Example sentences of "[vb infin] [vb pp] [adv] far [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They would n't have come as far as this on their own , he must be driving them . ’ |
| 2 | Managers in their late forties begin to see that they are no longer the up-and-coming stars — indeed they may have come as far as they are going to go . |
| 3 | The implications of the new technological revolution go far beyond the silicon chip and its offspring , a message that may have penetrated as far as Kenneth Baker , Britain 's Minister for Information Technology . |
| 4 | In the late 19th century , they studied bumps on heads ( phrenology ) and if you were unfortunate enough to have a large protuberance on your forehead — well , you would n't have got as far as nice chats in the grocer 's with a friendly-going-on-gullible type like myself . |
| 5 | But she should have got as far as London . |
| 6 | I am not sure she could actually have gone so far as to say things like : ‘ these errors may be trivial in themselves , but you must yourself realize their larger significance ’ . |
| 7 | She would not have gone so far as to define it as softness . |
| 8 | These policies should bear in mind principles such as that when children leave school they should have acquired as far as possible : |