Example sentences of "be [det] [noun] [adv] from [noun] " in BNC.

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1 We are some way yet from Autumn but that is no reason not to consider the way we can change colours on the needlebed to use up left over yarn or simply make a splash with colours we 've always wanted to knit together .
2 There are many quotations here from letters , evoking the primitive magic of that locale .
3 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 ! ’
4 There was little life apart from sheep .
5 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 .
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