Example sentences of "is [not/n't] so far " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | If the land is not so far ‘ registered ’ ( you solicitor will tell you ) then the Abstract of Title and Deeds will suffice . |
| 4 | 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 ! |
| 5 | This is not so far away from saying : Blacks are naturally superior in sports and physical endeavours ; whites are naturally superior at intellectual pursuits . |
| 6 | The detective story with an interesting background is not so far removed from the classical original . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ Talisker is not so far from Merkadale , and it is the largest population centre in Minginish . |
| 9 | 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 ’ . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . ’ |