Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] [noun] [adv] from [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anyway , we do know that on the day he was murdered you were some distance away from Edinburgh , but it was a good pretext to arrest and detain you should you attempt to complain to your masters in London ! ’ |
| 2 | There was little life apart from sheep . |
| 3 | In some parts of Wales , south-west , and northern England small town populations increased because of a local retreat from rural areas where there was little employment apart from agriculture , much of which was in a depressed state . |
| 4 | If he was not in the mould of White , he was light years away from Sir John Smith , White 's predecessor . |
| 5 | He thought about the way that Overdene looked at him from his glass cubbyhole whenever Henry was twenty minutes late from lunch . |
| 6 | It was two weeks away from Christmas . |