Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] back from " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hypocrisy is a key element in this plot , too , with the difference that while they started near the top of society and were on the verge of receiving power at the very beginning , he — as a bastard son who is only just back from having spent nine years abroad ( the typical occupation for one who has no prospect of inheritance in his own country ) and is due to go again — starts very much lower down in society , virtually at the bottom . |
| 2 | In some ways , we 're much further back from the starting line . |
| 3 | In his second novel , The Inheritors , Golding has stood so far back from modern historical progress as to imagine the supersession of innocent , hairy Neanderthalers by ‘ bone-face men ’ in a prehistoric age : they wear clothes or , as the primitive eye sees it , they step outside their skins . |
| 4 | The impression given in both plans is of an exceptionally well proportioned and attractive building placed rather further back from the Carrickblacker Road than the present church . |
| 5 | it 's set far enough back from the road , |
| 6 | The light is quite strongly directional , and to avoid excessive variations in contrast within the depth of the scene you should set the light as far back from the subject as possible within the limits of what is acceptable to give a good exposure , each doubling of the distance reducing the brightness of the scene by a factor of four . |