Example sentences of "be [adj] from [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But they 're far from being identical . |
| 2 | Now , a new settlement option is a last ditch option , we 're far from being the last ditch here , we 're hardly the first ditch . |
| 3 | Oh Major I bet he wanted to be right from being a kid , wanted to be prime minister . |
| 4 | I ask that this impudent remark can only be far from being dilatory , we are being diligent in safeguarding the environment of and the quality of life of the people , and we are not merely interested in financial gain . |
| 5 | Let me say straight away that I am far from being a male chauvinist ( many of my girlfriends over the years have been females ) , indeed the very first person to introduce me to canoeing was Marianne Tucker who subsequently represented England in the 1960 Olympics . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Awe-inspiring in size and design , often with highly decorated interiors and fine chapels , they are far from being the forbidding and depressing places one might expect . |
| 8 | If we press this and insist on doubting what the humanist holds as indubitable , we uncover a hornet 's nest of assumptions and presuppositions which are far from being rationally indubitable . |
| 9 | But we are far from being at the end of the chain of slimming benefits that are achieved by a diet rich in natural fibre . |
| 10 | They are far from being the same or even similar , and you can check this by comparing the analysis on the packets . |
| 11 | We are far from being able to specify all the things that actually take place in a learning situation , and ( as we saw earlier ) we have little knowledge of the implications of individual difference for our work . |
| 12 | of course librarians are far from being a heterogeneous group , and there need be no doubt that all types of personality and approach are represented within the profession . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | These are far from being solely fact-finding enquiries . |
| 15 | However , despite section 89 , the statutory pre-emptive rights are far from being entrenched ; in certain circumstances they can be modified or waived . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | This further implies that nationalism and appeals to common blood and homeland are far from being ‘ old fashioned ’ . |
| 18 | However , manager Brown was full of optimism as he claimed afterwards : ‘ We are far from being dead yet . |
| 19 | What is certain is that the results of the Italian war of 1859 , though wildly popular in France , were far from being what the Emperor desired . |
| 20 | Moscucci claims that women were far from being passive in relation to their doctors . |
| 21 | In the event , wiser counsels prevailed ; the proposals that had emerged by the summer of 1989 from the subject working parties and the National Curriculum Council were far from being the national syllabuses that had at first seemed likely . |
| 22 | George moved to Sheffield to play for The Wednesday in the summer of 1925 but his 48 goals for us in the higher divisions , scored generally when we were far from being a great side , were easily our best tally in the period 1921–5 and have only ever been bettered by Mark Bright and Ian Wright . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The German urban commercial and industrial middle classes , unlike the rural peasantry , were far from being the cowed , feudal illiterates that the Junkers would have liked them to be . |
| 25 | My thighs were far from being perfect but , my goodness , they did look much better . |
| 26 | The evidence , then , from reconstructions of many paleontologists , is that many dinosaurs were far from being sluggish . |
| 27 | They were far from being a pretty sight but he forced himself to carry out as thorough an investigation as he could . |
| 28 | Conversely , the husbandmen who bulked so large in the assessments of the 1520s , and formed the majority in later subsidies when the experiment of taxing wage earners was abandoned , were far from being exclusively freeholders and copyholders on advantageous terms . |
| 29 | Unknown to the client , DPR 's facilities were far from being computerised . |
| 30 | Coming to terms with the fear that we all feel when in danger is different from being fearless . |