Example sentences of "[prep] so far " in BNC.

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1 They said they had decided to stop counselling , because they felt they needed to think about and digest what they had talked about so far .
2 All we 've talked about so far is drinking and lying on a beach .
3 But do remember , what we 've talked about so far is the Sale Of Goods Act .
4 Looking for two points not many can do at meetings as long as you pass it up there 's two points , two important points that we have n't talked about so far and there in the reasons why we do it they 're in there somewhere .
5 Now based on what we 've talked about so far today can you recognize any that you probably did n't think you 'd got ?
6 So what I 'm , what I 'm sa , saying now is this , that based on what we talked about so far
7 There who are they talking about so far anyway it 's not Kenneth Clarke or Brian Clough or Dennis McCarthy or er D H Lawrence or John Major or Martin Brandon Bravo or the Sheriff .
8 What 's that book about so far , Orgady ?
9 And , in a sense , we 've , just to complete what we 've been talking about so far , there 's always the question of press and magazines and house style , just to remind you that you really need to study formats if you 're going to try and as a freelance we talked about that yesterday .
10 And in the pursuit he came up to King Yucef , and smote him three times : but the King escaped from under the sword , for the horse of the Cid passed on in his course , and when he turned , the King being on a fleet horse , was far off , so that he might not be overtaken ; and he got into a Castle called Guyera , for so far did the Christians pursue them , smiting and slaying , and giving them no respite , so that hardly fifteen thousand escaped of fifty that they were .
11 We can not be sure that they do so directly for so far no adult eel has been caught in mid-Atlantic .
12 Only £21.6 billion of the total has been accounted for so far , leaving 42 per cent outstanding with just two months of the financial year to go .
13 The fact that certain strategies which can be shown to be useful in translation have not been made use of so far suggests that translators are simply not aware of them , rather than that they are familiar with them but consciously or subconsciously choose not to use them .
14 He was established as a lecturer in natural philosophy at Edinburgh University for many years , but it was not until the age of fifty-eight that his first publication is recorded , when his work on the structure of crystals culminated in his report ‘ on a method of so far increasing the divergence of the two rays in a calcareous spar that only one image may be seen at a time ’ ( Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal , vol. vi , 1829 ) .
15 of other things so er so that 's er seems like so far so good almost
16 The wheels are of the best construction , having wooden felloes six inches deep , with strong iron centre pieces , and the inconvenience arising from sudden concussion has been guarded against so far as possible by the finest description of buffer springs .
17 ‘ I suborned Aubrey Rivington into so far forgetting his professional integrity as to give me an illicit copy of that photograph .
18 The request that you have done me the honour to make , to receive the record of my voice , is one that I cheerfully comply with so far as lies in my power ; though I lament to say that the voice which I transmit to you is only the relic of an organ the employment of which has been overstrained .
19 The promise is to provide standards transparency instead of picking one ( or any of the five million we 've come up with so far ) .
20 The promise is to provide standards transparency instead of picking one ( or any of the 5m we 've come up with so far ) .
21 ‘ He fits your theory better than anyone we 've come up with so far . ’
22 Certainly we should n't re-issue anything until after the next meeting but erm , having the procedures we have finished with so far , in their latest form probably helpful , even if it 's only you whose has the master copy Simon right so when we need some reference , we have got that chapter and verse .
23 What I found , though , was that what appeared to be a very good erm system from an ideal point of view was actually terribly hard to cope with so far as the teachers were concerned .
24 That 's all I 've got onto so far !
25 He disobeyed Baudelaire 's instruction to be partial , or obeyed it only in so far as he took a stand against conservative taste .
26 But this was a drama , the story of the circumstances of Van Gogh 's life ; ‘ No attempt has been made , ’ wrote Meier-Graefe , ‘ to make a critical analysis of the pictures , which enter upon the scene only in so far as they concern the drama directly or indirectly . ’
27 The republicanism of Irish socialist nationalists was of course logical in so far as they interpreted imperialism as an enemy of the indigenous population and as an expropriator of the people .
28 It indicates that a real change did eventually take place after all , in so far as freedom of information and the inappropriateness of direct consultation without public mediation eventually became accepted as something which , at worst , had to be risked and something which , at best , formed an essential task of the construction of a Christian conscience in a Christian society .
29 After the initial impetus has run out , he wrote , and before one has got in so far that it is easier to finish than to go back , it is then that it becomes hard to be sure of your footing , hard to know why you are doing what you are doing , hard to know if you are doing correctly what you are doing .
30 The karate bout has some similarities with a boxing match in so far as both contestants move around the ring exchanging blows .
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