Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] far [prep] being " in BNC.
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| 1 | What made this all the more piquant was that so far from being free , the holiday was in fact bankrupting me . |
| 2 | As described by Walton , Herbert was ‘ of a stature inclined to tallness : his body was very straight , and so far from being cumbered with too much flesh , he was lean to an extremity . |
| 3 | They are a cross-section from all types of care , and very far from being a homogeneous group amenable to standard service responses . |
| 4 | Goebbels 's rhetoric that ‘ the German people has never looked up to its Führer so full of belief as in the days and hours that it became aware of the entire burden of this struggle for our life ’ , and that far from being discouraged ‘ it stood all the more firmly and unerringly behind his great aims ’ , sounded even emptier than usual . |
| 5 | Democracy , alas , though still far from being universally practised or accepted , was already out of date . |
| 6 | The population of the town doubled in the last forty years of the eighteenth century ( thirty-five thousand people in 1760 ; seventy-three thousand in 1801 ) , but it was as yet far from being the dark and horrible landscape that it eventually became . |