Example sentences of "[adv] far [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The origin of Blakeney Point is open to discussion : it has been suggested that the western end may have been a feature comparable with Scolt Head Island and later joined to the mainland by a simple spit growing westwards from Weybourne : it may have developed entirely as a spit such as Orford Ness or Hurst Castle Spit , which will be described below ; or the whole feature may represent an offshore bar driven so far inshore as to become attached to the coast . |
| 2 | It was difficult to x-ray his leg so far up , and as it was a small machine and needed a relatively long exposure it was hard to get a clear picture with him shaking as the poor boy was doing by this time . |
| 3 | There is a place so far up there is no down . |
| 4 | At least back when I lived in a hole I knew everything there was to know about living in a hole , and now it 's a year later and I 'm at a place so far away I do n't even know how far away it is , watching something I do n't understand go to a place so far up there is no down . |
| 5 | If I were to tell you that this record puts a dayglo platform DM so far up the mule 's rectum that its entrails squish through its clenched teeth , I do n't think that I could be justly accused of exaggeration . |
| 6 | A little transistor with a tin spike for an aerial was useless so far up the valley . |
| 7 | He considered buying a cake to eat , but while he was thinking about it he kept on walking , and thought it would look stupid to turn back so far up the street , so he did n't , though at the thought his stomach suddenly rumbled . |
| 8 | I 'm so far up the creek myself that when they throw the book at me it 'll be the whole library . |
| 9 | Aye er and er I got to the now on the and steamers go so far up , past Le Havre at the mouth Le Havre we disembarked when we went out to France first time and we took guns and all sorts . |
| 10 | ‘ She is now so far up the beach and has suffered so much damage that it would be physically impossible to get her off , ’ said Orkney 's Marine Pollution Officer , Captain Bob Sclater . |
| 11 | A big problem for the liberals is that recent immigrants from China , who make almost half of the population , have so far not been greatly moved by ideals of democracy . |
| 12 | These missiles have so far not been used because the Phnom Penh airforce has not yet deployed its Soviet helicopters and recently acquired MIG 21 jets in combat . |
| 13 | So far not one deal has materialised . |
| 14 | Manufacturing , which bore the brunt of the deep 1981 recession , is so far not badly scathed . |
| 15 | It is just that politicians in power do show a tendency to become rather bogged down by the business in hand , and battered women , ill-educated toddlers and the tax status of child-minders have , for perfectly understandable reasons , so far not succeeded in exercising their imaginations . |
| 16 | I replied I had not , since I had been lucky enough so far not to have been forced to fight for my survival . |
| 17 | Recognition , however , has so far not proved easy . |
| 18 | The challenge to take hold of the world and mould it into the Utopia so desired has so far not been seen by humanity to be what it is . |
| 19 | However , as a political issue , it has so far not been properly thrashed out . |
| 20 | At the company 's annual meeting , executives from CGI Informatique SA , developer of the Pacbase software engineering system , said fiscal 1993 has so far not lived up to expectations , and indicated that the company will be considering either an acquisition or joint venture in the facilities management market . |
| 21 | The advent of distributed computing and the changing nature of the massively parallel market itself demands new programming flexibility , which Fortran77 has so far not addressed . |
| 22 | However , it does highlight a major problem that we have so far not considered — some would argue it is the major reason why interagency cooperation is so difficult — and that is lack of resources . |
| 23 | The advent of distributed computing and the changing nature of the massively parallel market itself demands new programming flexibility , which Fortran77 has so far not addressed . |
| 24 | Coral Springs , Florida-based Citrix Systems Inc has so far not made much of an impact in the market with its multi-user versions of personal computer operating systems , notably the Multiuser version of OS/2 , which uses code licensed from Microsoft Corp — but Microsoft reckons that the company may have something anyway , and has now signed a ‘ strategic alliance ’ agreement with Citrix . |
| 25 | The word serves to remind us of the importance of that element so far not introduced into the discussion : diplomacy . |
| 26 | We have examined Lord Lumley … but he has so far not only failed to prove a single alibi , [ also ] on cross-examination his case would seem to have completely broken down . |
| 27 | While not denying the clinical value of the EEG as a non-invasive technique it is probably fair to conclude that electro-physiological research has so far not contributed anything new to our knowledge of cerebral asymmetry but rather has corroborated findings from other areas of investigation . |
| 28 | But this shift should be seen in the context of the total demands of the elderly on resources which appears not to have risen so fast ; they have so far not been a dependent burden of significant dimensions despite their growing numbers , though as Thomson points out , this could change in coming years . |
| 29 | In conclusion , Owens ( 1984 ) has commented that the 1980s have been characterized so far not by significant conceptual developments , but by a further widening of the empirical base . |
| 30 | Because these constructions were both eliminated at an early stage of the transformation to normal form , we have so far not needed any such laws . |