Example sentences of "[be] [adv] far removed from the " in BNC.

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1 These may all be worthy aims , but they are so far removed from the reality of most house officers ' experiences as to be laughable .
2 The clinical teachers tended to be so far removed from the key issues in healthcare that unless students performed allocated nursing ‘ tasks ’ in the standard way , they were viewed as ‘ poor ’ material .
3 But to overhear Jean and Peggy saying those things about Paula was somehow almost worse , for in her heart Sally knew they were not far removed from the truth .
4 Germany between the wars felt a sharpening of the internal contradictions by which it lived , but it is doubtful that the people concerned ever had a clear understanding of what was happening because the tensions were buried deep within the very fabric of the Reich and because the form and pattern of struggles that resulted from these tensions were always far removed from the real heart of the matter .
5 Your implication that the high handed attitude of the LTA has contributed to the demise of junior tennis in this country is so far removed from the truth that I believe it bears some examination .
6 One of the difficulties is that the end state is so far removed from the average child that it is very difficult for them to see why they have to learn to read , but if they can realize that if they learn to read in those houses where they have it they 'll be able to read the Radio Times and know what the television programmes are , that at least is motivating .
7 One of the difficulties is that the end state is so far removed from the average child that it is very difficult for them to see why they have to learn to read , but if they can realize that if they learn to read in those houses where they have it they 'll be able to read the Radio Times and know what the television programmes are , that at least is motivating .
8 This tendency in their poetry is not far removed from the ‘ incarnational ’ quality of some women 's poetry in the century .
9 Indeed , the beginning of the period is as far removed from the end of it as we human beings are removed from it in history .
10 WordStar for Windows 1.5 , however , is as far removed from the DOS WordStars as it is possible to be .
11 From the foregoing , it will be clear that the nature of AEA 's business is now far removed from the original nuclear mission .
12 It is too far removed from the contempt which he once showed his brother to be simply that .
13 The one is too far removed from the other to present an acceptable balance of character .
14 It should be emphasised , however , that although in a sense Spinoza recommends the ethical precepts he endorses to each of us as what we will accept if we act with a view to our own best interest , these best interests are conceived in a way which is very far removed from the goals of what is commonly called egoism .
15 Of course I doubt that they will because they are too far removed from the commercial realities of life .
16 Since that hope was so far removed from the reality of what had actually happened , Rory felt a peculiar desire to giggle .
17 The gospel of surfing was not far removed from the Old Testament account of Creation : In the beginning was the wave : God was both shaper and surfer .
18 competent enough vignettes of the witty , intelligent circles in which one might expect to discover Miss Iris Murdoch , and their end result was not far removed from the sum of of [ sic ] the parts of Miss Murdoch 's own elegant conundrums .
19 The philosopber-king was not far removed from the priest-king .
20 There were many traditional features in his films and his whole approach to a story was never far removed from the conventions of melodrama , but what Griffith was able to do was to shift the action of any of his films to whatever chapter of history or social setting that his plot or theme required .
21 By the time Robert III came to the throne in 1390 , Dundonald Castle was probably about 250 years old and below the standard required for a royal residence ; in any case , it was too far removed from the principal seats of government and power , such as Edinburgh and Stirling , to be a permanent royal household .
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