Example sentences of "not so far " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eros is , after all , not so far from Agape in the pantheon of the heart . |
| 2 | I wonder if you are using ( in lectures ) a statement I remember you making in talk , but not so far as I can recall , in print . |
| 3 | SOME time ago , but not so far back that it can be dismissed as incidental , a belligerent centre-half , who needed very little encouragement in such nefarious matters , was instructed to discover how fast the visiting centre-forward could limp . |
| 4 | Whether or not we accept Eliot 's note that the title of ‘ The Hollow Men ’ draws on both Kipling 's ‘ The Broken Men ’ and Morris 's ‘ The Hollow Land ’ , there is little doubt that this ‘ valley of dying stars ’ is not so far from the landscapes of Victorian romanticism . |
| 5 | And , given the rather jaundiced view that civil servants had by then formed of the movie business , it is not surprising that they preferred to commend Rank for observing ‘ the normal standards of commercial efficiency and honesty , which have not so far been conspicuous within the film industry ’ than listen to the arguments presented by Palache that budget control on Rank 's film productions was inadequate . |
| 6 | Certainly their substance should be accessible to anyone not so far gone in the contemplation of astrology — a science , so it is widely held , on the cogent grounds that its practitioners use computers — homeopathy , aromatherapy , or telekinesis as to be beyond the reach of reason . |
| 7 | The allegations of corruption , too , have not so far touched the other three services , which have kept quietly clear of the row between the army and the government . |
| 8 | Though they have not so far emulated the economic success of other Asians , they share many of their qualities . |
| 9 | It was of course simple mischance that this rat-tat should happen , even though the kiosk is not so far as I know a particularly busy one . |
| 10 | Doses and lengths of exposure time were high but ‘ not so far from the levels to which some people are exposed , particularly in the workplace ’ . |
| 11 | Disorder in the Chamber or the galleries — or even the blazoning of slogans — has not so far created the problems that some had feared . |
| 12 | The terms ‘ postmodern ’ , ‘ postmodernism ’ and their affiliates have not so far been accepted in Italy , except , for the most part , vaguely , in reports from overseas . |
| 13 | SAVE was now the owner of a building we had not so far gained access to . |
| 14 | If the land is not so far ‘ registered ’ ( you solicitor will tell you ) then the Abstract of Title and Deeds will suffice . |
| 15 | it has not so far provided any really noticeable challenge to the Secretary of State 's views . |
| 16 | The UNESCO Report could be a first step towards this but it needs international organizations like UNESCO and IFLA to take the action they have not so far done . |
| 17 | But to be fair to Green it was from his burning wish for people to admire the scenery , not from a desire to spoil it , that he made these suggestions , which certainly are not so far fetched in the 20th century as they must have been then . |
| 18 | In due course , when all available information on the releases of polonium-210 and other nuclides not so far incorporated in the analysis has been assimilated , the board will publish a revised assessment of the radiological implications of environmental releases from the Windscale fire . |
| 19 | The trick is to push a dispute just far enough to make your opponent cave in for fear of a court action , but not so far that it goes to court . |
| 20 | The dates are significant , for they show that the spirit which ruled in the Italian city republics had noisy echoes in Germany and France — all over northern Europe indeed ; and that Italy and the northern communes were not so far apart as the northern monarchs and many modern historians have wished them to be . |
| 21 | He made her a bow , lighter and smaller than his , until she could shoot with it almost as well as Allen himself , though not so far because the light bow would n't carry . |
| 22 | ‘ Not so far as I know . ’ |
| 23 | The British public had not so far been inclined to take the latest invasion threat very seriously and its chief effect had been to encourage feminism . |
| 24 | The King was already there , with half the court and the Mamelukes ; and a tent , shivering in the wind , had been set up but was not so far in use . |
| 25 | ‘ Not so far as I know . |
| 26 | The Northern Ireland Act 1982 provides for the existing Assembly ( which lacks both legislative and executive powers ) to make proposals for the transfers to the Assembly of legislative and executive powers but such proposals must be such as to be ‘ likely to command widespread acceptance throughout the community ’ and although attempts are currently under way to evolve such proposals , they have not so far met with success . |
| 27 | But it 's strange to think that the day 's not so far away when players like Robert Cray , Bonnie Raitt and Jimmie Vaughan , for so long representatives of the new American blues generation , will themselves be looked on as the elders of the blues . |
| 28 | Though not so far repeated by other workers elsewhere , this French work would seem to demonstrate test-tube ( in vitro ) effects of homoeopathic potencies , albeit low ones , in a wide variety of laboratory situations . |
| 29 | In fact , the electoral effects of scare-stories about immigration and asylum may be one of the so-far unrecognised aspects of the campaign , partly because such stories have not so far featured prominently among the factors of mass-media coverage to which the Labour Party has attributed its own defeat . |
| 30 | However , this relationship has not so far been sufficiently investigated to ensure that a given design will be stable in fast forward flight . |