Example sentences of "[adv] so far " in BNC.
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| 1 | This decision met with considerable resistance from our East German colleagues , and in the end , the only way to overcome this was to steer clear so far as was possible of the art historical minefield that exists in Germany . |
| 2 | Statutory services have , however , done little so far to encourage the development of such services , even though they can bring very significant emotional benefits to individuals , particularly those living alone or who are estranged from their families . |
| 3 | The Council , the longest so far , moved to Rome in 1442 and came to an end , while the rump of the Basle gathering gradually faded away . |
| 4 | Yet , as if some kind of mathematical progression took hold of him , Johnson 's accounts of the several places in which he found himself , get longer , with Raasay the longest so far . |
| 5 | ‘ If this is a false dawn , it is the longest so far , ’ he said . |
| 6 | Turtle Island who won at Royal Ascot , Leopardstown and York has done most so far but at this point in time I could n't make up my mind between Turtle Island and my other two big race winners , State Performer and Stonehatch . |
| 7 | ‘ It 's impossible to say what might be a fair mark on what Soft Day 's achieved , but he 's a nice horse and has done everything right so far , ’ he said . |
| 8 | " You 've done all right so far , Ian , and I do n't see that we could do any better . |
| 9 | All right so far … |
| 10 | How many have got them all right so far ? |
| 11 | How many have got them all right so far then ? |
| 12 | ‘ The only route to survival for those who have managed to hang on so far is to make their borrowing cheaper , substantially cheaper , ’ she said . |
| 13 | ‘ The only route to survival for those who have managed to hang on so far is to make their borrowing cheaper , substantially cheaper , ’ she said . |
| 14 | We have erm there have been certain decisions made over time which has got us to this position and whether erm you agree or anyone agrees or not the the the right next step is to specify a location , nevertheless it 's embodied in what 's gone on so far , a series of steps towards making the decision . |
| 15 | One might suppose it was already quite strong even if nothing else was done , especially so far as CD-ROM is concerned . |
| 16 | You can say : " I would like to open up this discussion and involve members of the meeting who have not spoken much so far . " |
| 17 | I 've enjoyed myself very much so far — with my work . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ I have n't been able to do too much so far . |
| 19 | But erm the lads have got together and Clarkie scored erm four goals today so , we have n't missed him so much so far . |
| 20 | And yet , as may be seen from the cardinal importance he attaches to a Herodotean term like the peri - plus , Pound can be invoked by poets for whom the natural subjectmatter is topographical rather than historical , or at any rate historical only so far as history is checked against , and embodied in , and qualified by , topography . |
| 21 | Our knowledge is bounded by our ideas , and extends only so far as they are ideas of real essences . |
| 22 | The observer 's readiness to modify is admirably honest ( Mr Palomar is a nice man ) and ultimately exhausting : the process of adjustment can go only so far before atrophy threatens . |
| 23 | It falls foul of one of the cardinal principles of the law of trusts : the principle of benefit , which states that a person can be validly appointed a trustee only so far as he has received benefits intended by the settlor under the settlor 's will . |
| 24 | The air supply is restricted so the combustion zone can spread only so far . |
| 25 | Paschal 's grant of 1103 certainly extended the primacy to Anselm 's successors , but only so far as it had been ‘ enjoyed by Anselm 's predecessors ’ . |
| 26 | The Evangelical party will perhaps continue to exalt their hero as partially as parties always do — but the members of it will act thus only so far as they are possessed by party spirit , rather than by the pure spirit of the doctrines which they hold in common with their so-called Catholic opponents , whom adversaries style popish . |
| 27 | Even in the new Latin America , it seems , the commitment to free trade goes only so far . |
| 28 | But only so far as this : that the Pioneers did not in fact succeed in creating the Manufacturing Society as a Co-operative . |
| 29 | Furthermore s. 2(4) European Communities Act 1972 provides that any Act of the Westminster Parliament shall be presumed not to conflict with EEC legislation , and will be given effect only so far as it does not conflict with the EEC legislation . |
| 30 | We should proceed beyond the immediate results of experience only so far as legitimate inductions will take us . |