Example sentences of "[adv] far [verb] [be] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A burly constable was already standing by the public telephone , and no-one so far had been sufficiently intrepid as to approach him . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Unfortunately , the spatial resolution of the best radar images so far obtained is too poor to have revealed such tell-tale signs . |
| 4 | The evidence so far gathered is very inadequate , so we could not be sure , but there does seem to be some tendency to concentrate . |
| 5 | Responses so far have been most encouraging . |
| 6 | The results achieved so far have been most impressive . |
| 7 | … He explains that the day so far has been pretty typical . |
| 8 | The view from the back seat so far has been quite encouraging . |
| 9 | What we have achieved so far has been extremely good , so we want more of it . |
| 10 | sort of everything we 've had so far 's been pretty general . |
| 11 | A famous one was dropping Ramadhin before the third Test in Australia and replacing him with Gibbs , whose Test career thus far had been fairly ordinary ; Gibbs took eight wickets in the match to see his team home and was under way as a real Test bowler . |