Example sentences of "that [pron] be [adv] from [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My attitude to doctors has been severely changed since then by having a kidney stone diagnosed as psychosomatic and ulcerative colitis as a stomach upset , so that I am far from reverential and have occasionally flirted with contempt unfairly . |
| 2 | But , with a sinking feeling that chilled her more than any explosion of anger on his part , she realised that she was far from sure that such consent would be denied . |
| 3 | But I also knew that she was far from pleased with the arrangements . |
| 4 | Is it the truth that you are not from this world , but from another far away ? ’ |
| 5 | ( 10 ) It 's possible that there 's life on Mars ( 11 ) It 's possible that there 's life on Mars and it 's possible that there is no life on Mars ( 12 ) It 's possible that there 's life on Mars , and in fact it is now certain that there is Now from this set of dilemmas the notion of implicature offers a way out , for it allows one to claim that natural language expressions do tend to have simple , stable and unitary senses ( in many cases anyway ) , but that this stable semantic core of en has an unstable , context-specific pragmatic overlay — namely a set of implicatures . |
| 6 | Variations in all three areas between societies means that they are far from homogeneous ; rather they ‘ consist of patterned yet heterogeneous social practices ’ ( Urry , 1981 , p. 9 ) . |
| 7 | If lifetime employment and seniority wages are seen as key distinguishing characteristics of the Japanese labour market then it has to be recognized that they are far from universal features . |
| 8 | Match these arguments against the criteria with which this chapter began , however , and it will be seen that they are far from conclusive . |
| 9 | Pointing out difficulties is a very common behaviour but is one of the riskier ones because research shows that it is far from certain how people will take it . |
| 10 | The King 's Cross scheme may not be perfect and I respect the views of local Members who say that it is far from perfect . |
| 11 | The example of the a-ray microscope shows that it is far from clear how these two worlds could be juxtaposed without subverting and contradicting the very quantum theory they were invented to explain . |
| 12 | A second objection is that it is far from clear how we would decide , in any principled way , what the participants in a discourse fragment are , in fact , ‘ concentrating ’ on . |
| 13 | It is a sign of the success of this new Nimbus recording that it is far from effaced in such company , and will no doubt win this barnstorming masterwork of late-Romanticism many new friends . |
| 14 | So , as I stood there on Hampstead Heath , I felt that it was just from that point of view that the single surviving Pinus sylvestris was intended to be seen . |
| 15 | Michael Sadleir suggested that it was partly from professional jealousy of his enormous popularity that Marryat 's contemporaries ‘ treated him with patronising tolerance as a jolly tarpaulin who told a rattling good story ’ . |
| 16 | Despite what others may do , one man who has already proved this year that he is far from finished is Joey Dunlop . |
| 17 | His voice was pleasant and indicated that he was n't from this part of the country ; the South , she imagined . |
| 18 | Although Maidstone was now beginning to display the fact that he was far from sober — his walk was a little unsteady and one or two of his words did not come out exactly right — the visit to the hatshop passed off without any untoward incident . |
| 19 | Rune had already demonstrated to her that he was far from cold-blooded . |