Example sentences of "[conj] not far [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of Britain 's dependent peoples saw the presence of British troops close by , and not far away in the United Kingdom , as the assurance they needed of continuing British protection . |
| 2 | You can take a day trip to visit Wanlockhead , the highest village in Scotland , with its Museum of Lead Mining , where you can visit an underground mine gallery , and not far away , Drumlanrig Castle , the magnificent 17th-century home of the Duke of Buccleuch and Queensbury . |
| 3 | A few years before and not far away , the abbey of Quarr , on the Isle of Wight , had been licensed to crenellate its buildings . |
| 4 | One sees huge deposits , such as the high cliffs of gravel around Embrun in the French Alps , and not far away , the heap of great boulders at Claps de Luc , where half a mountain fell into the valley of the Drome one wet afternoon in 1442 ( plate 5.2 ) . |
| 5 | There 's Prince Charles estate at Highgrove house near Tetbury , Princess Anne 's home at Gatcombe Park , and not far away , the Prince and Princess Michael of Kent 's house at Nether Lypiatt . |
| 6 | There are no elevating thoughts about money , all the emotions aroused by it are bad ; pride and miserliness and greed are quickly followed by fear of losing the money , and not far behind is likely to be the emotion of jealously because money is a relative thing and seldom does a rich man not find someone still richer to be jealous of . |
| 7 | Distinctly I heard the pop of gunfire , one , two , three shots , not nearby , but not far away either . |
| 8 | But not far away stand other hills to which I do not lift my eyes . |
| 9 | Usually in open country fairly near fresh water , but not far up in hills or in towns ; nests colonially in holes excavated in sand and gravel banks . |
| 10 | But not far behind in the firing line are welfare-dependent single-parent families , now so used to being vilified it seems time to offer a blindfold and last cigarette . |
| 11 | As you knit , the needles that are selected to tuck move forward of the needlebed far enough to collect the yarn , but not far enough for the stitch on the needle to go behind the latch and knit off . |
| 12 | That is , they will move forward far enough to collect a loop of yarn ( if we were knitting ) , but not far enough for a stitch to go behind the latch and knit . |
| 13 | ‘ Maastricht went too far for public opinion , but not far enough to allow Europe to deal effectively with the problems it faces , such as Yugoslavia , ’ says an exasperated German official . |
| 14 | The move was far enough in suggest the future transfer of greater validation responsibility in institutions , but not far enough to suggest the degree of autonomy that many of the polytechnic directors had sought . |
| 15 | My argument is that statecentrism , whether in its directly state-centrist form or in indirect forms , takes us quite far but not far enough . |
| 16 | So I would say that the North Yorkshire er figure in summary , goes in the right direction but not far enough . |
| 17 | In 1985 their Peshmerga ( guerrilla fighters ) were encamped here under Baghdad 's protection while not far away were the still-insurgent Peshmerga of the PUK . |
| 18 | While not far away at what was once Bloxham railway station , the steam era is long gone . |
| 19 | For him this was a move in the right direction , though not far enough . |