Example sentences of "was [adv] [adj] [adv] from [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had wavy blond hair and was rather attractive apart from the beginnings of a moustache . |
| 2 | The river too was uniformly dark apart from the ripples and eddies which were thin ribbons of light . |
| 3 | Their unbeaten stand of 117 was only thirteen away from the England tenth-wicket record when , with Willis on 24 , he reached his maiden Test century , Botham declared and the match ended . |
| 4 | ‘ It so happened that No 5 Air School was not far away from the mine where Churchill hid during the Boer War , ’ Clifford recalls . |
| 5 | For the individuals concerned the trek was often one away from the dreary world of the family farm towards the bright lights of the big city . |
| 6 | Dotty said it was as well right from the beginning to learn how to use greasepaint properly . |
| 7 | All was well algae-wise apart from a smear of brown algae on the glass , some beard algae on the bogwood and on some of the slow-growing plants and what I now know to be the tell-tale sign of a thin greasy film on the water surface , which is present long before it thickens up into slime algae . |
| 8 | The open-windowed room looked as if it was quite far away from the main body of the Workshops . |
| 9 | It was actually alright apart from the cushions on the couch . |
| 10 | He was very different now from the frightened boy in Basil Hallward 's house . |
| 11 | She really was very pretty apart from the scowl . |