Example sentences of "so far [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The origin of Blakeney Point is open to discussion : it has been suggested that the western end may have been a feature comparable with Scolt Head Island and later joined to the mainland by a simple spit growing westwards from Weybourne : it may have developed entirely as a spit such as Orford Ness or Hurst Castle Spit , which will be described below ; or the whole feature may represent an offshore bar driven so far inshore as to become attached to the coast . |
| 2 | The film industry and the export of works of art , so far primarily the joint responsibility of the OAL and the Department of Trade and Industry , have long been candidates for transfer to an enlarged arts department . |
| 3 | But Lee Bridges of the Public Law Project points out that judicial reviews have so far effectively assumed that , even if services are provided by an independent agent , ultimate responsibility lies with the public body holding basis statutory responsibility . |
| 4 | Below the bridge , the stream , so far well behaved , vanishes in a fit of petulance into Thorns Gill Cave on its north bank , the interior being out of bounds to all but experienced cavers . |
| 5 | Erm and so far well I 'm certainly willing to confess that I took these away full of good intentions and have have so far carried around this torn up copy of the Greater London Green Party for months . |
| 6 | A government promise to liberalise prices next year is so far just that : a promise . |
| 7 | All you 've said so far just confirms what I have long suspected — that you were so determined to get to the top , so determined to succeed that day , that you quite deliberately drove my brother off the track ! ’ |
| 8 | So far nearly 2,000 extra bed spaces have been provided , and the number of people who are out on the streets is substantially lower than 12 months ago . |
| 9 | Changes in standards of conduct in Europe since the Middle Ages have so far generally proceeded , he argues , in the direction of increased civilisation : |
| 10 | Everything I was saying was , so far anyway , completely acceptable Christian dogma . |
| 11 | So far anyway they 've been excellent I must say . |
| 12 | There who are they talking about so far anyway it 's not Kenneth Clarke or Brian Clough or Dennis McCarthy or er D H Lawrence or John Major or Martin Brandon Bravo or the Sheriff . |
| 13 | All the colleagues I have mentioned so far either abstained or voted against the Second Reading of the Maastricht Bill . |
| 14 | They set about an extensive programme of repair and renovation of the complex and have so far successfully restored one of the Clutterbuck water wheels , as well as a Tangye Compound Steam Engine ( plus a portable boiler ) , that formerly powered stick making machinery . |
| 15 | Gold objects so far partly cleaned of earth include an extremely large gold bracelet ornamented with a pierced frieze of a well-known Roman type . |
| 16 | Jay demanded , her voice ugly , feeling so far away she could lose no more , the angrier she grew the further Lucy went ; but when she forced herself to be quiet and good , Lucy still kept her distance . |
| 17 | Conversely , you should n't be so far away that you can not close quickly enough . |
| 18 | They are so far away from us that only the poet can understand them . |
| 19 | And if you are a parent yourself , please spare a thought for the mothers of these children so far away . |
| 20 | Above all , a pension seems so far away when you are in your twenties and thirties . |
| 21 | It 's a real worry with him being so far away . |
| 22 | In Japan there were more than 40,000 kids there but they were so far away she must have physically looked half an inch high . |
| 23 | So much had happened so fast , and the man she loved was so far away . |
| 24 | Adorno and Horkheimer , the apostates , may not be so far away from Bakhtin , the new prophet , as some critical celebrants of carnival might admit : |
| 25 | Ex- Sounds writer Dave McCullouch : ‘ I think The Smiths have moved so far away from their original ideas . |
| 26 | It looks as if the day may not be so far away when we can all do our shopping , banking and working from our homes . |
| 27 | ‘ How on earth it strayed so far away from the flock without being missed . |
| 28 | A cheque book and an airline ticket — that is all it needed to bathe in that heat so far away . |
| 29 | Tiller was mad ; he never forgave me but Jennie just said , ‘ Perhaps Bella does n't want to go so far away . ’ |
| 30 | Sadly indeed , the pendulum seems to have swung , as it does swing on the education clock , so far away from the New Primary Approach that even the integrated approach to lower primary teaching , which had been so wisely and effectively urged , is no longer reflected in the current Kenya syllabus . |