Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] [adv] from [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With the extra money , especially if you were far away from home , your family could visit you in hospital , without some of the worry of travel and accommodation expenses . |
| 2 | He would tell Stapleton , who would then also believe that we were far away from Baskerville Hall . |
| 3 | A request for a diary had come from friends of the broker whose daughter was due home from Arra in Zaire because of political troubles . |
| 4 | It was profitable almost from day one — and now Koch has built a series of these plants . |
| 5 | New ideas and a ‘ revolution of aspiration ’ through higher real wages around the 1850s may have persuaded populations that economic advancement was possible away from subsistence agriculture into manufactures , services , and cash agriculture and that large families stood in the way of it ( Lesthaeghe 1983 ) . |
| 6 | Their view of the seriousness of Iraq 's action , and the reaction it demanded , was different enough from Mr Bush 's to scupper talk of global partnerships and replace it by what might be called contingent leadership . |
| 7 | We were anxious therefore to reduce to a minimum the number of samples where parental choice was unclear so from November 1990 we sent lists of infants untested to the local health district at the end of each month so that parental choice could be checked while the original sample was still usable . |
| 8 | Once in his own , he dreamed again of Tatiana , but she was far away from Broadstairs . |