Example sentences of "not far from the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He seems to have been an influence on Innocent and we are almost surely not far from the mark in imagining long discussions between the three on theology and politics . |
| 2 | Owen had taken a house in the old part of the city not far from the Mar Girgis . |
| 3 | It 's conveniently close to the village centre , and not far from the tennis and swimming pool complex . |
| 4 | This is a smart modern pension which offers excellent value for money , and is conveniently situated not far from the resort 's two cable cars and the centre . |
| 5 | Our home for the week was the Gasthof Traube , not far from the resort of Lech where Prince Charles and other celebrities go skiing . |
| 6 | In Langbaurgh , he spent much of the bleak winter at South Gare , a blustery headland that juts into the North Sea not far from the resort of Redcar . |
| 7 | His mother , Monica , aged 80 , who now lives next door to him in Wheatlands , not far from the school , was a primary school teacher and his late father a railway signalman . |
| 8 | To be held on Sunday , 28th February at the Spencer Dance Centre , ( not far from the Crystal Palace ) Cost £3.00 send cheques ( made payable to ‘ Movement and Dance Liaison Group ’ ) with S.A.E. to Hilary Weedon if travel directions are required . |
| 9 | Spectators on a blustery day not far from The Wash were rewarded for their dedication . |
| 10 | He died in Caernarfon 29 September 1954 , and was buried at Llanddeiniolen graveyard , not far from the yew tree which is the subject of one of his most celebrated poems . |
| 11 | We settled instead for a three-hour five-course fish lunch at the Mont Frety in town , not far from the cablecar station . |
| 12 | She saw two figures bending over a patch towards the back ; not far from the pit she and Pat and Jim had dug , though a big hedge stood between . |
| 13 | Led by this hint they opened the ground not far from the wall ; and not much more than a foot away from the surface they found a leaden envelope which they opened in two places , on the face and breast , and found it contained a human body wrapped in cerecloth : Upon removing what covered the face , they discovered the features , and particularly the eyes , in perfect preservation . |
| 14 | We had driven through Boston with its ‘ stump ’ , the incongruously tall church tower visible for miles , and then parked in a car park not far from the wall . |
| 15 | In February 1988 , the Church of the Stork 's Nest , on the corner of Stirbei Voda and Strada Berzei , not far from the shell of the new National History Museum , could be seen moving to a new resting place in order to improve the angle of the street . |
| 16 | Until removed to another site during the recent redevelopment in Croydon , the ‘ Greyhound ’ public house stood on the east side of the High Street , not far from the Crown Hill intersection . |
| 17 | After only a few months there I located an even better one on the ground floor of a house at the corner of Jervis and Georgia Streets , not far from the CBC studios . |
| 18 | The automobile has turned the city inside out , ranging new communities around the periphery and letting the centre rot : not far from the centre is an old slum district where the gangs operate . |
| 19 | This evening I find myself settled here in this comfortable guest house in a street not far from the centre of Salisbury . |
| 20 | The gaol was situated not far from the centre of a large and fast-growing industrial town . |
| 21 | Denis Taylor : ‘ We decided we were going to have a new singer and hold auditions , the idea being that we would go to the old club we used to play in called La Discothéque , which was in Wardour Street , not far from the Whiskey-a-GoGo . |
| 22 | There was also a Methodist chapel in Rimswell , built in 1899 not far from the church , until 1966 when it was imaginatively converted into a comfortable home . |
| 23 | Along with another family , we will be staying in small chalets at a conference centre , not far from the church where the rest of the group will stay . |
| 24 | Not far from the river stood a statue to General Humbert , with Irish words underneath , and verses from a ballad . |
| 25 | He had seen a boat with a man in it , not far from the beach . |
| 26 | Not far from the citadel , should you choose to cross over to that less appealing side of Bayonne , is a small English war cemetery that dates back to the siege . |
| 27 | Even Ivanovka , the only village not far from the Moscow railway line , had received its last single copy of a newspaper some months prior to Yakovlev 's visit . |
| 28 | Trade with China from the Malay Peninsula and Borneo by the fifth century is well-documented ; the Philippines were involved shortly afterwards , while rice had been cultivated on Luzon , not far from the Negrito sites , since at least l400BC ; linguistic evidence also suggests long interdependence . |
| 29 | She found two seats free not far from the Lorrimores and , putting herself on one chair and her handbag on the other , said with bonhomie to the elderly couple already occupying the table , ‘ I 'm Daffodil Quentin . |
| 30 | She had found a little beach not far from the lodge , but hard enough to reach that she was mostly by herself . |