Example sentences of "far from [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Napoleon , far from manoeuvring about the Duke 's right flank , had rammed his troops into the seam between the allied armies . |
| 2 | The very existence of a national-territorial framework in the USSR , indeed , far from providing for the peaceful solution of the nationalities question that was originally envisaged , appeared to have led to precisely the opposite result by establishing a form of representation in which sectional interests , denied any other means of expression , could in practice take only the form of ‘ nationalism ’ . |
| 3 | There is an elective affinity between this cultural vision and the religious vision of the Roman catholic church prior to the second Vatican Council , in its exclusivist attitude towards other Christian churches , an attitude which is far from overcome at the level of popular Roman catholicism . |
| 4 | The work of Peter Townsend and others showed that , far from presiding over the elimination of poverty , the Wilson Government actually failed to prevent some of its features from worsening ( Townsend and Bosanquet , 1972 ) . |
| 5 | The absence of lamellipodia tallies with another observation : when we grafted a small patch of embryonic skin onto a denuded region of the limb bud surface , we found that the grafted epidermis , far from expanding over the adjacent vacant territory , actually retracted , leaving its own mesenchyme exposed . |
| 6 | Far from talking of the plutonium problem , desperate Russian nuclear engineers , encouraged by the plutonium industry in France and Britain , want to begin a new programme to build fast reactors running on plutonium , undaunted by difficulties the West has had with such technology . |
| 7 | The brutal , underlining truth of this contest is that , though Labour was bitterly disappointed by the election , the Kinnock line of disciplined moderation has earned 41 more seats and the stone , so far from rolling to the bottom of the mountain , is two thirds of the way up . |
| 8 | Far from relying on the merely muscular , grit requires co-ordination , technical ability and nerve in no little measure and , perhaps most elusive of all , what may best be termed as simply a ‘ feel ’ for it . |
| 9 | ‘ Far from departing from the traditional view of the relationship between ranks , the moment has come for a return to it , ’ said Mr Roach . |
| 10 | Far from letting down the side , Shocked is projecting a freshly combative image . |