Example sentences of "[noun pl] [am/are] a long way from " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anne was right in saying that ‘ you tend to lose the origin of it ’ ; the origins are a long way from what remains , but it does not really matter . |
| 2 | ‘ And the Buskett Gardens are a long way from the back streets of Valletta . ’ |
| 3 | Such ideas are a long way from the truth ; Paul was a Christian , just like us . |
| 4 | That the social sciences are a long way from devising scales which even approximate to the temperature scale is not to be wondered at . |
| 5 | Glasgow 's bars are a long way from London café society , and what fascinates Scottish painter Hugh Byars is the humanity behind the faces . |
| 6 | The only other sense man has had any success in recording and reproducing on its own is sight , although moving pictures and videos are a long way from fooling the human eye in quite the way sound can fool the ear . |