Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] far from [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If it were possible to unfold the entire long history of the world 's religions in such a manner that it could be scrutinised , assimilated and judged in a single all-embracing operation , the verdict would be that it had strayed so far from the basic human need , and so far from the intentions of those good and sincere people who have throughout that history struggled to maintain its integrity , that it might well be condemned outright as a story of failure unmatched by anything else that has ever happened on earth . |
| 2 | There was Maria Filippa , however , looking at him through her glasses which had misted up in horror and grief at his outburst , gulping the air like a fish ; she was not like his sister Rosa , not one of those girls he had to protect from their own compulsions , but his own beloved and burdened wife , so reserved in bed that he even regretted her modesty himself , and so far from the whore he was about to call her , he shuddered from head to foot . |
| 3 | His other nanny lived in a small house on Park Road , close to St Luke 's Hospital and not far from the park where Frankie sometimes played . |
| 4 | It 's conveniently close to the village centre , and not far from the tennis and swimming pool complex . |
| 5 | Among the trees , and not far from the residence , he pointed out the spire of the little church of which he had spoken . |
| 6 | It was at the southern end of ‘ the terraces ’ one of the older residential areas of the town , and not far from the Burgers ' . |
| 7 | A bold assertion of reality indeed and very far from the idealised approach to love in adventure in another collaboration . |
| 8 | The only practical flaw I can find is some faintly uneven string-spacing at the nut , making the top E string too close to the B string and too far from the edge . |
| 9 | It is up to government to finance and provide it — but as far from the DTI as possible . |
| 10 | Senior staff regard themselves as rarely far from the public eye , a view encouraged by the attention paid by some local newspapers to the water authorities . |