Example sentences of "very [adj] from [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The experience of watching someone lecture to a live audience is very different from being there yourself . |
| 2 | The ideal was very far from being a reality in 1922 , or indeed throughout NEP . |
| 3 | True , Tolkien 's favourite books were the old books — in English , the Anglo-Saxon poets ; in Icelandic , those of the Elder Edda ; in Celtic , the old Welsh Triads and the Irish was by far the most distinguished scholar in his field of Old and Middle English , his interest in it all was very far from being ‘ purely academic ’ . |
| 4 | Just one glance had told Muldoon that they were very far from being as generous as he had encouraged Mark to believe . |
| 5 | Perhaps the most important thing that QED will have done is to open other sufferers ' eyes to the realisation that they are very far from being alone . |
| 6 | I think it may give the Reader a worse Idea of her Person than it deserv 'd , which was very far from being shocking ; tho' there was nothing extraordinary in it . |
| 7 | This is a great asset in favour of high-fibre dieting , but is very far from being the only advantage you gain when you follow the F-Plan slimming method . |
| 8 | The Titfords , as we know only too well , were very far from being rich and powerful tycoons ; nevertheless , the trend we have just outlined was at work in a much more modest way even in their fortunes as time went by . |
| 9 | Informal care between family members is very far from being unproblematic ; it can and almost always does , raise in an acute form issues of power , bereavement for the loss of a loved personality , anxiety about sole responsibility , and feelings of exploitation and manipulation ( ibid . ) . |
| 10 | Behaviour is very far from being disorderly . |
| 11 | Social life is very far from being governed by shrewd logic and sweet reason . |
| 12 | There is a very big market for graphical user interfaces but it is very far from being the whole market , and it seems highly likely that what the majority of today 's dogged MS-DOS users want is simply a few further refinements to the operating system they are familiar with . |
| 13 | A typical value is λ = 60 nm ( nm = nanometre ) , so the material is not very far from being a perfect diamagnet . |
| 14 | ‘ Although I 'm very far from being a rich man as yet , ’ Harry said with a smile , ‘ by Mum 's and Dad 's standards I am . |
| 15 | So far these are very far from being boom times . |
| 16 | But that list is very far from being exhaustive and does not touch on the much wider range of topics possible if aquarium facilities are available . |
| 17 | Even before Karl von Frisch 's well-known studies on bee orientation and his interpretation of the waggle dance in the 1910s and 1920s , students of bee behaviour , from fable-writers and apiary-keepers to entomologists , had marvelled at the skills , apparent intelligence and capacity to learn of the bees , which seemed very far from being rigidly programmed robots . |
| 18 | Yet there exist common materials , within the scope of the subject of this book , where strains are very far from being small and may reach several hundred per cent . |
| 19 | In the anisotropic case , however , the non-uniformity of stress is channelled in the outer portions of the plate and , for this case , of aspect ration 5:1 the central portion is very far from being under uniform stress . |
| 20 | Only the solidity of the flesh she touched was very far from being imaginary . |
| 21 | It was very far from being a human face . |
| 22 | The First World War thus engulfed a Europe in which diplomatic services were still very far from being meritocracies . |
| 23 | Sieving is an essential ingredient in the generation of living order , but it is very far from being the whole story . |
| 24 | Somehow at that moment he was very far from being just part of the furniture . |