Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [verb] [adv] far " in BNC.
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| 1 | In kung fu one should never allow a technique to extend so far as to be impracticable . |
| 2 | No German records relating to such a formation have so far been found , but it is possible that they were aircraft of III/ZG 26 . |
| 3 | So always after that I would make sure I had a job to do as far away as possible from the scene , because it upset me a lot . |
| 4 | What he really wants is a business of the inside and outside of his head , in this case of his ‘ alone ’ juxtaposed with the authorial ‘ loneliness and estrangement ’ : a rich relationship , not a flat contradiction or dead end , a relationship which evokes and nurses a distinction established as far back as The Double , between false solitude ( ‘ loneliness and estrangement ’ ) and true solitude which is the obverse of true society and meaningless without it . |
| 5 | Research in the social sciences as a whole has so far done little to establish the relative strength of the effects of past and present on self-esteem . |
| 6 | They found that £15 or £20 a week went as far in an erstwhile fishing village on Spain 's Costa Brava as it did at an English seaside hotel or holiday camp , with cheap wine and reliable sunshine thrown in . |
| 7 | A harmonic got as far as Hrun himself , currently fighting a couple of gnolls on a crumbling ledge high in the Caderack Mountains , and caused him a moment 's unexplained discomfort . |
| 8 | Its characteristics are personal acquisitiveness , set free by generous tax cuts for the rich and a licensed pursuit of the fast buck ; markets , including foreign exchange , left unfettered to bestow their dynamism on the economy ; a state rolled as far back as is electorally tenable ; and a participatory capitalism , based on profit rather than ownership , where almost anything is a commodity to be traded . |
| 9 | ‘ May not a man go too far in this study , and overvalue his progress so far , as to think nothing out of his reach ? ’ |
| 10 | ‘ May not a man go too far in this study , and overvalue his progress so far , as to think nothing out of his reach ? ’ |
| 11 | Above all , a pension seems so far away when you are in your twenties and thirties . |
| 12 | It may seem paradoxical , but New Historicism 's acknowledgement of a great complexity and subtlety between text and history and its hesitancy to make generalised claims for a culture has so far produced critical analysis of texts which tend to be recognisably similar to one another . |
| 13 | The nun who admitted them appeared to be covered from head to foot apart from her eyes , nose , and mouth , for after she had bolted the gate behind them she tucked her bare hands into her sleeves , then led the way up a gravel path , on either side of which a lawn extended as far as a further high , stone wall , its top also embedded with glass . |
| 14 | But this has a history stretching as far back … well , to tell you the truth — to when records began . |
| 15 | Efforts to secure a ceasefire have so far failed to halt the clashes , which began when Serb nationalists launched an offensive to carve out a separate state which would be attached to a truncated Yugoslavia after Bosnia won international recognition . |
| 16 | Although parts of Sun , such as Sun Federal , have reportedly been flirting with IXI , Sun headquarters has clearly labelled the firm a competitor going so far as to put a last-minute kibosh on a real estate deal that would have moved IXI headquarters in Cambridge , England into Sun UK 's offices as a tenant . |
| 17 | There is often a tendency to stand too far back in an attempt to approach footstraps : this makes lots of fast-sounding gurgling noises in the water behind you but does nothing for board speed . |
| 18 | Attempts throughout the day to coax an escaped owl down from the roof of a house have so far failed . |
| 19 | It was inconvenient for a villager to walk that far to report a theft , especially since he often had to make the trip several times if he wanted to complete a prosecution . |