Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] far [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We do not yet know much about this but the brain is so powerful and complex that it is very unlikely that any of the analyses proposed so far bear much resemblance to this reality ; they are too heavily influenced by the theoretician 's preoccupation with economy , elegance and simplicity . |
| 2 | Pakistan and the United States would eventually have to accept direct talks with the PDPA , he said , adding that neither country had so far implemented any peace process . |
| 3 | I had heard stories , including horrendous tales of harassment by the police from other people in the black community but my family and I had so far escaped such treatment . |
| 4 | He had already clearly laid down his view in his opening speech to the session , in which he recognised that perestroika had so far made little impact on the acute social and economic crisis . |
| 5 | I wanted to continue my studies as a postgraduate at U.C.L. I was now interested in modern linguistic research , but knew very little about it , since linguistics had so far made little impact in the U.K. , and there was no teacher in the Department who could adequately supervise me in that area . |
| 6 | The silhouette , instantly recognisable by its wide hips and shaggy curls , was David Murray , an older boy in the House who had so far taken little notice of the latest royal presence in the school . |
| 7 | Yet several weeks into the scandal , the New Yorker complained that the mess had so far mocked all attempts to baptize it . |
| 8 | The trouble was that the land belonged to a family who lived in London and owned parcels of land all over the country and had so far resisted all attempts to relinquish this innocuous piece of British soil . |
| 9 | President Bush for his part stressed the importance of progress under the bilateral Structural Impediments Initiative ( SII ) talks , the third round of which had taken place on Feb. 22-23 between US and Japanese trade officials , but which had so far produced little concrete progress toward the elimination of what the USA termed Japan 's unfair import barriers . |