged with anger , and an Orcadian farmer voiced the feelings of them all when he said that bureaucracy had gone too far . |
| 4 | The money was the one bright spot the evening had produced so far , the carrot to the threat of the stick . |
| 5 | And now Dungannon s heir had chosen this far from orthodox job . |
| 6 | Freud continually wondered whether or not the process had gone too far in modern societies ; whether the gains in security were no longer sufficient to offset the loss of pleasures which they entailed . |
| 7 | Even those who support the view of a gradual assimilation of legacy and trust in the classical period in order to account for examples of loose language have some difficulty here : for nobody really wants to suppose that this process had got very far in Celsus ' day . |
| 8 | Lerroux , believing that the pendulum had swung too far left in 1931–3 , was now hoping to draw irreversibly into the Republican fold the conservative forces largely represented by the CEDA . |
| 9 | But the pendulum had swung so far that some return to less than enthusiasm was inevitable . |
| 10 | By the following winter Michael Horovitz 's New Departures magazine had advanced so far as to put on a live performance at the same venue . |
| 11 | It was chance , for example , that determined that the lemurs found their way into Madagascar before that island had drifted too far away from Africa , while the monkeys and apes did not ; and so the lemurs of Madagascar had carte blanche to fill all the ecological niches that monkeys and apes came to occupy elsewhere . |
| 12 | ‘ A senior police officer and a police surgeon , both very pleasant and helpful , admitted that in their courting days they had indeed persevered and had sexual intercourse despite protests from the women they were with ; an actor asked in fascination how it could possibly be called rape if a woman had gone so far before protesting ; a dentist [ stated ] ‘ I have had it with dozens of women against their will . |
| 13 | Although his voice failed to carry as far as those of the Academicians ' , there was no possibility of failing to recognize the message . |
| 14 | In a Bundestag debate on the Rabta affair [ see pp. 36385 ; 36411 ] on Jan. 18 , 1989 , Schäuble , then Head of the Federal Chancellery , announced that the federal government had received as far back as August 1987 information that Imhausen-Chemie , a West German company , had been involved in the construction in Libya , of a plant deemed by United States intelligence to be capable of manufacturing chemical weapons . |
| 15 | The bastard had gone too far this time . |
| 16 | One line of thought was that the government wished to dampen as far as possible the spirits of anti-apartheid demonstrators who are planning marches all over the country today in celebration of the releases , which have been proclaimed ‘ a great victory for the people ’ . |
| 17 | It was not possible for the NFER project team to study in any detail the role of investigative work in a graduated test scheme , partly because few schools associated with the project had gone very far towards introducing it into their curricula . |
| 18 | The whole three-hour operation was painless but tedious , and I dozed off when the thin white line had progressed as far as my X-rayed knees on the screen in front of me . |
| 19 | I suppose they must be , thought Lydia , shrugging , and wondering also whether the modern tendency , which was American in origin , to tell everybody everything before they 'd even got the first olive off the cocktail stick had percolated as far as here . |
| 20 | She reported that there was a general feeling of satisfaction with the standard of publicity that the Year had received so far from the media . |
| 21 | Effective anti-syphilitic drugs , the arsenicals and later penicillin , made prevention possible , though they could not effect a cure if damage to the brain had gone too far . |
| 22 | It must be a long time , he thought , since Dad had travelled this far . |
| 23 | The scaffolding had been cleared away and the plastering had progressed as far as the season would allow . |
| 24 | The New Statesman was not saying that familial and sexual issues should not be discussed under any circumstances , but that the discussion had gone too far . |
| 25 | Because of relaxed licensing in the area , the balance had swung very far indeed from the interests of the large and , it was hoped , growing population of the Old Town . |
| 26 | JUST when you thought frilly knicker and bra design had gone as far as it could , Sherwood Group is set to go further . |
| 27 | The weather had recovered so far as to be rainless , breezy , faintly warm . |