Example sentences of "[num] [prep] [noun] [adv] from " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | And in Scotland , too ; hundreds of miles away from everyone she knew . |
| 2 | ‘ He is many hundreds of miles away from his family and likes to go home and see his mother and father , who are elderly , ’ said Mr Ripman . |
| 3 | There was one door : set into one of the metal walls , it had an electronic lock that , while not as sophisticated as the transmat , was certainly hundreds of years away from the medieval technology of Arcadia . |
| 4 | They were alone in the middle of acres of oak , hundreds of yards away from the nearest path . |
| 5 | If , for example , the shot is of an expanse of countryside , the camera may be many hundreds of yards away from the main feature , say a group of trees . |
| 6 | A close parallel to the view that it is wrong to record speakers without their knowledge may be found in the controversy which has surrounded the use of telephoto lenses in photography ; these ‘ spy ’ lenses are capable of taking photographs hundreds of yards away from the subject ( Greenhill , Murray and Spence 1977 : 18 ) . |
| 7 | But the Kylie story really starts thousand of miles away from Bethlehem Hospital , way down in the Welsh valleys … |
| 8 | In the early days of the Space Rush , there was no reason to go and build hundreds of millions of kilometres away from everyone else . |
| 9 | Hence Mr Bush 's decision in 1989 to edge away from pure Reaganism by asking his energy secretary , James Watkins , to put together a national energy strategy . |
| 10 | It is quite clear , however , that marked deformation does in fact occur within some continental regions which are thousands of kilometres away from the nearest plate boundary . |
| 11 | But the fact that the effects of plate interactions can extend for thousands of kilometres away from plate boundaries , as we have seen in the case of the Tibetan Plateau and central Asia ( see Section 3.4.4.2 ) , shows that this is certainly not the case . |
| 12 | The hearings system is claimed to have turned thousands of youngsters away from a life of crime over the last 20 years , but because of the confidential nature of the work done by reporters and panel members , much of the evidence is anecdotal . |
| 13 | The centre of Manchester was sealed off as police shepherded thousands of workers away from their city offices . |
| 14 | The turning point came when , thousands of miles away from the series ’ Melbourne home , the then controller of the BBC 's main channel ripped up his schedules in a bid to beat plunging ratings . |
| 15 | The last two points highlight the fact that economic problems and policies of major countries , e.g. , USA , Japan and West Germany , can influence the livelihoods of nations and people many thousands of miles away from policy-making centres . |
| 16 | For Hester , the problem was compounded by the fact that she was thousands of miles away from Thomas . |
| 17 | For you sit here , thousands of miles away from Palestine , a land which most of you will never see , and yet which you will certainly pay for-with your money , yes , and some of you with your blood and sweat — you sit here and you listen to me as I tell you about this impossible , this ridiculous dream , and it does n't occur to you that we are all mad , you and I and all our people ? ’ |
| 18 | These deposits , thousands of miles inland from the nearest sea , indicate a period during which vast lakes developed . |