Example sentences of "[noun] be far [prep] [being] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My thighs were far from being perfect but , my goodness , they did look much better . |
| 2 | The evidence , then , from reconstructions of many paleontologists , is that many dinosaurs were far from being sluggish . |
| 3 | This association was far from being universal . |
| 4 | Arthur Scargill 's influence seems to have diminished , but the trade union world as a whole is far from being convinced that nuclear power is a good thing and that development should be encouraged . |
| 5 | To Adorno , listeners to popular music are far from being private critical spirits , of course ; they are a passive mass which is prepared to accept standardized musical forms precisely because it is the product of the same processes as the musical forms themselves . |
| 6 | It is plain too , that dinosaurs in their highest forms were far from being lumbering brutes ; and there is overwhelming evidence that what finally defeated them was not competition from ‘ higher ’ forms of life , but changes in climate , possibly exacerbated by catastrophic events , including the impact of giant meteors . |
| 7 | Words , the authors argue , are really a barrier between us and the world ; we can not escape from the structure of our language , and the structure of our language and the structure of the world are far from being identical . |
| 8 | Moscucci claims that women were far from being passive in relation to their doctors . |