Example sentences of "far from [be] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Far from being sport , it 's his job to keep herds in check and make sure these ‘ sportsmen ’ do n't leave an animal wounded and in pain from their hopeless attempts to shoot it , and his respect for living things is acute . |
| 2 | Far from being rest days , the festivals of the church were times of heightened activity , in an atmosphere redolent of older , grander , more disciplined ways . |
| 3 | Observations of European wild cats , which belong to the same species as the domestic cat , reveal that , far from being kitten-killers , the males sometimes actively participate in rearing the young . |
| 4 | Far from being models of scientific progress , such theories are not properly scientific at all . |
| 5 | Far from being socialists , Adam Smith and Ricardo , Richard Cobden , Norman Angell and Maynard Keynes are doctrinaire liberals , conscious opponents or socialism … . |
| 6 | In this case quality and efficiency , far from being alternatives , go hand in hand . |
| 7 | Determined to let Rune 's volatile lover know the truth — that , far from being lovers themselves , she and Rune were nothing more than strangers linked by a common family crisis — she began firmly , ‘ Look , Lotta — there 's something you should know . |
| 8 | Some of the correspondents have misunderstood the point of the case histories in the articles in this series : far from being examples of perfect treatment , they are examples of problems that commonly arise . |
| 9 | Far from being modifications to Freud , Talcott Parsons 's changes to the theory remove the whole purpose of sociologists turning to Freud in order to move away from the over-socialized conception of man . |
| 10 | Far from being device neutral , the image file is usually coded in a way which reflects the device which first produced it . |