Example sentences of "have [verb] [adv] far [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The project that has gone quite far has had every chance of success but has failed and therefore has demonstrated its inadequacy . |
| 3 | Even if progress is slower than expected , and it may not be , nothing that has happened so far gainsays General Colin Powell 's claim after six days of fighting that the allies , unopposed in the air , are systematically dismantling Saddam Hussein 's ability to wage war , and doing so at remarkably small cost to themselves . |
| 4 | Yet , despite numerous rows with the contractors , he has failed so far to tinker with the construction contract to any meaningful degree . |
| 5 | They wo n't have to travel so far to work . |
| 6 | It was an uneasy night , pondering the risks of leaving illegally , with a barely seaworthy vessel , from an island of which we had read so fondly in Wallace and had come so far to see . |
| 7 | We had come so far to find this . |
| 8 | Much of what he had seen so far confirmed the assessment of the Imperial survey — that the stage of development Tarvaras had reached was equivalent to that which was thought to have existed during the Terran medieval period . |
| 9 | As she lost the thread entirely , all thought of telling him the work she had done so far went out of her head . |
| 10 | sort of everything we 've had so far 's been pretty general . |
| 11 | Come 's stint on the toilet trail may be short-lived if the critical hoo-hah they 've elicited thus far translates into sales , but actually this is a band better suited than most to the world 's more fetid punk rock bunkers . |
| 12 | Lerroux , believing that the pendulum had swung too far left in 1931–3 , was now hoping to draw irreversibly into the Republican fold the conservative forces largely represented by the CEDA . |
| 13 | Oh please , thought Grainne , please let it be that , for I have come so far to find it . |
| 14 | The sticky price models we have considered so far tend merely to ‘ tack on ’ the assumption of sticky prices to the sort of model developed in chapter 4 . |
| 15 | All the semantic tallies we have considered so far have been what might be termed pure tallies , in that they have no perceptible semantic connection with any other elements in the language . |
| 16 | Nothing the Conservatives have said so far has caught my fancy , still less warmed my heart ; or , I am glad to say , shocked me to the core . |
| 17 | This is the real point which lies at the heart of the present appeal ; in a sense , everything which I have said so far has done no more than set the stage for its consideration . |
| 18 | The privatisation proposals we have seen so far look very inadequate and are likely to decrease rail 's share of the market , if anything . |
| 19 | enable your opponent to abandon a commitment by : describing all the concessions you have made so far suggesting that the circumstances have changed blaming some other party or situation for the present position , such as the government , another union , the economy , the personnel department suggesting that somehow there has been a misunderstanding referring the whole matter to another individual or group . |
| 20 | Contributions which he and his workmates have made so far exceed a splendid £1,576 . |
| 21 | In such circumstances we may not describe a band as being due to a single local mode , and the empirical methods we have used so far break down . |
| 22 | Adventurers who have got this far deserve some hefty magical rewards for their efforts , especially if they have overcome the Great Enchanter himself . |
| 23 | Those who have escaped so far wait nervously , fearing the worst . |
| 24 | I agree with all the right hon. and hon. Members who said — I think that almost all who have spoken so far made this point — that it is very important to give Czechoslovakia , Hungary and Poland the prospect of joining the Community at least by the end of the decade , and to give them every possible assistance in meeting the economic and political conditions for membership as soon as possible . |
| 25 | The industrial machine that we have followed so far has been the philosophies of the Enlightenment embodied and incarnated in the economic mode of capitalism . |
| 26 | Many of the sort of examples I have cited so far have been pushed aside by theorising palaeontologists with the disparaging term " facies fossils " . |
| 27 | What we have achieved so far has been extremely good , so we want more of it . |
| 28 | What you have expressed so far leads me to believe that you totally agree with the concept of ethnic cleansing concentration camps because , unfortunately , such bigoted homophobia suggests equally bigoted sexism , racism and nationalism . |
| 29 | Erm and so far well I 'm certainly willing to confess that I took these away full of good intentions and have have so far carried around this torn up copy of the Greater London Green Party for months . |
| 30 | Over 400 food premises which have failed so far to register with Langbaurgh Council could face heavy fines unless they do so by April 3 . |