Example sentences of "far [verb] from [pron] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both Soviet and American leaders , by the late 1980s , had a common interest in a negotiated end to the Iran-Iraq war and in an international agreement guaranteeing freedom of movement in the Persian Gulf , but neither could necessarily manipulate events in the region to its advantage and neither , perhaps , quite understood the nature of a popular movement so far removed from its own cultural assumptions . |
| 2 | Some readers may get no further than the title of this book suggesting , as it seems to , something austere , authoritarian , Catholic and far removed from their own experience ! |
| 3 | He had guessed that this place was a palace to her , and she wondered suddenly if she was a complete fool even to consider getting mixed up in his world , when it was so far removed from her own . |
| 4 | To understand the primitive way of life , or the way of life of a society far removed from our own , it is necessary for us to extend our way of life into the orbit of the form of life of that society , rather than bring the form of life of that society into the orbit of our own . |
| 5 | Under this new dispensation things foreign and far removed from our own polluted urban world acquire all exotic piquancy , an exciting glamour , which causes them to be approached with a mixture of reverence and hope . |
| 6 | These examples of animal senses are relatively easy for us to comprehend as they are not too far removed from our own experience . |
| 7 | There seemed little else that he could do , but it was so far removed from his own branch of medicine , so alien to anything he could have foreseen happening to Celia . |