Example sentences of "the [noun] so far [vb -s] " in BNC.

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1 The response so far has been promising .
2 Much of the funding so far has come from the US , through the Environmental Protection Agency , the Agency for International Development , and the US World Wide Fund for Nature 's conservation fund .
3 One of the major tenets of the mental models theory of text comprehension is that the model of the text so far provides ( part of ) the context for understanding the current sentence .
4 Over the past few years we have been working on such an account , and in this paper we focus on the implications of this account for a central tenet of the mental models approach : that the mental model of the text so far provides ( part of the context for the interpretation of the current sentence or clause .
5 In this paper we have outlined two lines of research that address the question of exactly how the mental model of the text so far provides ( part of ) the context for interpreting the current sentence .
6 Despite a successful reduction of the budget deficit [ see p. 38020 for 1991 budget ] , the report cautioned that " much of the progress so far has resulted from buoyant economic activity rather than from structural reforms in the economy " and argued in favour of further deregulation of the economy .
7 The accent so far has been on production and we need to spread its use in the commercial , R&T and other support functions .
8 I say this because the Sloth so far has done nothing and it appears he does n't plan to do anything except now he is reading a James Michener book .
9 Everyone who 's commented on the album so far reckons it 's pretty melancholy , but I do n't see it like that at all .
10 Everyone who 's commented on the album so far reckons it 's pretty melancholy , but I do n't see it like that at all .
11 Prestel Education started its own software service in the Autumn term of 1985 and the feedback so far suggests that this is a service which schools find most welcome .
12 For the work so far has limited itself to scientific and technical problems , neglecting political and legal issues .
13 Some dissemination of the work so far has already taken place with presentations at the annual meeting of the Association for Science Education and at Oxford University Department of Educational Studies .
14 The tenor of the work so far indicates my view that any account of the rise to prominence of black sportsmen in Britain is hollow unless constant reference is made to the social conditions amidst which black people lived and live .
15 It 's not quite as good as the bonking ladybirds that preceded it , but every single ad in the campaign so far has been a gem .
16 When we say that the response of the Community so far has been ineffectual , that is not a comment on the team spirit and competence of that monitoring force .
17 The government had hoped that left wing councils , especially those in the inner cities , would lose their schools , but the evidence so far does not bear this out .
18 However , the evidence so far suggests that it is not enough to persuade businesspeople that rates will really be fixed forever .
19 The evidence so far suggests that the interviewers will fail .
20 These activities were presumably far more common than the evidence so far suggests , given the widespread use of leather .
21 However , the evidence so far suggests that bats are using the technique , not to distinguish an echo from the original sound that produced it , but for the more subtle task of distinguishing echoes from other echoes .
22 The evidence so far has ‘ left , uncertain or obscure considerable areas of importance , ’ he said .
23 … He explains that the day so far has been pretty typical .
24 Headline of the week so far comes from Reuter , which says MICROSOFT SHIPS WIDOWS IN JAPANESE , but the truth is that Microsoft Corp said the Japanese-language edition of the Windows operating system version 3.1 is now being shipped , adding that it is the first retail version for personal computers to be introduced in Japan , and that 24 of the OEM customers supporting Windows in Japan are offering it pre-installed and preconfigured on their machines as part of Microsoft 's Windows Ready-to-Run programme ; Microsoft is also set with Windows 3.1 in Korean and Chinese .
25 The argument so far has been intended to put forward the possibility that an art work or image could be official and coercive , and unofficial and subversive , all at the same time .
26 The argument so far has been that since meaning is indeterminate at the non-observational level , translation must be too .
27 The generosity of people in the area so far gives them good cause to believe that they will succeed again over the next 12 months .
28 ‘ It 's a shame that much of the debate so far has focused on rents because this is not really the issue .
29 The planning so far has taken into account the needs of the strategic company plan and the opportunities for achieving it in terms of products and markets .
30 Such ‘ abuse ’ on the list so far has n't overstepped the bounds of general footie fan decency etc ( with the possible exception of that memorable bout of Humphries v Donnelly a month or so back : - )
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