Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] far [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She reported that there was a general feeling of satisfaction with the standard of publicity that the Year had received so far from the media . |
| 2 | It was then that the Dwarves came to him , fed him , warmed him in their mansions and asked his purpose , for no mortal man had ever travelled so far into the mountains . |
| 3 | The emphasis which has been placed so far on the curriculum is intentional . |
| 4 | Political prosecutions and political imprisonment may be deemed so far in the past as to be without modern day relevance . |
| 5 | All the arguments considered so far against the use of portfolio-grid analysis of the McKinsey-GE type are , in my view , better seen as warnings about simplistic use of the technique rather than as indicating fundamental flaws in it . |
| 6 | ‘ I 've come too far from the ways of men to be able to go back now … but we must get away from that sea ! ’ |
| 7 | Those seen so far by the Guardian are highly unflattering . |
| 8 | It was the biggest house he had seen so far in the village . |
| 9 | The seaside resorts in the North-West of England , as elsewhere , could not have grown very far without the railways … |
| 10 | Performance falls , for example , if inspectors are pushed too far by the pressure to get aircraft back in the air and earning money . |
| 11 | ‘ I have n't even got that far in the analysis of this new theory but it only adds to my doubts about it all anyway . |
| 12 | Much against their natural inclinations , Jesus 's earthly followers were gradually persuaded that far from the Friday being the disastrous and final demise of their hero , by some inexplicable divine miracle he had dealt death itself a death-blow , and had risen from the grave to a new and everlasting life-form . |
| 13 | ‘ Marty Quinn and myself have been trying to rebuild the side and , considering the turnover in players , it 's all the more pleasing to have got this far in the cup . |
| 14 | In use , the pack is held on to the tool by a single metal strap , but the pack is recessed so far into the machine that this was perfectly stable . |
| 15 | The British had retreated so far from the position they had held at Chicago that Sir William Hildred and Sir Henry Self , in charge of the British delegation , were afraid that they would be overruled by the Air Ministry and BOAC . |
| 16 | I told her my name , who I was , and that you were old , but in good health , and had journeyed very far into the wood . |
| 17 | Thus , although non-Muslim monotheists , like the Christians and the Jews , had not travelled as far along the road to truth as the Muslims , they were travelling in the same direction . |
| 18 | Many of the tips provided so far for the management of children have been relevant for adolescents . |
| 19 | Sweden is the latest country to suffer from criminals fiddling with mobile phones to re-direct bills — thousands of phones were stolen , altered and sold back to the market as ‘ no charge phones ’ : 10 people have been arrested so far for the crime , which came to light when some subscribers reported bills of $70,000 more than they were expecting ; police said that some of the men arrested were associated with the the Swedish state phone company Televerket and L M Ericsson Telefon AB , Reuter reports from Stockholm . |
| 20 | In considering mentally disordered people 's needs , we have focused so far on the individual rather than on the family . |
| 21 | It is the only thing that he has followed so far in the debate . |
| 22 | His statement was considered to have gone sufficiently far towards an apology to have enraged many nationalists within his own party , without having satisfied those who demanded a clear-cut official apology as a key part of an acceptance of responsibility for initiating the Pacific War . |
| 23 | Such alarm calls can help us to wake up sooner , before we have been swept too far into the groove of sulkiness , paranoia or self-pity . |
| 24 | To revert to my opening discussion for a moment , one might say that the conflict between the drives of the id and the demands of the cultural superego represented above all in the taboos on incest and aggression against the father has become severely exacerbated and that , if Freud felt that in his day the balance was too far on the side of society and the superego , today it has swung too far in the direction of the individual and the id ; for it is clear that a balance between these two opposing fundamental forces is the essence of human existence . |
| 25 | When Newton had progressed that far in the programme , following a path that had presented itself as more or less necessary from the outset , he began to be concerned about the match between his theory and observation . |
| 26 | Had Keynes gone too far down the road of attempting to accommodate many of the central tenets of classical economics within the framework of his own theory of employment ? |
| 27 | The good news is that the most common infestation , by the woodworm — or anobium punctatum or furniture beetle , call it what you will — can be treated , so long as it has not gone too far into the timbers , at a cost of a few hundred pounds . |
| 28 | There are those who do indeed believe ( as we have seen , with some justification in terms of legal precedent ) that matters have already gone too far in the direction of a United States of Europe for the process to be stopped from reaching its federal point of destination . |
| 29 | Why , in Oxford , has it been left so far to the police , the voluntary sector and private sponsorship to try to cobble together a scheme ? |
| 30 | The buildings identified so far within the town would imply a fairly dense distribution . |