Example sentences of "[adv] so far " in BNC.
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| 1 | This decision met with considerable resistance from our East German colleagues , and in the end , the only way to overcome this was to steer clear so far as was possible of the art historical minefield that exists in Germany . |
| 2 | Statutory services have , however , done little so far to encourage the development of such services , even though they can bring very significant emotional benefits to individuals , particularly those living alone or who are estranged from their families . |
| 3 | The Council , the longest so far , moved to Rome in 1442 and came to an end , while the rump of the Basle gathering gradually faded away . |
| 4 | Yet , as if some kind of mathematical progression took hold of him , Johnson 's accounts of the several places in which he found himself , get longer , with Raasay the longest so far . |
| 5 | ‘ If this is a false dawn , it is the longest so far , ’ he said . |
| 6 | Turtle Island who won at Royal Ascot , Leopardstown and York has done most so far but at this point in time I could n't make up my mind between Turtle Island and my other two big race winners , State Performer and Stonehatch . |
| 7 | ‘ It 's impossible to say what might be a fair mark on what Soft Day 's achieved , but he 's a nice horse and has done everything right so far , ’ he said . |
| 8 | " You 've done all right so far , Ian , and I do n't see that we could do any better . |
| 9 | All right so far … |
| 10 | How many have got them all right so far ? |
| 11 | How many have got them all right so far then ? |
| 12 | One might suppose it was already quite strong even if nothing else was done , especially so far as CD-ROM is concerned . |
| 13 | You can say : " I would like to open up this discussion and involve members of the meeting who have not spoken much so far . " |
| 14 | I 've enjoyed myself very much so far — with my work . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I have n't been able to do too much so far . |
| 16 | But erm the lads have got together and Clarkie scored erm four goals today so , we have n't missed him so much so far . |
| 17 | And yet , as may be seen from the cardinal importance he attaches to a Herodotean term like the peri - plus , Pound can be invoked by poets for whom the natural subjectmatter is topographical rather than historical , or at any rate historical only so far as history is checked against , and embodied in , and qualified by , topography . |
| 18 | Our knowledge is bounded by our ideas , and extends only so far as they are ideas of real essences . |
| 19 | The observer 's readiness to modify is admirably honest ( Mr Palomar is a nice man ) and ultimately exhausting : the process of adjustment can go only so far before atrophy threatens . |
| 20 | It falls foul of one of the cardinal principles of the law of trusts : the principle of benefit , which states that a person can be validly appointed a trustee only so far as he has received benefits intended by the settlor under the settlor 's will . |
| 21 | The air supply is restricted so the combustion zone can spread only so far . |
| 22 | Paschal 's grant of 1103 certainly extended the primacy to Anselm 's successors , but only so far as it had been ‘ enjoyed by Anselm 's predecessors ’ . |
| 23 | The Evangelical party will perhaps continue to exalt their hero as partially as parties always do — but the members of it will act thus only so far as they are possessed by party spirit , rather than by the pure spirit of the doctrines which they hold in common with their so-called Catholic opponents , whom adversaries style popish . |
| 24 | Even in the new Latin America , it seems , the commitment to free trade goes only so far . |
| 25 | But only so far as this : that the Pioneers did not in fact succeed in creating the Manufacturing Society as a Co-operative . |
| 26 | Furthermore s. 2(4) European Communities Act 1972 provides that any Act of the Westminster Parliament shall be presumed not to conflict with EEC legislation , and will be given effect only so far as it does not conflict with the EEC legislation . |
| 27 | We should proceed beyond the immediate results of experience only so far as legitimate inductions will take us . |
| 28 | Sometimes the Constitution limits the executive or subordinate local bodies ; sometimes it limits the legislature also , but only so far as amendment of the Constitution itself is concerned ; and sometimes it imposes restrictions upon the legislature which go far beyond this point and forbid it to make laws upon certain subjects or in a certain way or with certain effects . |
| 29 | The best advice is : aim at concentrating all your intelligence on the specific question , and bring in your knowledge only so far as it is relevant . |
| 30 | An organisation will be effective only so far as it helps individual members to achieve their own personal objectives , and a large part of the task of management is therefore concerned with this problem . |