Example sentences of "very far " in BNC.
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| 1 | And yet this man is very far from useless . |
| 2 | It probably wo n't get us very far , but you never know , one of them might come up with something . ’ |
| 3 | Layton 's ebullience was on a par with Ezra Pound 's ‘ showmanship ’ , and Leonard now found himself not so very far from where the great revolutionary poet ( of Imagism , Vortism etc. ) was actually incarcerated . |
| 4 | It was a place of solitude , of plodding donkeys ( even today no cars are allowed on the island ; nor would they get very far if they were ) ; cold water and kerosene lamps . |
| 5 | London 's very far … and I 'll never go back home . |
| 6 | To say that every inch of siding space must earn its keep by virtue of the traffic it carries is not so very far from the truth . |
| 7 | A proper discussion of a football match can not occur if one of the participants is quite ignorant of the rules of the game ; and the kind of assessment of a restaurant meal that would involve the possible insertion of the establishment into a good food guide ( or perhaps its deletion from it ) will not get very far if one of the diners does not care for the meal because his idea of a gastronomic treat is a cheeseburger and french fries ( though within the order of the burger discriminations are possible ) . |
| 8 | Yet in one sense the circumstances of any and every poem are ‘ special ’ ; and at any rate all these instances show that , in his own writing as in the writing of others , Pound was prepared to recognize circumstances which justified departing very far indeed from Ford 's and the imagists ' precepts about diction , indeed flying in the face of them . |
| 9 | However , he added : ‘ On my few visits prior to my appointment , and in my short time here since , I have found it very far from that . |
| 10 | BRIGHTON : This afternoon 's debate about electoral reform is unlikely to lead very far , given the adamant opposition of the leadership . |
| 11 | All in all , very far from kid 's stuff . |
| 12 | Had Greenaway wished to depict the chic cuisine of the moment , he should have chosen ‘ Cuisine de Terroir ’ ( food of the earth ) — solid , gutsy , grandmother 's cooking very far removed from the nouvelle fantasia we see here . |
| 13 | It is hard to think of two other nations in Europe which are so close and yet , still , despite many noble efforts on both sides , so very far apart . |
| 14 | Even when the Scottish and Welsh Bills became law in July 1978 it was clear that the issue was very far from settled and that the referendums , finally announced for 1 March 1979 , would be the decisive factor . |
| 15 | In the summer of 1981 , Mrs Thatcher was at her lowest ebb , very far from the invincible leader she was later to appear . |
| 16 | Ideologically they did not get very far . |
| 17 | The National Security Council , they insist , hums with meetings on just this , but the meetings can not get very far until more is known about how the post-war world looks . |
| 18 | In open , borderless capital markets , it is hard for borrowing costs to diverge very far . |
| 19 | The noises of the evening streets seemed very far away . |
| 20 | ‘ Look at the state of me. — I would n't get very far , would I ? ’ |
| 21 | It was a summer evening in a wood not very far West of the River Dyle . |
| 22 | I suspect that the theology of Genesis 22 is not to be pushed very far , that cautious theology has here been sacrificed on the fine altar of dramatic tension and powerful storytelling . |
| 23 | We suggested with Genesis 22 that certain aspects of its theology could not be pushed very far , that theological caution had been sacrificed in the interests of storytelling . |
| 24 | ‘ Are we still the people of God ? ’ was for them very far from being an academic question , but was in urgent need of an answer . |
| 25 | But it did n't get us very far . |
| 26 | ‘ We have n't got very far , ’ I said , looking at his list . |
| 27 | That takes us very far away from the little local Scottish drama ; and it is in this context that Mary 's reign should be understood . |
| 28 | The words are an echo of the great series of Scottish bonds of protection and service — maintenance and manrent — made from the mid fifteenth to the early seventeenth century by the nobles and the lairds ; the only difference is that rather than being completely mutual , as these bonds were , the king had the confident assurance that his subjects would serve ‘ exactly as he likes ’ — a confidence very far removed from the idea that Scottish kings were in any way at the mercy of their most powerful subjects . |
| 29 | It is a spectacle which takes us very far from the idea of lawless Scottish magnates . |
| 30 | And we remember the chip which Larry Mize holed in the 1987 play-off , which left Greg Norman speechless and , as PG Wodehouse had it , very far from gruntled . |