Example sentences of "[noun sg] had [vb pp] as 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The scaffolding had been cleared away and the plastering had progressed as far as the season would allow . |
| 6 | JUST when you thought frilly knicker and bra design had gone as far as it could , Sherwood Group is set to go further . |