Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] from [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 's mother-of-three Pamela Stephenson , the woman who has made the interesting switch from being outrageous to outraged ; graduating from wicked impersonations of Margaret Thatcher to delivering petitions to the leaderene 's own doorstep . |
| 2 | How then could the British government act to save the nodule-mining industry from being stillborn ? |
| 3 | Middle-class Edinburgh lads like myself are discouraged from an early age from being physical unless they 're wearing rugby shorts at the time . |
| 4 | At the same time , I 'm a long way from being young enough to imagine , as you do , that marriage is the answer to all life 's little problems . |
| 5 | While such machines are still a long way from being able to beat the American champion ( there are about 700 Masters in the US ) , it is clear that the period from 1977 to the present has seen a degree and pace of progress in machine chess that is very different in kind from what went on between 1957 and 1976 . |
| 6 | The door , a long way from being square , was at the left of the shop window and on entering you had the impression of walking downhill . |
| 7 | Yet suspecting that a disease is linked to diet is a far cry from being able to identify the item of diet that has toxic or pathogenic properties . |
| 8 | … assertiveness skills help to focus the emphasis of the request on the specific problem , and prevent the asserted comment from being aggressive or intensely personal . |
| 9 | Thus the ‘ immigrants ’ and the ‘ refugees ’ together transformed the British urban environment from being monolingual and monocultural to being multilingual and multicultural . |