Example sentences of "be [prep] [adv] far " in BNC.
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| 1 | SUNSCREEM ARE about as far removed from rock music and spurious notions of ‘ cutting it live ’ as it 's possible to get , but as one of the few rave-oriented acts around who actually play live they could teach a lot of aspiring indie acts a thing or seven about live entertainment . |
| 2 | So you are about as far away from absolute egalitarianism as you can get , you are actually enshrining |
| 3 | All the doctors , psychiatrists and groups I 'd been to so far for help had made me feel worse than ever : could she be any different ? |
| 4 | And this had been the way things were for as far back as the frogs could remember . |
| 5 | In most other respects , in terms of personality , ideology , political credibility and intellectual coherence , Mosley 's and Leese 's fascism were about as far apart from each other as it was possible to be . |
| 6 | the Palladium — a cheap trick to try and convince the punters that they were in somewhere far classier than was really the case . |
| 7 | Raising the sums which will be required in the name of global environmental security during the next 50–60 years ( which is about as far as anyone can reasonably try to foresee ) will create severe political and economic stresses . |
| 8 | Wendy Cope is about as far from the old-boy generation as David Wright feels from his first meeting with George Barker , but she knows what they 're like : Do n't ask him the time of day . |
| 9 | Slaughter 's description of this as ‘ whimsical ’ is about as far as her detached sense of scholarship allows her to go in appraising some of these eccentricities . |
| 10 | This is about as far as the development of glues had got by the end of the war . |
| 11 | By and large , of course , your average Euro-Communist is about as far to the left as an English liberal , but here , among these dry Tuscan hills , they have a tougher breed , who hark back to the guerrilla fighters of 1943 . |
| 12 | Milton Keynes is about as far from the sea as it is possible to get in England , and Roger Mason 's motivation in coming to us was never quite clear to me ( perhaps it was n't to him either , for although after four intensive years ' research he produced a many-hundred page ‘ draft ’ of his thesis , far in excess of what might be required , he finally failed to submit it for examination ) . |
| 13 | We went to the capital , Castries , for the afternoon 's festivities but arrived too late to see the round-the-town mile ( that 's about as far as it is ) . |
| 14 | I watch videos and read manga , and that 's about as far as I want to go . |
| 15 | I watch a lot of videos and read manga , and that 's about as far as I want to go . |
| 16 | Like a couple of chums , but that 's about as far as it goes . |
| 17 | This knowledge ensures they start every letter with ‘ I know you must be swamped by requests to open bizzarres [ sic ] like these but — ’ and ‘ Your secretary assures us that you are unable to speak at our annual dinner in John O'Groats but — ’ and that 's about as far as understanding goes . |
| 18 | That 's about as far as I 've got . ’ |
| 19 | He 's in too far now . |
| 20 | These letters are the letters of a wonderful poet and that truth shines steady through the very shining and alternating feelings with which I look at them in so far as they concern me , that is in so far as they are mine . |
| 21 | Thank you , Chair , it 's basically been allocated in terms of floor area , and what we 've said to Age Concern , is in so far as we continue to provide them with premises , then we will , if we adjust those charges , we will adjust their grant accordingly . |
| 22 | So I walked up to him and I was about this far away yeah ? |
| 23 | She took a step backwards , which was about as far as she could go in that hallway . |
| 24 | Playing out of defence , however , was about as far as it went , though in the closing stages they produced the most sustained attacking football of the afternoon . |
| 25 | ‘ Well , at the time — ’ he stopped , embarrassed , but saw he was in too far — ‘ I thought she might have … have made it up . |
| 26 | if these young men possessed traces of the Beastblood , it was from so far back that it could not be measured , and it was so slight that it could no longer hold the power to call upon the beasts for aid . |
| 27 | The calculus , without which the achievements of engineering and communications of the period would have been impossible , was by now far behind the moving frontier of mathematics . |