Example sentences of "[verb] it [is] [adj] from " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 Turning reality on its head is now the objective of a national coach who is made to understand it is far from an ideal world every time he picks a Scotland squad .
3 Hinduism may be non-dogmatic and non-exclusive but that does not mean it is free from imperfections and weaknesses .
4 I think it 's straight from Hollywood really ; but instead of falling into the arms of Barbara Stanwyck , it would be Tyrone Power .
5 What this approach makes especially clear is that while we might want to say that the meaning of ( 17 ) remains constant across different occasions of utterance , the proposition that it expresses if Joe Bloggs utters it is different from the one it picks out if Sue Bloggs utters it .
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