Example sentences of "[not/n't] far [verb] from [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | This tendency in their poetry is not far removed from the ‘ incarnational ’ quality of some women 's poetry in the century . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The philosopber-king was not far removed from the priest-king . |