Example sentences of "so far [adv] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A government promise to liberalise prices next year is so far just that : a promise . |
| 2 | Conversely , you should n't be so far away that you can not close quickly enough . |
| 3 | Neither stand so far away that it can not pick up your voice . |
| 4 | Stars are so far away that they appear to us to be just pinpoints of light . |
| 5 | I guess he figured the malais would be less alert in the torpor of the mid-afternoon , while darkness was still not so far away that it could n't cloak his escape . |
| 6 | There below you , so far away that it might be in Derbyshire , was a single toytown rooftop . |
| 7 | The opening of new offices may take place as part of a general expansion of the activities of a firm to additional locations ( though usually never so far away that they can not benefit from the goodwill attaching to headquarters ) or involve streamlining administration by establishing different departments in separate offices . |
| 8 | As she made coffee she stared dreamily ahead , smiled to herself for no apparent reason , and was so far away that at last Sophie remarked , ‘ You 're very happy — very preoccupied . |
| 9 | Notions of law and morality seemed to be so far apart that the two sides were talking different languages . |
| 10 | And no touch of tease or laughter in the long grey eyes , eyes set so far apart that they belonged more to the temples than to the full face . |
| 11 | The team was chosen so far ahead that the monumental Rangers defender George Young was omitted because of an injury that cleared up weeks before the team left Scotland . |
| 12 | I often wonder if the rolling activity at such times is happening well below the surface ; so far below that there can be no visible signs of disturbance , even in calm water . |
| 13 | After 1860 the monthly meetings became almost formal and were often postponed , the records were inadequate and subscriptions so far behind that they were cancelled . |