Example sentences of "at [det] distance " in BNC.
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| 31 | It is easy at this distance in time to explain the pattern away as an inevitable feature of the wider transition from one form of economy to another , but there can have been little pleasure for families like the Eldridges or Mepkins of Battle whose members appeared regularly in the poor-relief accounts over several generations . |
| 32 | However , at this distance from the monster , she could see that it was none other than her own tabby cat , which for some reason had grown to the size of a mammoth . |
| 33 | At this distance , we may find Balboa 's antics in the surf laughably pretentious ; but at the time the sighting of the Mar del Sur , as he felt compelled to christen the new sea , was a formidable discovery indeed : the implications of its swift and secure passage into the hands of Spain were profound in the extreme . |
| 34 | At this distance I hardly think we 'd trigger anything even if the bomb was activated , but no chances . |
| 35 | Difficult , at this distance , to shut out of mind photographs of Waugh in his later years in his modest country house , forever trying to look like a country gentleman and forever ( as a friend once remarked ) looking like a bookie . |
| 36 | The overall effect is visually complicated and inelegant , and could only be explained by recourse to arcane ritual references , which at this distance of time we have little hope of tracing . |
| 37 | The main problem then , inevitably when cutting at this distance from your eyes , is to make pruning cuts as clean and precise as when the secateurs are actually in your hand . |
| 38 | It was known from collocation studies ( see Chapter 4 ) that the information from co-occurrence relations is optimised at a distance of four words , so the window size was provisionally set at this distance . |
| 39 | However , the window size is currently set at four words , and at this distance the difference between the two algorithms is very slight . |
| 40 | It is hard at this distance to work out whether the family played a great part in the daughter 's choice of trade , though common sense suggests that this was probably so . |
| 41 | Even at this distance , and despite the coat , William can tell that she is quite slim . |
| 42 | But that , as they suggest , is a well-nigh impossible task at this distance in time . |
| 43 | Even at this distance . |
| 44 | He sought , self-consciously , now that he once again walked those familiar streets , to catch up with that other , vanished self who , at this distance , seemed more real than the person he had become . |
| 45 | LADY JONES : She is a charming creature , I see that at this distance . |
| 46 | He was unrecognizable at this distance , but the woman who followed him a moment later only had to take a couple of steps for Pascoe to know that this was Gwen Evans again . |
| 47 | The large size of the Jovian magnetosphere is partly a consequence of the fairly low particle density in the solar wind at this distance from the Sun , and partly because the Jovian magnetic field is very strong . |
| 48 | Their voices were faint at this distance , but they could be seen gesturing towards the company . |
| 49 | Their noise could be heard even at this distance , and a hint of the smell drifted down the wind . |
| 50 | At this distance it would still be very difficult to detect the steady emission of a black hole , even if it was ten thousand megawatts . |
| 51 | A lorry staggers along the High Street , and even at this distance the vibration rattles the draining board . |
| 52 | And at this distance , |
| 53 | At the sound of her mother 's voice , faint but even at this distance still accusing , away down there on the snow-covered lawn , Alexandra drew away from the window into the shadows of the room behind . |
| 54 | At this distance , a 0·07 m length of Mg ribbon produces a coating of about 20 µm thickness . |
| 55 | At this distance in time , I can not pretend that I had my doubts about its merits : what I did dwell on was a certain psychological subtlety in retailing the author 's love-life , though in terms which today would he considered ludicrously niminy-piminy . |
| 56 | Admittedly at this distance the idea appears fanciful and even ludicrous ; and no doubt if an enemy landing or landings had taken place , the roads out of London would have been jammed . |
| 57 | Even at this distance he could make out the faint octarine glow in the air that must be indicating a stable magic aura of at least — he gasped — several milliprime ? |
| 58 | Race relations seemed almost cosy discussed at this distance from Notting Hill or Brixton , Penelope thought scornfully . |
| 59 | Now and then she lifted an eyeglass up and peered through it for a moment , and , evidently finding it useless at this distance , let it fall again , shaking her head in a frustrated way . |
| 60 | At this distance , the heat from the rapidly spreading flames was almost unbearable . |