Example sentences of "as [adv] from [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The former communist states of eastern Europe are not suffering as badly from pollution as is widely believed , according to a study by Professor Gordon Hughes of Edinburgh University . |
| 2 | My primeval instincts should have been satisfied , yet I as far from content . |
| 3 | One of the problems is that these moult-sites are usually as far from man 's activities as possible , often near remote skerries , headlands or small uninhabited islands , and this necessitates the use of a boat in most cases . |
| 4 | And even when it became clearer — in a purely physical sense — as far as understanding it went she was as far from clarity as ever . |
| 5 | In 1675 the Lords of Trade had ten colonies on the North American seacoast to think about , stretching roughly from Portsmouth ( in what was still part of Massachusetts ) to Charleston , a length of coast running about as far from north to south as that of Britain . |
| 6 | The constable was transferred to a division as far from home as possible . |
| 7 | ‘ I should thank you though , ’ she said , her tone as far from gratitude as it was possible to get . |
| 8 | The search for a theory that will combine structural explanations in terms of societal forces and psychological explanations in terms of individual attributes is as far from success in this as in all other fields of sociological research . |
| 9 | They claim to be nearer than us to the European consensus , but they are as far from reality as they ever were . |