Example sentences of "have [adv] [verb] [adv] far " in BNC.
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| 1 | Primitive , that is pre-literate , societies of the present period also exhibit restrictions on the instincts , but have less physical security because technology has not developed so far . |
| 2 | However the government has not gone as far as it might have . |
| 3 | In some areas , mechanisation is replacing labour although in the countryside this has not gone as far as on North American farms . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | If the work has not gone too far , there is often some blank page , or part of one , where these can be noted ; otherwise they will normally be printed on a special slip or leaf which can be ‘ tipped-in ’ ( lightly attached by glue or paste at the inner edge ) . |
| 6 | The Welsh Health Planning Forum has developed differential targets along these lines for the NHS in Wales , but in general the rest of the United Kingdom has not progressed so far . |
| 7 | It is whether the pendulum has not swung too far in the other direction , so that the vitality , resourcefulness and dynamism of the modern corporation is sinking under the weight of excessive regulatory controls . |
| 8 | The Journal has not got very far in finding out where the applications are expected to come from — or how the thing will be marketed . |
| 9 | Our intimacy has not proceeded so far . |
| 10 | The study of industry by economic historians has progressed apace , but the understanding of industry in its landscape has not advanced very far . |
| 11 | C Professor D.C. Moore has lately questioned how far the Bill was , or was ever thought to be , a concession by the aristocracy . |
| 12 | The man who , in order to understand the inner world of a cannibal tribe , has partaken of the practice of cannibalism , has probably gone too far : he can never quite be one of his own folk again . |
| 13 | Despite a massive PR job by Buckingham Palace , it looks like nothing has really changed as far as Charles and Di are concerned ! |
| 14 | ‘ It was a huge blow to their pride to discover how far behind they had fallen during isolation — yet coach John Williams has now gone too far the other way . |
| 15 | ‘ THE shareholders must be hoping the bank has n't gone as far as to give him a company credit card ’ — Labour leader John Smith , on ex-Chancellor Norman Lamont 's new employer , Rothschilds Bank . |
| 16 | But I think it was , " it has n't happened so far , so why should it ? " |
| 17 | What has n't happened so far , though , is a DOS application of the Windows environment that really feels like Windows and the integration of sound into a graphics package . |
| 18 | One ARENA spokesman has even gone so far as to suggest that there are nine to ten women in the party for every man . |
| 19 | One such protagonist has recently gone so far as to claim that Aristotle 's Phantasmata — the mental images that are involved in most or all mental activities — are identical with the symbols on which computational procedures are carried out . |
| 20 | ‘ What 's an 81 anyway , Paul — I though we 'd only got as far as 7b ? ’ |
| 21 | ‘ We 'd only got as far as having a preliminary psyche dissection on Daine , ’ said Trefusis , ‘ but the Yggdrasil probes suggest he had a similar-although far more pronounced — set of personality deformities . |
| 22 | By next morning I 'd only got as far as realising that I had to talk you round . ’ |
| 23 | The next day I was walking to work and I 'd just got as far as the hospital . |
| 24 | ‘ Well , I thought I 'd best get as far from Dalston as I could , so I came this side of London Bridge and looked for lodgings . |
| 25 | It is indeed true that balance of payments deficits can be sustained for longer than they could a generation ago ; we would have never got this far without a much worse sterling crisis if that were not the case . |
| 26 | Just what was the object of Barbara 's terror that viewers had only seen so far as a suction cup visible through a circular lens cowl ? |
| 27 | The highest nobility were only very few in numbers , so that when we speak of their hold upon military commands we must , consciously or not , include those who had inherited relatively low noble rank or who had only risen that far through their own efforts . |
| 28 | Even my wharped mind had only got as far as thinking . |
| 29 | The luxury she had only glimpsed so far was all a far cry from the fading Victorian splendour of St Margaret 's with its peeling paintwork and under-staffed , overworked departments . |
| 30 | There were those in Parliament who felt that things had already gone too far , despite the Home Secretary 's reassurances that it was too soon for legislation . |