Example sentences of "is [adj] from [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Coming to terms with the fear that we all feel when in danger is different from being fearless . |
| 2 | In addition to their genetic differences they will each have a different nurturing experience within their family , for example being the first born and only child is different from being the second or third child of parents already used to dealing with small babies and the noise , bustle and demands of older siblings . |
| 3 | The desire can be surmised , without recourse to hindsight , in some of what he wrote , but is far from being the point of what he wrote . |
| 4 | 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 . ’ |
| 5 | Scholes 's case is the more telling in that he is far from being a conservative opponent of all recent developments in theory ; he has written favourably of structuralism , and unsympathetically about fictional realism ( for which , indeed , he has been attacked by Tallis ) , and elsewhere in Textual Power he finds deconstructive reading — as opposed to the theory underlying it — a useful critical method . |
| 6 | He is far from being one of the outer world , but in reading his work we constantly feel the influence upon him of his reading of the worst English poets . |
| 7 | But the Corrado 's victory is far from being so clear cut in other areas . |
| 8 | Curing time nevertheless remains one of the barriers to composites ' mass production , even though , as Lotus 's Albert Adams is quick to point out , what comes out of a steel press is far from being a complete car body . |
| 9 | The tour may have lost an offshore event but financially it is far from being at sea . |
| 10 | The David of 2 Samuel is far from being an exemplary character , yet here in the gloom of the surrounding narrative we have a bright flash of faith , wisdom and humility . |
| 11 | West Country Living : Where waves wash away city tension Lynne Edmunds finds that the trek to a more leisurely crowd-free lifestyle is far from being an over-60s monopoly |
| 12 | As Tom Watson has said , however , the Masters is far from being an ‘ us against them ’ tournament . |
| 13 | The acid rain problem may have disappeared from the headlines but it is far from being solved . |
| 14 | I have no doubt whatever … provided the production is good , I mean provided there are good people to perform it — and that is the case in Munich … but when your music is performed by a mediocre orchestra , it will always be the loser , because it is composed with so much discernment for the various instruments and is far from being commonplace , as , on the whole , Italian music is . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | My submission is that the identification and analysis of the two key features mentioned above indicate that it is a right which is far from being the general bulwark it purports to be . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | This ideal , as everyone knows , is far from being satisfied . |
| 19 | Docklands is far from being a Garden City , or a New Town for most people . |
| 20 | But this is far from being the case here . |
| 21 | Because it portrays male dominance and , on occasion , male violence in a sexual context , porn , in this view , is far from being harmless smut . |
| 22 | Clough will consider it a much needed morale booster if he can get Keane 's signature on the new deal , even though the battle to keep him at the City Ground is far from being won . |
| 23 | Whilst for some the experience of ageing does bring with it a degree of social disengagement , it is far from being a ‘ natural ’ or inevitable event . |
| 24 | At £95 this is far from being a cheap fleece . |
| 25 | A normal child of 3 is far from being a completely effective language user , and yet it would be inappropriate to target that child for therapy . |
| 26 | It may look invulnerable but ‘ Shine On ’ is far from being perfect . |
| 27 | Copious information is far from being an unmixed blessing to the recent historian . |
| 28 | I have argued that the individualist case is far from being closed ; but why do its exponents not see this for themselves ? |
| 29 | There is the rumbling , heard during the election campaign , that his organisation ‘ United We Stand America ’ is far from being the grass-roots citizens ' army that he says it is , more a body tightly controlled by Mr Perot and a handful of lieutenants in Dallas . |
| 30 | Yet it is far from being exceptionally powerful . |