Example sentences of "be far [prep] [being] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Let me say straight away that I am far from being a male chauvinist ( many of my girlfriends over the years have been females ) , indeed the very first person to introduce me to canoeing was Marianne Tucker who subsequently represented England in the 1960 Olympics . |
| 2 | of course librarians are far from being a heterogeneous group , and there need be no doubt that all types of personality and approach are represented within the profession . |
| 3 | Awe-inspiring in size and design , often with highly decorated interiors and fine chapels , they are far from being the forbidding and depressing places one might expect . |
| 4 | George moved to Sheffield to play for The Wednesday in the summer of 1925 but his 48 goals for us in the higher divisions , scored generally when we were far from being a great side , were easily our best tally in the period 1921–5 and have only ever been bettered by Mark Bright and Ian Wright . |
| 5 | They were far from being a pretty sight but he forced himself to carry out as thorough an investigation as he could . |
| 6 | In the event , wiser counsels prevailed ; the proposals that had emerged by the summer of 1989 from the subject working parties and the National Curriculum Council were far from being the national syllabuses that had at first seemed likely . |
| 7 | The German urban commercial and industrial middle classes , unlike the rural peasantry , were far from being the cowed , feudal illiterates that the Junkers would have liked them to be . |
| 8 | At £95 this is far from being a cheap fleece . |
| 9 | ‘ The Holiday Inn is far from being a cheap hotel , ’ was all I could think of to say . |
| 10 | Curing time nevertheless remains one of the barriers to composites ' mass production , even though , as Lotus 's Albert Adams is quick to point out , what comes out of a steel press is far from being a complete car body . |
| 11 | I suggested a second or so ago that the ordinary reader , unsure of what to make of the shifting realities of Joyce 's writing , might defensively assume that no such hesitations would trouble the experienced reader , but that is far from being a homogeneous class . |
| 12 | While this does provide a demonstration of the sort of facilities that a drawing package could provide it is far from being a good example . |
| 13 | However , the disruptions in chronology and the mixture of writings suggest that this is far from being a reactionary return to a more traditional form ; indeed , these two works are grouped under the title Romanesques , further contravening the reader 's conventional expectations of an autobiography as a revelation of some truth . |
| 14 | While the Court of Appeal is ultimately responsible for establishing the tariff , this is far from being a cut-and-dried list of appropriate penalties . |
| 15 | Scholes 's case is the more telling in that he is far from being a conservative opponent of all recent developments in theory ; he has written favourably of structuralism , and unsympathetically about fictional realism ( for which , indeed , he has been attacked by Tallis ) , and elsewhere in Textual Power he finds deconstructive reading — as opposed to the theory underlying it — a useful critical method . |
| 16 | The David of 2 Samuel is far from being an exemplary character , yet here in the gloom of the surrounding narrative we have a bright flash of faith , wisdom and humility . |
| 17 | Copious information is far from being an unmixed blessing to the recent historian . |
| 18 | The data for this elaboration come mainly from a participant observation study at Oxford United and from conversations at a local youth club , but data from other grounds are included to show that Oxford United is far from being an isolated case . |
| 19 | This concern over the movements of foreigners is far from being an isolated example of its kind . |
| 20 | My submission is that the identification and analysis of the two key features mentioned above indicate that it is a right which is far from being the general bulwark it purports to be . |
| 21 | It is certainly true that it can be used in this way but it is far from being the only way to use video in the classroom — particularly in language teaching . |
| 22 | But the use of violence to restrict democracy , though it is still very prevalent in some regions of the world , is far from being the only means by which such limitations are imposed . |
| 23 | The economic and social instability of Eastern Europe seems likely to be a major political factor over the medium-term future , but it is far from being the only element of instability in the present world system . |
| 24 | The obvious relevance to oceanography has already been mentioned , but it is far from being the only field of application . |
| 25 | The choice of a slow , careful style is made for the sake of convenience and simplicity ; learners of English need to be aware of the fact that this style is far from being the only one they will meet , and teachers of English to foreigners should do their best to expose their pupils to other varieties . |
| 26 | That this border was far from being a black-white confrontation was proved conclusively by the large anti-SWAPO vote in the subsequent internationally sponsored elections which denied SWAPO outright power over independent Namibia . |
| 27 | For although purporting to provide a degree of public participation in the making of a major policy decision , detailed examination of the institutional machinery provided by the government revealed that it was far from being a neutral forum in which the choice of options remained open until determined by the Inquiry . |
| 28 | Though it was far from being a great film it altered the boundaries and opened the way for the New Wave of realism , cinema vérité . |
| 29 | Yet he was far from being a conventional man of business . |
| 30 | Yet the High Authority was far from being a sovereign body . |