Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] far [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At least that way there is no way you can be held back by the so-called ‘ glass ceiling ’ — the phrase coined in the United States to describe the invisible barriers that allow women to rise only so far in an organisation . |
| 2 | It was quite another to feel she had made a complete fool of herself and taken her daughter alone so far from the safety of Four Winds . |
| 3 | The real Cardiff Bay barrage story is rather different from the one on the poster ( enough so far for a residents ' association , the Cardiff Flood Action Committee , to have complained to the Advertising Standards Authority , and for the RSPB to be considering following suit ) . |
| 4 | All re even the engine room was steam cos you had the bucket depth of dredging on that ladder was thirty six feet that 's what dredger can go down so far with the buckets going round and they used to dredge about thirty six feet . |
| 5 | His book undoubtedly fills a need ; it may , besides , make you wonder whether we have most of us come all that far since the days of Babbage , the true father of the computer , who recorded in his memoirs that he often used to be asked by the mandarins of the English establishment , when they came to view his difference engine : ‘ Pray , Mr Babbage , if you put into the machine wrong figures , will the right answers come out ? ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Sn-snuggled … ? ’ she spluttered , but , when she thought about it — and with the memory so recent , it took less than a second — she had to concede that perhaps ‘ snuggled ’ was n't so very far off the mark . |
| 7 | He was not really so very far from the camp either . |
| 8 | Which mountains was another question , but they were not so very far from the coast , to judge by how long it had taken to drive here from whatever port they had arrived in . |
| 9 | To say that every inch of siding space must earn its keep by virtue of the traffic it carries is not so very far from the truth . |
| 10 | We also speak of being ‘ consumed ’ with guilt and , although we are not literally eaten away , the phrase is not so very far from the truth when you consider the harmful effect guilt can have on the physical body . |
| 11 | Faldo said : ‘ When you are my height you have a tendency to go down too far on the ball and that is what I was doing . |
| 12 | Erm I see so I 'm not really will make sure that erm that we are kept in touch so that we are not so far down the track but they ca n't be reversed committee as a whole |
| 13 | We 're not so far from the border . |
| 14 | Not so far from the Bishop 's Castle Railway another standard gauge branch line ran between Abermule and Kerry . |
| 15 | Whether or not we accept Eliot 's note that the title of ‘ The Hollow Men ’ draws on both Kipling 's ‘ The Broken Men ’ and Morris 's ‘ The Hollow Land ’ , there is little doubt that this ‘ valley of dying stars ’ is not so far from the landscapes of Victorian romanticism . |
| 16 | ‘ Not so far from the truth . |
| 17 | Doses and lengths of exposure time were high but ‘ not so far from the levels to which some people are exposed , particularly in the workplace ’ . |
| 18 | Behind him the landlord backed away as far along the bar as he could . |
| 19 | And , not too far up the road , we come across The London Hospital , which played host to The Elephant Man . |
| 20 | The Oswaldston Arts Club had an exhibition room , which they called the Lowry Gallery , in the upper storey of a disused warehouse not too far from the centre of town . |
| 21 | It need not be a large bed , but just a suitable corner , not too far from the house ( you must bear in mind the possible weather conditions ) and with reasonably dry access . |
| 22 | On the rear lawn not too far from the house stood a summerhouse . |
| 23 | Have a table with gifts of BREAD AND WINE ( CHALICE ) not too far from the altar . |
| 24 | He and Henry met at Yarramalong ( ask Robert the population , and he just laughs ) — a sparse town north-west of Sydney , 40 minutes from the coast and not too far from the Hunter Valley ( prime wine-making country ) . |
| 25 | One of the most impressive of recent contributions is the meticulously detailed and subtly perceptive work of Professor Victor Turner amongst the Ndembu people , who also live in Central Africa and not very far from the Congo Lele . |
| 26 | In 1935 she was sold on to the ironstone industry in the Cranford area and ended her working life at Byfield in 1963 — ironically not very far from the GCR . |
| 27 | Gary Kelly continues to impress too , though he missed probably the best chance of the night — he broke out in the middle of the pitch , was charging down with only Rik to beat when he nudged the ball just too far at the moment he should have shot past him . |
| 28 | This is in spite of 1992 being the tenth anniversary of shareware 's conception — not that far behind the IBM PC itself . |
| 29 | He gripped the sides of the pulpit between fingers crooked as claws and leaned out so far over the congregation that he was in danger of falling out and landing on his head . |
| 30 | But almost immediately followed the thought , was Jules really so far from the mark when he described Monsieur Félix as a very attractive man ? |