Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] far [verb] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 The sociological models described so far needed to be recast .
2 All the characteristics listed so far tell of the leader 's relationship with God ( 'looking up' ) .
3 Most of the studies reviewed so far focus on people 's attitudes to domestic energy use and equipment , an aspect of their immediate daily life .
4 It was hardly surprising that this was the case , and it did n't stop me from giving interviews , but they seemed so far removed from what we were actually trying to do .
5 All the information collected so far contributes to the reconstruction of the flight right up to the time of impact .
6 Because they 're almost there — unlike previous white soul or funk aspirants like Kevin Rowland or A Certain Ratio who fell so far shod of their ambitions they inadvertently created something different , these groups have , through graft and expense , come close , and so clog the second division of pop-soul .
7 Secondly , many of the ideas presented so far derive from a particular perspective in sociology which has been subject to the criticisms noted above .
8 The examples discussed so far seem to be quite clear cases of underlexicalisation .
9 For Marx , the growth of industry promised wealth and abundance for all , but because industry had so far developed in a capitalistic way , the new-found wealth was monopolised by one class , while the mass of the working people were made poorer , not richer , by the advances in production .
10 What I had so far seen of Binbrook held no charms for me — it was bare , isolated , and I did n't really want to seek out yet another Met Office with another set of people to get to know , now that the war was over , and there was no reason that I could see for us to continue plotting charts and reading instruments .
11 Kind he might be , although it seemed improbable from what she had so far seen of him , but Sally-Anne wanted nothing from men , neither kindness … nor love … nor anything .
12 Neither of her parents were church-goers and her father had so far lapsed from his native Catholicism as to despise and detest ‘ the whole primitive priestly caboodle ’ , as he called it .
13 The Home Office said one company had so far applied for a licence .
14 Romantic dreams and sexual callisthenics , chivalry and rape , roses and semen , chocolate boxes and contraceptives … but most of all , never entirely out of his embattled mind , slowly dragged the shapes of the thousands of words he had so far composed on that day and the thousands he had yet to compose by candle light through the remainder of the bitterly cold night .
15 She had so far relented towards Betty that she did not wish to see her disappointed .
16 Everything that I had so far learned about him — except the conflicting stories of his drinking habits — seemed diametrically opposed to the slick business morality of Ingard and his associates and to the way-out politics of his daughter 's husband .
17 Mr Hill said attempts by Liverpool to start discussions between the two airport companies had so far come to nothing .
18 As yet without a record deal , Charlie had so far concentrated on live gigs .
19 Absent also was Leofwine , who had taken Thorfinn for King as Cormac had , or so it seemed , on the glorious journey to and from Rome , and who had stood trembling as Cormac had on the steps of St Peter 's , one of a brotherhood that had seemed to promise a future none of them had so far dreamed of .
20 Those X-rays , that had taken so long to photograph , that lengthy session when I had got so friendly with the big machine , had so far resulted in nothing .
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