Example sentences of "[is] not [adv] far " in BNC.
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| 1 | In so far as the interview is a critique of Thatcherism — and that is not as far as might have been supposed from the headlines in yesterday 's papers — it is misplaced . |
| 2 | Antennae keenly tuned by the hopes of lucrative business , the new director , Bernard Herdan , was quoted in the Independent on Sunday as looking forward to even greater wonders : ‘ The day is not too far distant when we will be able to tell the ordinary public whether it is going to rain in their street within the next hour . ’ |
| 3 | You select the facts that are telling ( pun intended ) , the facts that will advance your story or make clear your characters or even make your locations easy to assimilate , and you hope that from them you can produce something that is not too far distant from the unwritable reality . |
| 4 | My car is not too far off . |
| 5 | Is my hon. Friend aware that the residents of West Yorkshire will be pleased to know that a decision on the matter is not too far off ? |
| 6 | The replacement of the ego ideal by the leader is facilitated if the separation of the ego and the ego ideal is not very far advanced among the members of the group . |
| 7 | ‘ As the period of the completion of the undertaking is not now far distant , your Committee have considered of the most eligible mode of appointing medical attendants to the institution ; upon the due and disinterested attention to which most important point its wellbeing and existence so materially depends . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It was of course simple mischance that this rat-tat should happen , even though the kiosk is not so far as I know a particularly busy one . |
| 10 | If the land is not so far ‘ registered ’ ( you solicitor will tell you ) then the Abstract of Title and Deeds will suffice . |
| 11 | You are seeing what is happening in our poor ORIENTAL brother land INDONESIA — DO N'T BE SURPRISED IF THE SAME thing happens in BURMA — SOME DAY — IT IS NOT SO FAR OFF — WE BURMANS AND INDIANS UNITEDLY WILL KICK OUT you blood sucking BRITISHERS AND your GODDAM children the Eurasians — Ho ! |
| 12 | This is not so far away from saying : Blacks are naturally superior in sports and physical endeavours ; whites are naturally superior at intellectual pursuits . |
| 13 | The detective story with an interesting background is not so far removed from the classical original . |
| 14 | Henry Mansel the philosopher-theologian after all published in 1858 The Limits of Religious Thought arguing that we can know almost nothing positive about God ; this God is not so far from Tyndall 's inscrutable Power . |
| 15 | ‘ Talisker is not so far from Merkadale , and it is the largest population centre in Minginish . |
| 16 | Mixing paints is not so far from the pre-Mendelian vision of heredity , and even today popular culture frequently expresses heredity in terms of a mixing of ‘ bloods ’ . |
| 17 | I will be able to bring what is going on here in science back to the children in the classroom , and make them realise that it is not so far away from what they are learning about . |
| 18 | I think we would be wise to reflect a little longer and to think that perhaps the Government is not so far wrong in what it is saying and I have to say finally My Lords that I never in my public life , or indeed in my private life have met anybody who has said to me that their attitude towards their local police force has been in any way influenced by the fact that the members of the police authority were or were n't democratically elected . |
| 19 | I suppose whatever happened it 's not right Far too these ones are alright . |
| 20 | No , she 's not that far gone . |
| 21 | ‘ As I said , it 's not that far out my way . ’ |
| 22 | But he added that the auditors ‘ owe duties to the shareholders as a corporate body , which is n't the same as having the shareholders as clients , but it 's not that far removed ’ . |
| 23 | ‘ He 's not that far gone , ’ Gus assured her with unexpected shrewdness . |
| 24 | It 's not as far to Chester as it is to Swansea is it ? |
| 25 | Nice to know it 's not too far distant . |
| 26 | ‘ Her doc , if he 's not too far sunk in slumber or wine . ’ |
| 27 | But it 's strange to think that the day 's not so far away when players like Robert Cray , Bonnie Raitt and Jimmie Vaughan , for so long representatives of the new American blues generation , will themselves be looked on as the elders of the blues . |
| 28 | It 's not so far . |
| 29 | And it 's not so far . |