Example sentences of "[adv] far [verb] from [art] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Secondly , many of the ideas presented so far derive from a particular perspective in sociology which has been subject to the criticisms noted above . |
| 2 | With the pitiless unknowing complacency and contempt of the young , Nicandra resented their trivial employments of time , so far distanced from the terrible hazards of loving . |
| 3 | It should be noted that the largest threat to totalizing control of schools in Ireland has so far come from the integrated schooling movement . |
| 4 | Your implication that the high handed attitude of the LTA has contributed to the demise of junior tennis in this country is so far removed from the truth that I believe it bears some examination . |
| 5 | These may all be worthy aims , but they are so far removed from the reality of most house officers ' experiences as to be laughable . |
| 6 | The clinical teachers tended to be so far removed from the key issues in healthcare that unless students performed allocated nursing ‘ tasks ’ in the standard way , they were viewed as ‘ poor ’ material . |
| 7 | The detective story with an interesting background is not so far removed from the classical original . |
| 8 | Since that hope was so far removed from the reality of what had actually happened , Rory felt a peculiar desire to giggle . |
| 9 | One of the difficulties is that the end state is so far removed from the average child that it is very difficult for them to see why they have to learn to read , but if they can realize that if they learn to read in those houses where they have it they 'll be able to read the Radio Times and know what the television programmes are , that at least is motivating . |
| 10 | One of the difficulties is that the end state is so far removed from the average child that it is very difficult for them to see why they have to learn to read , but if they can realize that if they learn to read in those houses where they have it they 'll be able to read the Radio Times and know what the television programmes are , that at least is motivating . |
| 11 | This is the earliest formulation of quarantine regulations and preventive medicine relating to these diseases so far recovered from the ancient Near East . |
| 12 | ‘ 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 . |
| 13 | Long before 1914 the great symbol of the social triumph that the showmen had pulled off was the new purpose-built and well-appointed movie theatre , a structure already far removed from the arcade and the nickelodeon . |
| 14 | Not far distanced from the council , in England at any rate , was Parliament , dominated for much of the fourteenth century by the peerage ; and in that body , too , matters of policy and national finance were frequently discussed , for it was there that kings liked to benefit from the practical experience of men who had taken an active part in war . |
| 15 | Virtually all the accounts we have suggest that the public schools , in spite of Arnold 's efforts , continued to exist in something not far removed from a Hobbesian state of nature — or rather , just far enough removed to allow for the development of tribal ritual . |
| 16 | Indeed , Kant and Hegel 's accounts of the relation between man and wife in love-making are actually not far removed from a description of pornographic eroticism . |
| 17 | Supporters of official forecasts say the 1982–86 recovery saw an average annual growth rate of 3 per cent — not far removed from the 3.1 per cent average implied by the Treasury over the five years to 1996–97 . |
| 18 | This tendency in their poetry is not far removed from the ‘ incarnational ’ quality of some women 's poetry in the century . |
| 19 | The gospel of surfing was not far removed from the Old Testament account of Creation : In the beginning was the wave : God was both shaper and surfer . |
| 20 | But to overhear Jean and Peggy saying those things about Paula was somehow almost worse , for in her heart Sally knew they were not far removed from the truth . |
| 21 | The resulting " Ohmannized " Faulkner consists of a sequence of short , atomic sentences , not far removed from the most elementary sentences , or KERNEL sentences , " postulated by the theory of Transformational Grammar that Ohmann uses . |
| 22 | competent enough vignettes of the witty , intelligent circles in which one might expect to discover Miss Iris Murdoch , and their end result was not far removed from the sum of of [ sic ] the parts of Miss Murdoch 's own elegant conundrums . |
| 23 | The philosopber-king was not far removed from the priest-king . |
| 24 | When an hypothesis that has successfully withstood a wide range of rigorous tests is eventually falsified , a new problem , hopefully far removed from the original solved problem , has emerged . |
| 25 | Germany between the wars felt a sharpening of the internal contradictions by which it lived , but it is doubtful that the people concerned ever had a clear understanding of what was happening because the tensions were buried deep within the very fabric of the Reich and because the form and pattern of struggles that resulted from these tensions were always far removed from the real heart of the matter . |
| 26 | In any case , during the eighteenth century the basic manufacturing sectors were dominated by noblemen , socially far removed from the merchants . |
| 27 | The result of the battle seems rather far removed from the issues facing the world today . |
| 28 | King , therefore , sold the Southern shares to D C Thomson of Dundee — about as far removed from a ‘ regional ’ interest as could be imagined . |
| 29 | La Cage aux Folles A gay film , certainly ; but as far removed from the work of Derek Jarman as one can get without actually leaving this solar system . |
| 30 | Indeed , the beginning of the period is as far removed from the end of it as we human beings are removed from it in history . |