Example sentences of "was [adj] from [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was damp from being buried in the leaves . |
| 2 | I was trying to communicate between David and Tony , trying to get them to talk to each other , and as a result was going back and forth between the two of them which was a very frustrating experience , added to which I was tired from being on the road and I was very unhappy . |
| 3 | As we emptied our dustbins out we noticed another bin full of cold ravioli and bread left over from lunch ; the bread was mixed in with the garbage and was soggy from being in a dustbin of cold ravioli for two hours . |
| 4 | The decisive factor , though , was that Mrs Thatcher , for all her election triumph , was far from being mistress in her own house yet . |
| 5 | She was far from being so , and I always remember her with affection for the way she enlivened my drama classes . |
| 6 | Though it was far from being a great film it altered the boundaries and opened the way for the New Wave of realism , cinema vérité . |
| 7 | This example was far from being an isolated one . |
| 8 | He also instructed those around him in these arts , and was far from being just a powerful military ruler . |
| 9 | He did acquire Savoy and Nice , but he lost control of events in the peninsula , so that the Italian Kingdom which emerged in 1861 was far from being the entity he had originally envisaged . |
| 10 | This association was far from being universal . |
| 11 | It was the first real ballet of John 's to be seen at Covent Garden , since his dances for operas had so far all been on a small scale , and it was far from being a success . |
| 12 | Perhaps she sometimes did , she replied — with sudden sideways glances — but she was far from being housebound . |
| 13 | That alone told her that she was far from being in love with Dick . |
| 14 | This can not have been untypical — the late medieval Weald was far from being the empty desert so often described . |
| 15 | At least her horrible outfit fitted her , and though it was far from being a party dress , let alone the dress of her dreams , it was reasonable , unlike Eve 's . |
| 16 | But driver safety was far from being Jackie 's only hobby horse and the first thing I noticed about Jackie — and I do n't think he 'll hold it against me to say so — was his incredible garrulity . |
| 17 | And in this respect , it should be recalled that the man I later compared to the mechanical rabbit who runs on.rails at a greyhound track was far from being the smooth , meticulous driver he later became . |
| 18 | Hunt 's championship was a narrow squeak , achieved in a car that was far from being all-triumphant ; it was achieved by Hunt 's merits and by Lauda 's misfortune . |
| 19 | It was far from being his best film . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | For although purporting to provide a degree of public participation in the making of a major policy decision , detailed examination of the institutional machinery provided by the government revealed that it was far from being a neutral forum in which the choice of options remained open until determined by the Inquiry . |
| 22 | The role of loyal officers and police in the events of 17–20 July demonstrates that while the rising may have been predominantly military in character it was far from being a rising of all the military . |
| 23 | But he was far from being merely neurotic ; rather , he was a visionary of genius comparable with that of William Blake or Fyodor Dostoievsky , one of those rare souls whose work , forged in the fires of their own pain , shatters established perceptions and calls their readers into a new and different world . |
| 24 | Yet the High Authority was far from being a sovereign body . |
| 25 | It must , however , be stressed from the outset that even among the most alienated fascism was far from being the only political response to the continued decline of Britain and the mounting economic problems after the first World War . |
| 26 | Clearly , of course , it was far from being the only political response to the war . |
| 27 | If Spencer is taken as the model it seems clear that Victorian evolutionary social theory was far from being collectivist in its orientation . |
| 28 | That this border was far from being a black-white confrontation was proved conclusively by the large anti-SWAPO vote in the subsequent internationally sponsored elections which denied SWAPO outright power over independent Namibia . |
| 29 | China was far from being in a state to overrun anyone , but the spectre had been evoked , and the West was now forced to note the existence of a non-white imperial power . |
| 30 | The annual wage formed of course one of these nourishing streams , but it was far from being the largest . |