Example sentences of "far [verb] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | And if you 're still mired in sentimentality , look at it this way : the admission fees so far received from visitors to the carp pond have already enabled the Boy Scouts to build and maintain several church halls in the area . |
| 2 | With the kind of support so far received from SOED and SRC , the indications are that the learning and teaching of modern languages will become increasingly effective — especially for those children in need of support . |
| 3 | The first fear , the first knowledge that involvement was real and personal and far distanced from a glass of beer and a sandwich in a pub across the Thames . |
| 4 | Sotheby 's continues its cost-cutting format of having multiple lot colour illustrations far distanced from the cataloguing , much to the irritation of buyers who were seen constantly frantically flipping back and forth . |
| 5 | Not far distanced from the council , in England at any rate , was Parliament , dominated for much of the fourteenth century by the peerage ; and in that body , too , matters of policy and national finance were frequently discussed , for it was there that kings liked to benefit from the practical experience of men who had taken an active part in war . |
| 6 | With the pitiless unknowing complacency and contempt of the young , Nicandra resented their trivial employments of time , so far distanced from the terrible hazards of loving . |
| 7 | It should be noted that the largest threat to totalizing control of schools in Ireland has so far come from the integrated schooling movement . |
| 8 | In another version of this theme family law stands accused of having so far departed from principle and precedent as to be arbitrary , thereby losing its claim to guide conduct . |
| 9 | It had stood idle and decaying since 1914 and had lost most of its floors and part of the roof-a far cry from today 's substantial and elegant building that now houses the Cotswold Country Museum . |
| 10 | A far , far cry from stilted Sandringham . |
| 11 | Our hypothetical cavedwellers with their universal explanation that ‘ the gods did it ’ are not too far separated from the modem Westerner who believes that the Soviet Union is an unalleviatedly ‘ evil empire ’ or that Blacks are inferior to Whites : all three explanations are easy to take on board , they are much simpler than the arguments put forward by the people who disagree with them , and , once accepted , they are clung to with a limpet-like grip . |
| 12 | ‘ So far comments from Com Tech and MUA suggest that SCO will still be sold by both companies , but neither tried to shy away from the fact that their decisions will hurt SCO . |
| 13 | Neither of her parents were church-goers and her father had so far lapsed from his native Catholicism as to despise and detest ‘ the whole primitive priestly caboodle ’ , as he called it . |
| 14 | This is the earliest formulation of quarantine regulations and preventive medicine relating to these diseases so far recovered from the ancient Near East . |
| 15 | Your environment includes some pretty harsh realities , far divorced from pronking gazelles , or the tracery of veins on a leaf . |
| 16 | Secondly , many of the ideas presented so far derive from a particular perspective in sociology which has been subject to the criticisms noted above . |
| 17 | Had Greenaway wished to depict the chic cuisine of the moment , he should have chosen ‘ Cuisine de Terroir ’ ( food of the earth ) — solid , gutsy , grandmother 's cooking very far removed from the nouvelle fantasia we see here . |
| 18 | Some have suggested that his appointment at Berlin was the result of a compromise by the orchestra , an attempt to secure someone as far removed from Karajan in character , musical and personal , as the world could offer . |
| 19 | Even Scotland was far removed from the necessary 40 per cent margin . |
| 20 | He was far removed from the centralism embodied by his predecessors Ernest Bevin and Arthur Deakin . |
| 21 | His criticism of Lévy-Bruhl for overstressing the distance between the savage and the modern mind shows that for Eliot the two were linked , but Lévy-Bruhl 's stress on the different , apparently unreasonable nature of the savage leads to the modern Sweeney whose world is far removed from the sweet reason of Emerson . |
| 22 | Gironella is far removed from such light humour . |
| 23 | Sex-plumbing and sex-fun seems far , far removed from the complex business we now all say it is . |
| 24 | Despite Berkeley 's claim that ‘ we do at all times and in all places perceive manifest tokens of the divinity ’ , the important place occupied by God in his philosophy will inevitably seem as far removed from immediate experience as the material world of seventeenth-century philosophy seemed to Berkeley . |
| 25 | Metal extraction was difficult , sources of non-ferrous ores are particularly scarce and these , and the smelting sites , were often far removed from where the majority of the artefacts were eventually used . |
| 26 | It is too far removed from the contempt which he once showed his brother to be simply that . |
| 27 | It stems , therefore , from something primitive and far removed from almost everything else in the Old Testament , with the exception of an even stranger tale in Exodus 4.24–6 . |
| 28 | That would seem to be the case here , where we must remember that the storyteller had as his raw material a tale about a demon far , far removed from the mainstream of Israel 's talk about her God . |
| 29 | Cultivated blackberries are not far removed from their wild parents and do not need much fussy soil preparation . |
| 30 | Zuwaya exchanges , methods of saving , accounting and investing were far removed from those which are used to scourge and oppress workers . |