Example sentences of "[was/were] a long [noun sg] from [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We tried to solve this with management and supervisory boards based in the department but they were a long way from the boards of industry . |
| 2 | Once again , the alteration which he and Ferguson made together was a long way from a major structural change . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Singapore , however , had one military drawback : it was a long way from the Arabian Peninsula and the Persian Gulf . |
| 5 | Practice was a long way from the standard understanding of the concept of budgets based on explicit workloads and levels of activity . |
| 6 | The dock of a criminal court was a long way from the line ups Guppy is used to . |
| 7 | This was a long way from the ‘ silent suffering ’ and ‘ passive protest ’ which the NCOAP had sought to articulate . |
| 8 | English forces and the New Englanders worked together reasonably well in operations on the seacoast to capture Port Royal in Nova Scotia , but this was a long way from the centre of French settlement and the port was returned at the end of the war . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It was a long way from the back streets of big cities and the criminal set , and even further from the grim-faced soldiers who had guarded her last assignment . |
| 11 | It was a long drive from the airport , made tedious by the unnatural , tense silence in the cab . |
| 12 | It was a long drop from the balcony of the games room ; the castle apothecary carried a line of lethal poisons and draughts ; there were ways out of the castle , a postern or two , and a narrow winding path through the fractured rocks and fallen masonry all tumbled round the castle 's plinthed base like scree , then a long cold walk into the snowy silence … |
| 13 | It was a long walk from the lock , but Harry had made her a box on wheels in which to push the two little girls , Corrie Palmer and her last child , Lily , who was seven months younger . |