Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [verb] [adv] far " in BNC.
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| 1 | How the Mini Master will be regarded by Britain 's Civil Aviation Authority remains to be seen , but the CAA has indicated so far that it will expect pilots flying the aircraft to be holders of a multi engine rating , which currently costs around £1,200 to obtain on a conventional twin aircraft . |
| 2 | Christopher Columbus did it with a smaller crew than Taylor has tried so far . |
| 3 | Conran has gone so far as ending catwalk exhibitions totally in favour of presentation by video . |
| 4 | Edgar managed to get as far as the door . |
| 5 | By Lancaster Road standards , the Ryans had gone too far up in the world , making them aliens . |
| 6 | By the end of August , Brusilov had advanced so far as to make replenishment of men and matériel difficult , often impossible . |
| 7 | Of our ship 's company , only Tooth and Tasman had ventured as far east as this , and the waters ahead were equally unknown to all of us . |
| 8 | The study of the distribution of exotic imported goods within England has extended as far as noting that there are two basic patterns to their distribution , apparently depending on their sources , and that particular areas or individual cemeteries have disproportionately high quantities of some of these goods . |
| 9 | Severus managed to get as far as the Montrose region and perhaps briefly beyond that : tantalizingly , in 1869 labourers on the Duke of Sutherland 's railway extension to Helmsdale and ultimately to Thurso in distant Caithness unearthed a collection of Roman bronze coins in a region never held and supposedly never reached by imperial forces . |
| 10 | In Classical antiquity there were connections between Europe and India even before the conquests of Alexander had extended as far as the north-western part of the Indian subcontinent . |
| 11 | In Jordan , where the authorities hope the experiment in democracy will become a model for other Arab states , King Hussein has opted so far to draw the fundamentalists into the government . |
| 12 | Ian and Vicki decide to explore as far as the next hill , leaving Barbara and the Doctor behind to sunbathe . |
| 13 | Now Malekith had gone too far . |
| 14 | Donald McLaggan had gone too far with Flora Stewart , swinging so wildly that the girl flung against the smaller table and fell onto it with her hair in the great bowl of broth . |
| 15 | Fred had gone too far , had widened the discourse unfairly . |
| 16 | In the three weeks since , Theda had tried as far as possible to keep her so . |
| 17 | ‘ Kennedy ’ is as good as anything The Prez have recorded so far in their brilliant career . ’ |
| 18 | In his second novel , The Inheritors , Golding has stood so far back from modern historical progress as to imagine the supersession of innocent , hairy Neanderthalers by ‘ bone-face men ’ in a prehistoric age : they wear clothes or , as the primitive eye sees it , they step outside their skins . |
| 19 | Israel has gone too far this time . |
| 20 | Indeed , Professor Roskell has gone so far as to suggest that the nobility could not be relied upon to attend parliament in the 1350s and 1360s even when they were present in England , and that these parliaments amounted to little more than tax bargaining sessions between the king and the commons . |
| 21 | Only one part of the UK appears to have so far escaped : the northwest Highlands and Islands . |
| 22 | By 1990 , IGBP had progressed as far as defining a set of seven core projects ( IGBP 1990 ) addressing these four themes . |
| 23 | What lay behind Eadwine 's assault on the kingdom of Gwynedd is never made clear , but Aethelfrith had campaigned as far afield as Chester against the men of Powys and the Anglian attack on the north Britons was a continuing process . |
| 24 | The fact that IBM Corp has scheduled a board meeting for next Tuesday has analysts speculating like mad that the company may name its new chief executive after the meeting : the only name now being tossed about is that of Louis Gerstner , chairman and chief executive of RJR Nabisco Inc , who shot to favourite in the betting after USA Today reported that talks between IBM and Gerstner had gone as far as discussion of a compensation package . |
| 25 | So Davout had got that far . |
| 26 | But Harding was rallying his faculties fast ; I was certain Lawrence had gone too far this time . |
| 27 | She felt that Maggie Gibbs had gone too far . |
| 28 | He seemed to Trent to have withdrawn so far into himself that there was nothing left in his eyes . |
| 29 | José Harris has gone as far as to describe the dispute as ‘ a major conflict of principle ’ between the two boards . |
| 30 | Barry has gone too far this time . |