Example sentences of "[adj] from [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus the notion that being 70 is qualitatively different from being 70 in centuries past , assuming comparable social circumstances , is imprecise . |
| 2 | It would encourage the idea that to be old and disabled is not so different from being young and disabled ; that dementia is a mental illness , not an inevitable feature of old age . |
| 3 | Coming to terms with the fear that we all feel when in danger is different from being fearless . |
| 4 | And yet I do n't think there 's anybody in this room who could last a minute in a ring with a sumo wrestler because obviously being fit for sumo wrestling is quite different from being fit for sprint running , you need a completely different physique . |
| 5 | However , 11 stated that it was poorly written , and all but one of those 11 rewrote the passage so as to make it conform to Hankamer & Sag 's parallelism condition — some changed the antecedent from are critical of to criticize , others changed the form of the ellipses ( e.g. … anyone who is … ) or eliminated it ( e.g. … anyone who was openly critical … ) . |
| 6 | It is unfair , to say the least , in a country that increasingly believes that incentives should be the dominant motive force , that the interaction of taxation rates and benefit eligibility levels should preclude the least privileged from being able to improve their own lot . |
| 7 | The evidence , then , from reconstructions of many paleontologists , is that many dinosaurs were far from being sluggish . |
| 8 | It is plain too , that dinosaurs in their highest forms were far from being lumbering brutes ; and there is overwhelming evidence that what finally defeated them was not competition from ‘ higher ’ forms of life , but changes in climate , possibly exacerbated by catastrophic events , including the impact of giant meteors . |
| 9 | The Titfords , as we know only too well , were very far from being rich and powerful tycoons ; nevertheless , the trend we have just outlined was at work in a much more modest way even in their fortunes as time went by . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Arthur Scargill 's influence seems to have diminished , but the trade union world as a whole is far from being convinced that nuclear power is a good thing and that development should be encouraged . |
| 12 | But I was far from being depressed . |
| 13 | Moscucci claims that women were far from being passive in relation to their doctors . |
| 14 | My thighs were far from being perfect but , my goodness , they did look much better . |
| 15 | It may look invulnerable but ‘ Shine On ’ is far from being perfect . |
| 16 | But it is far from being absent . |
| 17 | He is far from being one of the outer world , but in reading his work we constantly feel the influence upon him of his reading of the worst English poets . |
| 18 | I remind the Minister that Gateshead is far from being one of Britain 's most prosperous towns . |
| 19 | Because it portrays male dominance and , on occasion , male violence in a sexual context , porn , in this view , is far from being harmless smut . |
| 20 | Informal care between family members is very far from being unproblematic ; it can and almost always does , raise in an acute form issues of power , bereavement for the loss of a loved personality , anxiety about sole responsibility , and feelings of exploitation and manipulation ( ibid . ) . |
| 21 | Yet there exist common materials , within the scope of the subject of this book , where strains are very far from being small and may reach several hundred per cent . |
| 22 | Though its airs of faded grandeur seems to place it in the Anglo-Ireland of Molly Keane — a world of dwindling resources and sinking expectations — it is far from being another monument to the old Ascendancy ( ‘ Protestants on horseback ’ , as Brendan Behan once dubbed them ) . |
| 23 | In fact he was not far from being sick . |
| 24 | I ask that this impudent remark can only be far from being dilatory , we are being diligent in safeguarding the environment of and the quality of life of the people , and we are not merely interested in financial gain . |
| 25 | Hunt 's championship was a narrow squeak , achieved in a car that was far from being all-triumphant ; it was achieved by Hunt 's merits and by Lauda 's misfortune . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | This association was far from being universal . |
| 28 | But that list is very far from being exhaustive and does not touch on the much wider range of topics possible if aquarium facilities are available . |
| 29 | But our review of the literature on environmental scanning contained in Appendix B has shown that all too frequently this is far from being true . |
| 30 | The monarchy established since 1830 was still far from being popular , but opposition to it was inchoate and lacking focus . |