Example sentences of "so far [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The role of specific acetyltransferase activity in Crohn 's disease patients has not been so far studied , and deserves investigation . |
| 2 | A neutron activation analysis study of these ceramics ( such as the pharmacy bottle in Figure 6.4 ) has so far tested pieces known to be local products from over twenty maiolica centres in Italy . |
| 3 | Arbitrage opportunities have been found in all the markets so far tested . |
| 4 | No one has so far questioned the judgement that ‘ Montini 's letter is the single most important document for understanding not only the first session but the whole Vatican Council ’ . |
| 5 | EQUITY & LAW , The Netherlands ' 60ft yacht skippered by Dirk Nauta , yesterday became the first of the smaller boats and 15th so far to finish the first leg of the Whitbread Round the World Race to Punta del Este in Uruguay . |
| 6 | The continued advertising and promotion of tobacco should be strenuously resisted , yet the government has not so far seemed inclined to upset the tobacco lobby . |
| 7 | We have so far limited our interpretation of " style " and " stylistics " to match the kind of activity in which we wish to engage : the study of language as used in literary texts , with the aim of relating it to its artistic functions . |
| 8 | ‘ The only way we can set about obtaining some is to raise the public profile of the case , which is so far limited to the bald facts of your husband 's murder . ’ |
| 9 | The taskforce has so far charged 544 defendants and won 385 convictions . |
| 10 | Neither of her parents were church-goers and her father had so far lapsed from his native Catholicism as to despise and detest ‘ the whole primitive priestly caboodle ’ , as he called it . |
| 11 | FORTNUM & Mason , the Piccadilly store which has so far shrugged off the effects of recession , yesterday warned that it will be difficult to maintain profits in the 12 months to July . |
| 12 | Although this event would signify the end not merely of another king in the nation , but of a dynasty which had so far extended unbroken into prehistory , no one had any idea just when it would take place . |
| 13 | At this stage it is so far extended as to receive a supply of sand from the original barchan even during the prevailing wind , X. Thus it will continue to grow both during the prevailing wind , X , and the strong wind , Y , with slip faces developed on the side away from the strong wind . |
| 14 | The arts collaboration practices I have so far observed have been inadequate models of curriculum practice . |
| 15 | Though not so far observed , this version of the Ikeda instability is of interest because it can be derived by mean field methods , which otherwise preclude chaos . |
| 16 | Genetic studies have established that the mutations so far characterized belong to probably four different complementation groups and that some of them are recessive ( 8–15 ) . |
| 17 | Margaret Thatcher 's government so far refuses to listen to these ideas . |
| 18 | Gerry Grimstone , a director of Schroders , the Government 's merchant bank for the water flotations , claimed that the response so far had been extremely encouraging , with interest spread broadly across the country and ‘ no signs of an investor strike ’ in any of the regions . |
| 19 | The journey so far had been an eye-opener . |
| 20 | He said the police were talking to everyone Angie had seen in the two weeks before she … well … vanished , and so far had come up with nothing . |
| 21 | West Indies had won the three-Test series 2–0 , yet so far had never played a one-day international against anyone , so the balance between form and experience seemed a neat one ; and so it proved . |
| 22 | The role of Highlander in this project so far had not just been as a catalyst , nor a co-ordinating agency for the network — though this in itself is a vital role — but also as a meeting place for the widely scattered groups which came to the Center to hold regular training workshops . |
| 23 | His life so far had been crowded with people , familiar but not friends , guardians like Fiery or the nurserymaids , boys at school or companions chosen for him . |
| 24 | Victory , perhaps to their own surprise , now seemed almost within the invaders ' grasp but at a Council of War , held at the prince 's headquarters in Exeter House , Derby , on the morning of Thursday 5 December , Lord George Murray , whose tactics so far had been masterly , astounded his fellow-commanders by remarking that ‘ the first thing to be spoken of was how far it was prudent to advance further ’ . |
| 25 | Every invasion attempt so far had foundered on France 's naval weakness , but after the end of the Seven Years War in 1763 de Choiseul had put in hand a whole series of reforms . |
| 26 | A burly constable was already standing by the public telephone , and no-one so far had been sufficiently intrepid as to approach him . |
| 27 | Her only brush with the topic so far had been a visit to Mortimer 's Hole at Nottingham Castle . |
| 28 | The treatment so far had been innocuous : quinine pills and injections of alum water . |
| 29 | The voice that could reach with ease to the upper gallery of the Shield Theatre sounded in the Holborn drawing-room , calling attention to the silent young man who had arrived with the Professor but so far had not said a word . |
| 30 | Mr O'Connor said the campaign so far had taken a lot of time and effort , with mixed results . |