Example sentences of "so [adv] [vb pp] from " in BNC.

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1 But it is gon na be a lengthy er injury and that is a major blow so successfully converted from centre half to striker .
2 Waiting to go into hospital was devoted largely to the consideration of this strange disease that had so suddenly materialized from nowhere , secreted itself in my hitherto unglamorous , unblemished , unconsidered inside and now threatened me .
3 When one tries to analyse the real reasons for the respect which French cookery has so long exacted from the rest of the world , the French genius for presentation must be counted as a very relevant point , and its humble beginnings can be seen on the market stalls , i the small town charcutiers ' and pâtissiers ' shops , in the modest little restaurants where even if the cooking is not particularly distinguished , the most ordinary of little dishes will be brought to your table with respect , properly arranged on a serving dish , the vegetables separately served , the object of arousing your appetite will be achieved and the proprietors of the establishment will have made the most of their limited resources .
4 The first was a pang of sorrowing sympathy with the bereaved and weeping parents ; but this was quickly succeeded by a thrill of holy joy that the lovely flower , which was just permitted to take a glimpse of earth , was so soon removed from all earthly contamination !
5 This wild and wayward child of the Prophets — ‘ a Daniel come to Judgment ’ — needed the thick padded hide of the antediluvian monster , whose maw he had so precipitately fled from .
6 Unlike Rohan , she was n't convinced that Antoinette could be so easily dismissed from their lives .
7 Though not so easily seen from the east , the tops of some caravans are visible from the road climbing from Amroth Castle to Marros .
8 How come you are so easily spared from the company which employs you ? ’
9 It must be its isolation which has kept them so unreasonably concealed from common knowledge .
10 Balor had never been so rudely awoken from slumber in his life .
11 Colours are plain and strong which , despite the underlying sketchiness , makes the picture less ephemeral than it seems in black and white and so further removed from the heavenly evocation of ‘ The Zone of Love ’ .
12 Robbie nodded , mentally apologising to him for all the scathing epithets that had so nearly tumbled from her lips .
13 They also acted for the Trust which owns Canova 's ‘ Three Graces ’ , so nearly exported from the United Kingdom in 1989 , and for Lord Northampton in his acquisition of part of the Roman Sevso treasure , at present the subject of a legal dispute in the New York courts .
14 This was important , because it showed that it was not a protein , and so clearly differed from lysozyme .
15 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 .
16 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 .
17 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 .
18 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 .
19 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 .
20 It should be noted that the largest threat to totalizing control of schools in Ireland has so far come from the integrated schooling movement .
21 To Giles I 'm a ‘ Jeremiah ’ who should be capable of ‘ an act of faith ’ — act of lunacy , more like ; to Hans Haenlein and others I 've got incredibly deep pockets ; to Peter Davey , for whom I voted and who is now so far removed from ‘ the cultural gangsters ’ as to be a cultural kamikaze pilot , I need ‘ a heroic proposal ’ ; to Mervyn Miller I should n't ‘ surrender my birthright ’ — but I may have to sell it .
22 So far removed from normal sense that when he rang the bell at Nutty 's house and her father came down in his dressing-gown thinking it must be the police , he did not understand the excitement .
23 The forces that we are dealing with are so far removed from what we regard as the material world that they will completely revolutionize physics and philosophy and bring about a profound change in humanity 's perception of reality .
24 There seemed little else that he could do , but it was so far removed from his own branch of medicine , so alien to anything he could have foreseen happening to Celia .
25 Your implication that the high handed attitude of the LTA has contributed to the demise of junior tennis in this country is so far removed from the truth that I believe it bears some examination .
26 In Germany just after the First World War , for example , working class organisations were so far removed from both the objective interests of the class and the concern of its members that they were incapable of seizing the revolutionary opportunities open to them .
27 These may all be worthy aims , but they are so far removed from the reality of most house officers ' experiences as to be laughable .
28 The clinical teachers tended to be so far removed from the key issues in healthcare that unless students performed allocated nursing ‘ tasks ’ in the standard way , they were viewed as ‘ poor ’ material .
29 Our own children are now so far removed from danger , at least of the primal kind , and these Masai are so close to it , that you would expect them to be cowed and fearful .
30 The detective story with an interesting background is not so far removed from the classical original .
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