Example sentences of "so far [verb] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | Neither of her parents were church-goers and her father had so far lapsed from his native Catholicism as to despise and detest ‘ the whole primitive priestly caboodle ’ , as he called it . |
| 2 | Secondly , many of the ideas presented so far derive from a particular perspective in sociology which has been subject to the criticisms noted above . |
| 3 | With the pitiless unknowing complacency and contempt of the young , Nicandra resented their trivial employments of time , so far distanced from the terrible hazards of loving . |
| 4 | And if you 're still mired in sentimentality , look at it this way : the admission fees so far received from visitors to the carp pond have already enabled the Boy Scouts to build and maintain several church halls in the area . |
| 5 | With the kind of support so far received from SOED and SRC , the indications are that the learning and teaching of modern languages will become increasingly effective — especially for those children in need of support . |
| 6 | Headline of the week so far comes from Reuter , which says MICROSOFT SHIPS WIDOWS IN JAPANESE , but the truth is that Microsoft Corp said the Japanese-language edition of the Windows operating system version 3.1 is now being shipped , adding that it is the first retail version for personal computers to be introduced in Japan , and that 24 of the OEM customers supporting Windows in Japan are offering it pre-installed and preconfigured on their machines as part of Microsoft 's Windows Ready-to-Run programme ; Microsoft is also set with Windows 3.1 in Korean and Chinese . |
| 7 | In another version of this theme family law stands accused of having so far departed from principle and precedent as to be arbitrary , thereby losing its claim to guide conduct . |
| 8 | It should be noted that the largest threat to totalizing control of schools in Ireland has so far come from the integrated schooling movement . |
| 9 | To Giles I 'm a ‘ Jeremiah ’ who should be capable of ‘ an act of faith ’ — act of lunacy , more like ; to Hans Haenlein and others I 've got incredibly deep pockets ; to Peter Davey , for whom I voted and who is now so far removed from ‘ the cultural gangsters ’ as to be a cultural kamikaze pilot , I need ‘ a heroic proposal ’ ; to Mervyn Miller I should n't ‘ surrender my birthright ’ — but I may have to sell it . |
| 10 | So far removed from normal sense that when he rang the bell at Nutty 's house and her father came down in his dressing-gown thinking it must be the police , he did not understand the excitement . |
| 11 | The forces that we are dealing with are so far removed from what we regard as the material world that they will completely revolutionize physics and philosophy and bring about a profound change in humanity 's perception of reality . |
| 12 | There seemed little else that he could do , but it was so far removed from his own branch of medicine , so alien to anything he could have foreseen happening to Celia . |
| 13 | Your implication that the high handed attitude of the LTA has contributed to the demise of junior tennis in this country is so far removed from the truth that I believe it bears some examination . |
| 14 | In Germany just after the First World War , for example , working class organisations were so far removed from both the objective interests of the class and the concern of its members that they were incapable of seizing the revolutionary opportunities open to them . |
| 15 | These may all be worthy aims , but they are so far removed from the reality of most house officers ' experiences as to be laughable . |
| 16 | The clinical teachers tended to be so far removed from the key issues in healthcare that unless students performed allocated nursing ‘ tasks ’ in the standard way , they were viewed as ‘ poor ’ material . |
| 17 | Our own children are now so far removed from danger , at least of the primal kind , and these Masai are so close to it , that you would expect them to be cowed and fearful . |
| 18 | The detective story with an interesting background is not so far removed from the classical original . |
| 19 | It was hardly surprising that this was the case , and it did n't stop me from giving interviews , but they seemed so far removed from what we were actually trying to do . |
| 20 | Both Soviet and American leaders , by the late 1980s , had a common interest in a negotiated end to the Iran-Iraq war and in an international agreement guaranteeing freedom of movement in the Persian Gulf , but neither could necessarily manipulate events in the region to its advantage and neither , perhaps , quite understood the nature of a popular movement so far removed from its own cultural assumptions . |
| 21 | But they were also so far removed from conditions elsewhere in Italy that Banfield 's attention centred on this intra-national gap , and noting the many efforts which had been made by successive Italian governments to deal with ‘ the Southern Question ’ , he asked why these peripheral ‘ backward societies ’ were , as he put it , ‘ ultra-stable ’ , apparently trapped in dependency and poverty . |
| 22 | By turning the show into a theatrical display , Laura felt comfortable ; it was so far removed from reality that it could be viewed as a staged drama with no intention of portraying a ‘ Laura Ashley ’ customer in real life . |
| 23 | Why take on an unprofitable company , in a line of business so far removed from shipping , that 's going to demand so much of your time ? ’ |
| 24 | He had guessed that this place was a palace to her , and she wondered suddenly if she was a complete fool even to consider getting mixed up in his world , when it was so far removed from her own . |
| 25 | Since that hope was so far removed from the reality of what had actually happened , Rory felt a peculiar desire to giggle . |
| 26 | One of the difficulties is that the end state is so far removed from the average child that it is very difficult for them to see why they have to learn to read , but if they can realize that if they learn to read in those houses where they have it they 'll be able to read the Radio Times and know what the television programmes are , that at least is motivating . |
| 27 | One of the difficulties is that the end state is so far removed from the average child that it is very difficult for them to see why they have to learn to read , but if they can realize that if they learn to read in those houses where they have it they 'll be able to read the Radio Times and know what the television programmes are , that at least is motivating . |
| 28 | ‘ So far comments from Com Tech and MUA suggest that SCO will still be sold by both companies , but neither tried to shy away from the fact that their decisions will hurt SCO . |
| 29 | This is the earliest formulation of quarantine regulations and preventive medicine relating to these diseases so far recovered from the ancient Near East . |