Example sentences of "[verb] at some distance " in BNC.
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| 1 | Factories may be required to be sited at some distance from residential areas in specially designated industrial zones . |
| 2 | However , low concentrations of legionellae seem to be emitted from water systems , and epidemiological evidence indicates that infection can occur at some distance from the source of aerosol . |
| 3 | Fraud in commercial companies was close behind at £473 million , followed at some distance by the general public , including investors , at £230 million . |
| 4 | A gate set up by Tom Poole at the bottom of the Lime Street orchard led directly into his own garden , a small secluded area which lay at some distance behind Poole 's house in Castle Street and which –contained , beneath the shelter of a lime-tree , a jasmine-covered arbour . |
| 5 | She has two sons , both married with families , who live at some distance , and an older sister living in Brighton who cares for a disabled husband . |
| 6 | The head of Keats , for example , wildly festooned with metal locks which it had proved impossible to file smooth had flown very erratically indeed , killing only a fat money-lender and a camel standing at some distance from the field of action . |
| 7 | But if you are working from a consultancy or from an office situated at some distance from the manufacturing units you will need to organise a system for sending a product out and checking that it has gone . |
| 8 | You can plan the first outing as a short walk down the road and back : the patient walks ahead , while you follow at some distance , in case he gets into difficulties . |