Example sentences of "be distance " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I knew how to be assertive and perhaps even then I wanted there to be distance between us , ’ she says . |
| 2 | July/August 1991 : There was a mini-launch at trinity Road for HCIMA 's distance Learning Scheme , when the scheme 's coordinator , and of Newcastle College , joined some of the course tutors from the colleges which would be Distance Learning centres , to celebrate the production of the first unit . |
| 3 | It is distance that makes friendship between classes almost impossible , and therefore , residence among the poor is suggested as a simple way in which Oxford men may serve their generation . |
| 4 | The main problem here is distance loss plus the added risk of finding trouble . |
| 5 | Or time is distance over speed . |
| 6 | Displacement is distance in a specified direction . |
| 7 | and this is distance learning ? |
| 8 | There 's time and there 's distance . |
| 9 | Whether it 's distance or congestion , . |
| 10 | That 's distance . |
| 11 | That 's distance , displacement , against time . |
| 12 | And that 's distance |
| 13 | That 's distance . |
| 14 | Marian was deep in thought but what she was thinking about she hardly knew : only that there was distance and stillness all around her and that the forest seemed to be watching her , and waiting for something to happen . |
| 15 | It was space that lamed the prospects of a truly national economy ; it was distance by land that doomed the government 's expensive attempt to re-create , in the eighteenth century , a great wool industry in central Spain and hampered the creation of an internal market in the nineteenth . |