Example sentences of "well back from the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ensuring that the glazing of such new openings is kept well back from the external face of the walls ( at least 225mm ( 9in ) ) has meant that reflection has been minimised and the ‘ black hole ’ unglazed-opening appearance of apertures in traditional barns has been recreated . |
| 2 | This treatment was also applied to the smaller door , reached via a short flight of external stone steps that previously served the upper-level hay-loft , so that the new infilling panel of clear double-glazing , set well back from the external face of the wall , helps to light a sitting room while a ‘ door ’ , which can be swung like a shutter to seal this opening , is fixed back against the face of the adjoining flintwork . |
| 3 | At last she found the shop belonging to Dai Jones , it was spread well back from the front door , a long dimly lit store that sold everything from flour and salt to patent medicines . |
| 4 | Ellwood walked down the row of trees , then circled the house , staying well back from the lighted windows . |
| 5 | Mr. Oswald Stoll — who was subsequently knighted — began to erect , in 1911 , one of his ‘ Empires ’ , a theatre of entertainment , in Chiswick High Road , situated between the ‘ Old Packhorse ’ on the corner of Acton Lane , and the family butchers , ‘ Caughts ’ which had its own slaughter house , as well as a shop set well back from the main road , just west of Essex Place Square . |