Example sentences of "[noun pl] have [adv] far [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After ballots of parents , 215 schools have so far opted out : but another 2,000 are known to be keen to do so , given that grant-maintained status offers them money and freedom . |
| 2 | Nineteen companies have so far agreed to sign contracts with the government agreeing to fixed objectives . |
| 3 | New prototypes have so far failed to satisfy him . |
| 4 | Fortunately many of our hill railways and tramways have so far managed to escape the nightmare of the gricer archaeologists — landscaping and land reclamation — because their earthworks , light though they may be , are hard work even for modern ploughs . |
| 5 | But excavations have so far failed to support this image and indeed have indicated a town in decline . |
| 6 | But most of the 49 designated assembly points exist only on maps ; UN officials have so far surveyed only 20 of them and have not yet set up camps suitable for an organised demobilisation . |
| 7 | Foreign investment banks have so far made a big chunk of their profits from earning high interest on the 10 billion won ( $12.6m ) they must deposit to do business . |
| 8 | Heavy consumers of technology , most banks have so far used it more to automate existing ways of doing things than to invent entirely new ones . |
| 9 | Arms were offered to Allende 's Chile , but were refused , and various rumours in 1982–3 to the effect that the Argentine generals had ordered Soviet weapons have so far proved unsubstantiated . |
| 10 | According to Reuter , investors have so far spent £1,000m running cable past 2m UK homes , signing 440,000 cable TV subscribers . |
| 11 | The land , part of Westhay Moor , near Wedmore , a 100-acre Site of Special Scientific Interest , has not been managed , and all attempts to reach agreement or use legal powers have so far failed . |
| 12 | Today the pensioners still do not know if they are to get any of their money but the lawyers and accountants sorting out Maxwell 's affairs have so far run up a bill in excess of £30 million . |
| 13 | The Government and senior police officers have so far resisted calls for a ‘ ring of steel ’ , Belfast-style protection , with closed circuit television , control zones , and very restricted access . |
| 14 | The European Baroque Soloists have so far produced two Telemann discs on the Denon label . |
| 15 | Some twenty-five paintings have so far emerged either signed or as pendants to signed ones . |
| 16 | Tiny Leah Horby , who is almost two , suffers from an extremely rare condition for which surgeons have so far found no cure . |
| 17 | Bosnian Serb forces have so far refused to allow even UN military observers to go to Gorazde . |
| 18 | Observations from Earth-based telescopes have so far revealed a wealth of spectral lines , from over 50 varieties of molecules in space , some of which are operating as natural masers . |
| 19 | Poles have so far accepted yet more economic misery because they trust their Solidarity-led government . |
| 20 | Both international links have so far come to nothing — the SFE link having been effectively abandoned for the time being , and the CBoT accord never having been implemented . |
| 21 | An important point to note is that the existing theories are sometimes in conflict and the empirical tests have so far proved inconclusive . |
| 22 | The Police have so far adopted a watching waiting game … vastly outnumbered … they hoped they would gradually leave of their own accord … earlier this month … |
| 23 | Police have so far ruled out any connection between the rapes . |
| 24 | Neighbourhood Watch vigilantes have so far failed to apprehend the culprit . |
| 25 | Kerry Packer has launched a complex , lowly valued and hostile bid for Bond 's media interests whilst efforts to pass on stakes in British Satellite Broadcasting and Airship Industries have so far failed . |
| 26 | Only a trickle of progress reports have so far found their way back to Buckinghamshire 's education department , but they confirm the trend nationally of a poor overall response and turnout confined principally to a hardcore of parents , generally stalwarts of a school parent-teacher association . |
| 27 | If you have not had a child , what factors have so far prevented you ? |
| 28 | How come that only two really explicit anti-war records have so far surfaced ? |
| 29 | After the ups and downs of critical theory and fashion , the pedagogy of literary linguistics is an area into which only a few intrepid explorers have so far dared to venture , and the results here deserve to be widely and warmly welcomed . |
| 30 | The authorities have so far managed to prevent a chain reaction . |