Example sentences of "[verb] so [adv] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Could this be because medics themselves suffer so grievously from the complaint , that they do not wish to talk or write about it ? |
| 2 | She reported that there was a general feeling of satisfaction with the standard of publicity that the Year had received so far from the media . |
| 3 | The supreme court declined to hear a case involving a ton of gold recovered so far from the SS Central America , resting in 8,000 feet of water off the coast of South Carolina after being sunk by a hurricane in 1857 . |
| 4 | A column entitled ‘ Bulletin ’ informs her that Marilyn French will be discussing her new book , Beyond Power : Women , Men and Morals , at a public meeting to be held later in the week in London , and it crosses Robyn 's mind , not for the first time , that it is a pity she lives so far from the metropolis where such exciting events are always happening . |
| 5 | Hangman 's Wood suffered so severely from the gales because , like much of our woodlands , it had been neglected for decades . |
| 6 | One result of this attitude was that the strain placed by warfare on the economies of most European States was less than the mere number of men engaged in fighting might seem to indicate , since these were drawn so largely from the least productive elements of society . |
| 7 | Armies so non-national and drawn so largely from the lowest strata of the social pyramid were prone to lose men by desertion . |
| 8 | But , surely , we can not have advanced so far from the socialist follies and delusions of the 1960s and 1970s , which all the world now rejects , to embrace them again under the banners of Mr Kinnock and Miss Glenda Jackson , Nupe and the apostles of Political Correctness , Mr Roy Hattersley and the heroes of a hundred town halls from Lambeth to Liverpool ? |
| 9 | Some of our precious time spent at Low Birk Hatt is taken up by a steady stream of Hannah 's admirers , making a pilgrimage to a place they know so well from the television programmes and books . |
| 10 | Like the salt traffic , the cattle trade that developed so strongly from the sixteenth century onwards moved along existing green lanes and trackways . |
| 11 | The British had retreated so far from the position they had held at Chicago that Sir William Hildred and Sir Henry Self , in charge of the British delegation , were afraid that they would be overruled by the Air Ministry and BOAC . |
| 12 | Seeing him return so early from the fields , his wife , who was an energetic , hard-working woman , called out : " What ! |
| 13 | We wondered what it was doing so far from the coastal cliffs , but we learned later that they sometimes build their eyries on inland lava pinnacles . |
| 14 | They were still on the outskirts of the city centre itself and Donna wondered what something as strange as a waxworks was doing so far from the city centre , even what it was doing in a place like Portsmouth . |
| 15 | It 's this thought that remains uppermost in the mind of coach Ian Birtwell as he looks back on those sixteen memorable days in October when Canada came charging so boldly from the ranks of the ‘ possibles ’ to achieve quarter-final status . |
| 16 | This post-Freudian , materialist reinterpretation of sexual deviance diverges so considerably from the sexological/psychoanalytic tradition that perversion comes to signify quite differently . |
| 17 | In particular the special garden for the blind was her favourite , where she would gently rub the sweet-scented leaves and herbs and flowers between her fingers and recall their names — the names she knew so well from the allotment we had had in South Shields . |
| 18 | It was odd that it lay so far from the house . |
| 19 | It is not just that the academic protocols of putative objectivity , cross referencing and theoretical vocabulary sit uneasily beside political polemic which reads so differently from the equally strict conventions of focused brevity in the local government or consultant 's report , although these issues of style are themselves not minor . |
| 20 | Darlington MP Michael Fallon said it was crazy for the brochure to encourage people to stay so far from the town . |
| 21 | Mr Fallon said it was ‘ crazy ’ for the brochure to encourage people to stay so far from the town . |
| 22 | They very swiftly get down to basics , ask pertinent questions , build up a rapport , and do so away from the rest of the party , away from the reporters and press cameras . |
| 23 | I always welcome hearing it when it is delivered so lucidly from the mouth of the hon. Member for Islington , North ( Mr. Corbyn ) . |
| 24 | It has had considerable benefits , it 's had one or two drawbacks and er I think the biggest lesson that we have probably learned so far from the Eurofighter programme , is that we have to be very careful when we make work sharing agreements in future , that er we do n't try to drive the work sharing requirement down to too low a level . |
| 25 | However anyone looking to it for an explanation of how women have come to be excluded so completely from the control of machines , or even for a theoretical framework within which to pose such a question , is in for a disappointment . |
| 26 | These services will be flown by 450 former Dan-Air flight and cabin crew , the only jobs saved so far from the 2,000 permanent Dan-Air staff . |
| 27 | There are fewer runners now : whether the halfpence have not flowed so freely from the pockets of the tourists , or the youthful population has decreased , I can not tell . |
| 28 | I thought you were too scared to move so far from the house , especially alone with Celia . ’ |
| 29 | But it 's the way the hills rise so sharply from the plain between Hereford and Worcester that exaggerates their impact — and provides sensational views . |
| 30 | 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 . |