Example sentences of "not [adv] [adv] [vb pp] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We are not perhaps far removed from the time when we shall be able to submit the bulk of chemical phenomena to calculation ’ , he said . |
| 2 | Though not so easily seen from the east , the tops of some caravans are visible from the road climbing from Amroth Castle to Marros . |
| 3 | The detective story with an interesting background is not so far removed from the classical original . |
| 4 | My injuries had not yet completely healed from the last fight , at school , with bully McNab — only three weeks previously . |
| 5 | Maria demanded rudely , not yet fully recovered from the oddly physical shock of seeing him so unexpectedly . |
| 6 | She herself had not yet fully recovered from the trauma of those moments in the lift , but it probably did n't matter . |
| 7 | He says the firm have not yet fully recovered from the high cost of setting up and securing the Stockton site . |
| 8 | Our hypothetical cavedwellers with their universal explanation that ‘ the gods did it ’ are not too far separated from the modem Westerner who believes that the Soviet Union is an unalleviatedly ‘ evil empire ’ or that Blacks are inferior to Whites : all three explanations are easy to take on board , they are much simpler than the arguments put forward by the people who disagree with them , and , once accepted , they are clung to with a limpet-like grip . |
| 9 | Very well , he reasoned , then grog jelly was not too far removed from the mandate he had been given , and no one could object to the addition of a delicious fruit sorbet . |
| 10 | For it was in the western part of Charlemagne 's Empire that a particular combination of conditions — persisting Roman administrative and legal practices , well-organised provincial churches with longstanding traditions of conciliar meetings and the issuing of legislation , elites long-christianised and committed to their local churches , the written word in a language not too far removed from the spoken vernacular — favoured a particularly strong corporate awareness and activity on the part of churchmen within a group of provinces . |
| 11 | The values underlying Leapor 's poem , however , are not that far removed from the basically conservative view of society advanced in those poems : |
| 12 | The two-hour spectacular took their breath away , even if its plot was not that far removed from the original . |
| 13 | Man was n't very far removed from the animal in that sense . |