Example sentences of "[adj] from [be] a " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | ‘ I think being a press photographer is not a lot different from being a team sports person . |
| 2 | Oh Major I bet he wanted to be right from being a kid , wanted to be prime minister . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Announcing the recommendations , Lord Justice Beldam , its chairman , said hacking was ‘ far from being a youthful prank ’ and caused serious consequences . |
| 5 | The ideal was very far from being a reality in 1922 , or indeed throughout NEP . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It was the first real ballet of John 's to be seen at Covent Garden , since his dances for operas had so far all been on a small scale , and it was far from being a success . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Docklands is far from being a Garden City , or a New Town for most people . |
| 13 | Needless to say , the use of offshore centres is never far from being a controversial matter . |
| 14 | At least her horrible outfit fitted her , and though it was far from being a party dress , let alone the dress of her dreams , it was reasonable , unlike Eve 's . |
| 15 | Whilst for some the experience of ageing does bring with it a degree of social disengagement , it is far from being a ‘ natural ’ or inevitable event . |
| 16 | At £95 this is far from being a cheap fleece . |
| 17 | A normal child of 3 is far from being a completely effective language user , and yet it would be inappropriate to target that child for therapy . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The role of loyal officers and police in the events of 17–20 July demonstrates that while the rising may have been predominantly military in character it was far from being a rising of all the military . |
| 20 | They were far from being a pretty sight but he forced himself to carry out as thorough an investigation as he could . |
| 21 | Yet the High Authority was far from being a sovereign body . |
| 22 | Yet he is far from being a copy book hero . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Yet he was far from being a conventional man of business . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Greece was far from being a model democracy and there was no evidence of large-scale Soviet support for the Greek Communists . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | A typical value is λ = 60 nm ( nm = nanometre ) , so the material is not very far from being a perfect diamagnet . |
| 29 | ‘ Although I 'm very far from being a rich man as yet , ’ Harry said with a smile , ‘ by Mum 's and Dad 's standards I am . |
| 30 | 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 . |