Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] being [adj] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | All these reforms may be necessary , but alas , so far from being sufficient that a reassessment of future conservation needs to be made . |
| 2 | According to the narrator , Patrick is ‘ so far from being anti-semitic that a couple of his best friends really were Jews ’ ( but who can these two best friends be — can Ormerod , unmentioned in the later novel , be one ? ) . |
| 3 | I was the closest to being happy that I can remember ; my escape was in sight . |
| 4 | The content of the new journalism was appalling but at least it indicated that the masses could read and apart from being useful that offered the prospect that readers might move on to better things . |
| 5 | ‘ I had n't forgotten , and I 've come round to being sorry that you do , but as it 's unlikely that the hatred is going to change , and since we both know that this is ultimately inevitable , it might as well happen now . ’ |