Example sentences of "be [adv] [adv] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't believe we are so far from the nomad as people in Europe believe . |
| 2 | He had been born in Coatbridge , Glasgow in 1962 and been inside periodically from the age of seventeen . |
| 3 | Wartime recollections are thus mostly from the ‘ fun ’ side of'war work' ; bicycling round as College Messenger ; working in the Radcliffe laundry on my own after the staff had gone , with no sound but the crickets , and the smell of damp clean sheets and steam ; walking into a lamp-post in the blackout ; no church bells … |
| 4 | So the bit of the sea that is near to the moon has more water in it than the bits of the sea which are further away from the moon . |
| 5 | Candles give a warm glow to the festive arrangements ( but make sure they are far enough from the wallpaper not to scorch it or damage it with hot wax ) . |
| 6 | The points that have been made about public expenditure are as far from the truth as one can imagine . |
| 7 | This means that the main carriage must be right away from the main bed , on its extension rails , as you go to use the lace carriage . |
| 8 | Cadence Design Systems Inc warns that turnover for the first quarter will be down substantially from the same period last year and it will likely see a loss for the quarter . |
| 9 | I 'm just back from the railway station , where I have deposited in Left Luggage a small brown parcel containing one Smith & Wesson and two dozen rounds , and I have detoured on the way back to buy three more shirts , some underpants and some socks . |
| 10 | One of the new criteria , which would rule out Boston , New York and London as races with world record credentials , is that the start should not be further away from the finish than 30 per cent of the total distance run . |
| 11 | But it was to be completely apart from the real functions of government , and courtiers were neither expected nor permitted to be politicians . |
| 12 | It had been there right from the beginning , right from the night of the dog . |
| 13 | So how does the team in Clearwater cope with being so far from the Abingdon headquarters ? |
| 14 | Consultancy profits were down again from the poor first half level . |
| 15 | Lost time incidents and the associated frequency index were down substantially from the previous year , maintaining a progressively improving trend . |
| 16 | Professor Rudé has shown that its members were not generally from the delinquent , vagrant or criminal poor and were often unfairly described as " a mob " . |
| 17 | More than a hundred Unionist MPs were usually away from the House on military service , and 125 Unionist agents served in the trenches ; the party organization was used in the war effort at no cost to the country ; every local party was decimated by volunteers who joined up in the first rush ; and at every level , the number who joined up was more than matched by those indirectly involved through recruiting , raising money , running war charities or breeding remounts . |
| 18 | Rather sadly , the sites allotted to these clinics were often away from the main hospital departments and were either to be found in dungeon-like basements or else in prefabricated huts . |
| 19 | They were far back from the bar . |
| 20 | They were far enough from the city for the sounds of insurrection to be too faint to disturb anyone but the few scrawny goats which wandered listlessly around their enclosures . |
| 21 | Wicker , wickerwork basket the one had got a top on and er the big one which I had a hundred and forty loaves , I did n't have a top on but you had a waterproof sheet that you put over the top of that , but er the small ones had a lid on was hinged , hinged lid you could fold it backwards , as far as you could empty it and er what they used to do coming down Road you used to give it a good push and then jump on the back and freewheel down past what is now Lane er is that convenience still on , in those days the was a gents toilet , a public convenience where you went down steps , you were actually apart from the urinals there was toilets as well there . |
| 22 | it 's only like from the tile to the ceiling . |
| 23 | He 's only back from the war two minutes and he 's put the Medical Officer of Health 's nose out of joint . |
| 24 | This is so far from the truth that on the whole , for those really attending to education , the notion of innate given individuality has remained the stronger . |
| 25 | And they 're right , because the idea of wandering around with a radio-equipped , RISC-based , flat tablet , scribbling notes and then faxing them off Star Trek-style to headquarters , is so far from the reality of poor handwriting recognition , disappointing battery life , so-so screens and skyscrapingly high prices , that most users simply have n't bothered . |
| 26 | Though it is so far from the world in which most of us live today , it is difficult to over-emphasise the strength of the Church and the landed gentry at that time . |
| 27 | I , he er wants to have an image about the Labour Party that 's so far from the reality that it 's not true . |
| 28 | And there 's , towards the end of the first chapter there 's a bit all about erm erm er temptation and deliver us from evil kind of thing which is obviously rather from the , from the Lord 's Prayer and yet it 's , rather explained rather nicely and it , it 's a lovely , lovely book ! |
| 29 | The first point that one would want to make in criticism of the gens theory is that , even if descent groups such as the Iroquois gens appear as undifferentiated communities from the point of view of an outsider , this is not so from the point of view of the member of a gens . |
| 30 | And they came unto Jericho , which is just up from the Dead Sea . |