Example sentences of "are far [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have no difficulty in accepting certain supposedly key Freudian notions , such as the existence of the unconscious mind and its effect on our daily living , and the self-contradictory and self-defeating quality of much human behaviour , but these are far from being original discoveries . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | If we press this and insist on doubting what the humanist holds as indubitable , we uncover a hornet 's nest of assumptions and presuppositions which are far from being rationally indubitable . |
| 4 | But we are far from being at the end of the chain of slimming benefits that are achieved by a diet rich in natural fibre . |
| 5 | They are far from being the same or even similar , and you can check this by comparing the analysis on the packets . |
| 6 | We are far from being able to specify all the things that actually take place in a learning situation , and ( as we saw earlier ) we have little knowledge of the implications of individual difference for our work . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | To Adorno , listeners to popular music are far from being private critical spirits , of course ; they are a passive mass which is prepared to accept standardized musical forms precisely because it is the product of the same processes as the musical forms themselves . |
| 9 | These are far from being solely fact-finding enquiries . |
| 10 | However , despite section 89 , the statutory pre-emptive rights are far from being entrenched ; in certain circumstances they can be modified or waived . |
| 11 | Words , the authors argue , are really a barrier between us and the world ; we can not escape from the structure of our language , and the structure of our language and the structure of the world are far from being identical . |
| 12 | This further implies that nationalism and appeals to common blood and homeland are far from being ‘ old fashioned ’ . |
| 13 | However , manager Brown was full of optimism as he claimed afterwards : ‘ We are far from being dead yet . |