Example sentences of "so [adv] from the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Almost at once they heard the music of the hunt — the pack and the leaders , running crosswind a furlong or so downhill from the path . |
| 2 | So right from the beginning you need to give out positive feelings and positive feedback towards them . |
| 3 | So right from the beginning of the poem a sombre mood is present in the poem . |
| 4 | This means that there is a healthy 240 volts floating just an inch or so away from the Spectrum PCB and the keyboard . |
| 5 | The guiding principle must be that the overall value or interest of the essay lies in how its combination of observation and argument leads towards more general statements , and so away from the particularity of autobiography and personal impression . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I have seen photographs of orca , both still and movie , close-up and underwater , but nothing prepares me for the sight of a real one that scythes out of the water 100 metres or so away from the boat . |
| 8 | They are prone to picking up camcorder machine and handling noise and are not very good at recording speech if the source is more than a metre or so away from the camera . |
| 9 | Poor little Willie was fairly screaming the place down and banging on the barred window that separated him so carefully from the world . |
| 10 | Yet the book makes no attempt to explain why the rebellious Mr Yeltsin turned out so differently from the establishment Mr Ryzhkov . |
| 11 | On the 12th green second time around he was so far from the hole he decided to use his wedge instead of his putter and took a six-inch divot out of the hallowed ground . |
| 12 | Why was it so far from the road ? |
| 13 | So far from the Church being the possessor and dispenser of the Spirit , as Käsemann would have it with his astonishing reading of primitive Catholicism into Acts ( see Essays on New Testament Themes p.89ff ) , it is the Spirit who energises the evangelism of the Church and drives its often unwilling members into the task for which God laid his hand on them ; mission . |
| 14 | We 're not so far from the border . |
| 15 | There was Maria Filippa , however , looking at him through her glasses which had misted up in horror and grief at his outburst , gulping the air like a fish ; she was not like his sister Rosa , not one of those girls he had to protect from their own compulsions , but his own beloved and burdened wife , so reserved in bed that he even regretted her modesty himself , and so far from the whore he was about to call her , he shuddered from head to foot . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | But almost immediately followed the thought , was Jules really so far from the mark when he described Monsieur Félix as a very attractive man ? |
| 18 | Darlington MP Michael Fallon said it was crazy for the brochure to encourage people to stay so far from the town . |
| 19 | Mr Fallon said it was ‘ crazy ’ for the brochure to encourage people to stay so far from the town . |
| 20 | His answer was so far from the murmuring of her own mind that she could not comprehend what he was saying . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | I , he er wants to have an image about the Labour Party that 's so far from the reality that it 's not true . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | I do n't believe we are so far from the nomad as people in Europe believe . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | It remains a mystery to many why Foxton , a country village so far from the turmoil of industrial England , and on a hillside , should have become the site of so much ingenious canal design . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | It was quite another to feel she had made a complete fool of herself and taken her daughter alone so far from the safety of Four Winds . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | so far from the city and the sea ? |