Example sentences of "[noun] was a long [noun sg] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | But on a spring day in the late 1700s , toil was a long way from John Binks ' mind . |
| 2 | Practice was a long way from the standard understanding of the concept of budgets based on explicit workloads and levels of activity . |
| 3 | The cause of the crash was a long way from BCCI 's original aim of becoming a bank for Muslims which would link the developing world and transfer wealth from the west to the Third World . |
| 4 | The dock of a criminal court was a long way from the line ups Guppy is used to . |
| 5 | The Border was a long way from the intrigues of the Court in London , a good thing at times but a disadvantage if one were planning a profitable intrigue of one 's own . |
| 6 | Fiji 's scintillating performance was a long way from their fumbling 15-aside showing in France during the World Cup and one of their newcomers , Mesake Rasari , ensured the player of the tournament award by scoring three tries against New Zealand . |
| 7 | The principle indicated in those cases was a long way from the circumstances of the present case and was far from warranting the conclusion that by making a photocopy of a document which in the hands of the maker of the photocopy was not privileged , and then sending the photocopy to a solicitor for the purposes of obtaining advice , privilege was thereby cast on the copy sent to the soicitor . |