Example sentences of "[be] [not/n't] so far " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Agnew 's are not so far in receipt of any offer for it . |
| 3 | By and large , however , shrub roses are not so far from their natural origins and include many that are perpetual or recurrent flowering . |
| 4 | Those of us who are not so far from the notable Sugar Loaf Summit on the Central Wales Line ( Heart of Wales ) will recall this example of a Staff Halt . |
| 5 | Erm I see so I 'm not really will make sure that erm that we are kept in touch so that we are not so far down the track but they ca n't be reversed committee as a whole |
| 6 | So he jumped astride a tractor and was being driven at maximum speed when he was told by somebody landing one of his aircraft alongside " You are not so far in advance of Rommel 's recce tanks " . |
| 7 | Most organisations are not so far advanced . |
| 8 | Treatments which would pass genetic changes to the children of patients are not so far permitted . |
| 9 | We 're not so far from the border . |
| 10 | And although we 're not so far from here cos we 're this is Newton Road and the next town on er village on is Newton Bromswell . |
| 11 | She looked like your mother whom you 'd loved , but whom you 'd lost — and while Doreen was near your mother seemed to be not so far away . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | But , apart from that , the Ceauşescus , collection of television sets , indeed their domestic arrangements as a whole , were not so far out of line with what any politburo member in the Bloc would have regarded as normal . |
| 14 | ‘ I wish I were n't so far away from her . ’ |
| 15 | Maybe you were n't so far out with the name . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | If the land is not so far ‘ registered ’ ( you solicitor will tell you ) then the Abstract of Title and Deeds will suffice . |
| 19 | You are seeing what is happening in our poor ORIENTAL brother land INDONESIA — DO N'T BE SURPRISED IF THE SAME thing happens in BURMA — SOME DAY — IT IS NOT SO FAR OFF — WE BURMANS AND INDIANS UNITEDLY WILL KICK OUT you blood sucking BRITISHERS AND your GODDAM children the Eurasians — Ho ! |
| 20 | This is not so far away from saying : Blacks are naturally superior in sports and physical endeavours ; whites are naturally superior at intellectual pursuits . |
| 21 | The detective story with an interesting background is not so far removed from the classical original . |
| 22 | Henry Mansel the philosopher-theologian after all published in 1858 The Limits of Religious Thought arguing that we can know almost nothing positive about God ; this God is not so far from Tyndall 's inscrutable Power . |
| 23 | ‘ Talisker is not so far from Merkadale , and it is the largest population centre in Minginish . |
| 24 | Mixing paints is not so far from the pre-Mendelian vision of heredity , and even today popular culture frequently expresses heredity in terms of a mixing of ‘ bloods ’ . |
| 25 | I will be able to bring what is going on here in science back to the children in the classroom , and make them realise that it is not so far away from what they are learning about . |
| 26 | I think we would be wise to reflect a little longer and to think that perhaps the Government is not so far wrong in what it is saying and I have to say finally My Lords that I never in my public life , or indeed in my private life have met anybody who has said to me that their attitude towards their local police force has been in any way influenced by the fact that the members of the police authority were or were n't democratically elected . |
| 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 | It 's not so far . |
| 29 | And it 's not so far . |
| 30 | She nodded as she said with sympathy , ‘ I can understand there must be times when Matt makes you feel your father is n't so far away after all . ’ |