Example sentences of "far from [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It should be clear how far from a general theory such remarks take us : to progress any further one must be more specific . |
| 2 | When Dermo says ‘ Let's get foonky woonky ’ in his Mancunian draw , it 's as far from a fitting description of their music as one could imagine . |
| 3 | When Dermo says ‘ Let's get foonky woonky ’ in his Mancunian draw , it 's as far from a fitting description of their music as one could imagine . |
| 4 | The latter 's own gallery was in his house in Viktoriastrasse not far from a whole set of galleries and new theatres in Berlin 's ‘ alten Westen ’ around Lützowplatz and Potsdamer Strasse . |
| 5 | Against that are moments when he strays too far from the printed note in striving for that extra frisson of feeling and resorts to a delivery that stays only just the right side of being coarse . |
| 6 | Many years later Harry Houghton , one of the members of the Portland spy ring sentenced to 15 years ' imprisonment in 1961 , claimed that his Russian controller ( who was , incidentally , somehow tipped off about the impending arrest of the spy ring and never caught ) , told him during a meeting at the Crown Inn , at Punknoll in Dorset ( not far from the underwater research laboratory where Houghton worked ) , that the Russians had been warned of Crabb 's plan . |
| 7 | ‘ In a side street , not far from the burning Palace of Justice , yet out of the way , stood a man , sharply distinguished from the crowd , flailing his hands in the air and moaning over and over again : ‘ The files are burning ! |
| 8 | How far Outram 's hostility to Bradwell stemmed from a feminist critique of his chauvinist behaviour , how far from the conflicting claims of expert and parent is impossible to say . |
| 9 | Easter Island has a temperate climate , and only two tiny beaches far from the sole settlement of Hangaroa , There is but one small hotel ; our preference was for a guest house where we could meet a local family . |
| 10 | ‘ I am not here to lose , ’ he said , never far from the negative response . |
| 11 | FAR from the crowded Second Division title race , Blackburn goalie Bobby Mimms loves coming back to the peace of his home village in North Yorkshire . |
| 12 | It was not only the cottages of Surrey , Sussex and Kent that inspired the Arts and Crafts architects ; there was also a strong movement in Cheshire , where a wealth of clients wanted new homes not too far from the great cities of Liverpool and Manchester . |
| 13 | They were in the south aisle of the Cathedral nave , not too far from the great west door . |
| 14 | " Ah , " he said , when almost out of sight , back in the depths of the room , not far from the small winding-stair he had entered the room by a few minutes earlier . |
| 15 | A few fragments of carrot were still lying about near the spring , but he had left these untouched and was eating the grass not far from the gnarled crabapple tree . |
| 16 | Far from the fertile cornfields and lush pastures of the southern counties , the poverty of North Country hill farmers had no parallel . |
| 17 | The microfilm is also an invaluable tool for disabled workers who are unable to get to the central paper system or for an interview room that is situated far from the general bureau office . |
| 18 | By the generosity of the Duke of Devonshire , an area of land on the southern side of Burlington Lane , not far from the Southern Railway Station , was made available to the Chiswick Parochial Charities , and a number of Memorial Homes were erected for housing ex-service men and their families . |
| 19 | 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 ’ . |
| 20 | Another building , not far from the postulated south gate , had floors and walls of clay , except for the north end where the floor edge was marked by sandstone blocks . |
| 21 | The Palestinians had been firing Katyusha rockets into Galilee , the missiles landing not far from the Israeli village of Ben Ami where Mrs Zamzam 's Arab village of Um Al-Farajh had once stood . |
| 22 | Indeed , the manner in which the railways forced the mixing of the castes was said to have been a contributory cause of the Mutiny in 1857 , although it must be said that the revolt broke out in an area still far from the early Indian railway projects . |
| 23 | As a result , in the nineteenth century a national region which could fairly be called Yakutia extended over 1,6000 kilometres from the Vilyui river to the Kolyma and nearly as far from the middle Lena to the shores of the Arctic Ocean . |
| 24 | Over three days , speakers repeatedly conjured up images of incompetent social engineers , bent on disarming honest citizens and leaving them helpless in the face of criminals ; ‘ anti-gun fetishists ’ in the media , with their expense-account life-styles and homes far from the front line ; lawyers who turn criminals out on to the streets to kill and rape again ; and , above all , the federal government , which is determined to subvert the constitution by establishing a monopoly of arms . |
| 25 | Another successful firm interviewed said that , far from the IFI helping financially , they had actually done their business and a number of others in their enterprise park a lot of harm . |
| 26 | Perhaps because it is situated not far from the Belgian border where stone is more readily available , it is a richly decorated late Gothic cathedral , definably Dutch in treatment but Belgian or French in design . |
| 27 | On the other hand , it is argued in { 10 } that , if we look only at parameter values reasonably far from the critical value , it will usually be the case that the cumulative effect of the whole sequence of complicated bifurcations occurring near the critical parameter value is just to add a single symmetric periodic orbit to the system . |
| 28 | As they float through the water their long , almost invisible tentacles hang down and spread out far from the visible central part of the body . |
| 29 | Temiar gardens consist of a wide range of plants , apparently grown haphazardly and far from the regimented uniformity of plantation agriculture . |
| 30 | In the summer of 1981 , Mrs Thatcher was at her lowest ebb , very far from the invincible leader she was later to appear . |