Example sentences of "too [adj] from [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In my own work with Japanese quail I have found that this process may lead to a preference for a partner that is slightly novel — just a bit different but not too different from the members of the opposite sex it knew when it was young ( Bateson , Mate Choice ) . |
| 2 | The weather station at Glasgow airport is too far from the homes of many of my constituents and their homes are also several hundred feet above sea level . |
| 3 | The perception of social advantage in general abstention from collective bargaining is too remote from the circumstances of the individual worker for him ever to support through the ballot box a general prohibition on trade unions , let alone to abstain privately from their immediate protection in a world where there is no reason to expect other workers to confer a reciprocal advantage on him by similar abstention . |
| 4 | Examples of teaching practice are rejected because they seem too remote from the trainees ' own situation : " Yes but … my students would never ( work in pairs/bring things to class/respond to a video screen . ) " |
| 5 | The men are too tired , the women too remote from the issues of the day , to offer more than a commentary on the quiche or a flirtatious skirmish . |