Example sentences of "[det] [be] [adj] from [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is far from being an indication of cultural superiority , but is due to the fact that English manufacturers extract the essential oil through their milling process . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | But our review of the literature on environmental scanning contained in Appendix B has shown that all too frequently this is far from being true . |
| 4 | But this is far from being the case here . |
| 5 | At £95 this is far from being a cheap fleece . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | But the combined sub-text of my behaviour , which I shall deal with in the next chapter , shows that this was far from being the whole truth about my psychic state . |
| 8 | Whereas today such a cheese is accessible enough and almost commonplace , in 1946 this was far from being so . |
| 9 | A new agreement was struck after much controversy in 1977 — Bermuda 2 , but this was far from being the end of the matter . |
| 10 | I have no difficulty in accepting certain supposedly key Freudian notions , such as the existence of the unconscious mind and its effect on our daily living , and the self-contradictory and self-defeating quality of much human behaviour , but these are far from being original discoveries . |
| 11 | These are far from being solely fact-finding enquiries . |
| 12 | In the United Kingdom the legislature has effectively long since surrendered the power of the purse to the executive , but that is far from being the case in the United States . |
| 13 | I suggested a second or so ago that the ordinary reader , unsure of what to make of the shifting realities of Joyce 's writing , might defensively assume that no such hesitations would trouble the experienced reader , but that is far from being a homogeneous class . |
| 14 | If so , that was far from being our intention . |