Example sentences of "[was/were] far [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would have all been perfectly possible in ideal circumstances — but circumstances were far from ideal . |
| 2 | He will not however go down in financial history as a great achiever , and it has to be said ( as recorded later in these pages ) that even under his leadership labour relations were far from perfect . |
| 3 | By the time films reached Pasiano they were far from pristine : they might be unintentionally silent and sometimes stopped altogether . |
| 4 | Year after year we came home convinced that ‘ all-German ’ emotions , though officially discouraged on one side and dormant on the other , were far from dead , and that the post-war arrangements in central Europe were therefore a lot less permanent than they might seem . |
| 5 | The charges and the violence were far from one-sided . |
| 6 | Anglo-American relations in the Middle East were far from satisfactory in the early 1950s . |
| 7 | The circumstances were far from clear : they involved Ikhwan , land formerly held as religious endowment ( waqf ) , Tibbu , Ajdabiyan kinsmen of the Ikhwan , the army , and a united Zuwaya front . |
| 8 | The institutes said they were far from certain whether the latest indicators signalled a stabilisation of the economic downturn . |
| 9 | She 'd learned that many Glasgow pubs were far from desirable . |
| 10 | Reports in the previous year that a local man had been killed by the Dutch workforce make it clear that the battles over the digging of the ditches were far from one-sided . |
| 11 | Prior to Julius Caesar , however , Roman achievements in chronometry were far from impressive . |
| 12 | But Indonesia , in common with Vesuvius and almost all volcanic areas in the world , is located in the middle of an intensely active seismic zone , so earthquakes in the area were far from uncommon , and the local people did not attach much special significance to this latest bout of tremors . |
| 13 | Fortunately their late arrival did not seem to have aroused the usual hostile chorus of hushing , the majority of the audience consisting of French soldiers who were far from particular about such matters . |
| 14 | The position was illogical , both because classical law had allowed many wordings which were far from precatory , and because the simplest way of distinguishing civil-law institutions was to see whether they used the proper wording . |
| 15 | The determined Cranleigh side were far from downhearted and they almost got a quick equaliser when Chris Lamboll , having beaten 'keeper Paul Cann , saw his shot booted off the line by Steve Buckingham . |
| 16 | By the time of Napoleon 's war against Prussia and his defeat of Frederick William III 's armies at Jena and Auerstadt in 1806 , the people of Danzig were far from disloyal to the Prussian cause , far from willing to throw off Prussian rule , lest they be handed over to some form of Polish domination . |
| 17 | But while the legislators were vying with each other to amend insolvency laws which all were agreed were far from fair or just , in 1842 they were able to agree on the need to do away with the notorious symbol of that unfairness and injustice , the Fleet Prison . |
| 18 | They were far from impressive in their semi-final against Castres , while their performance in the final , though short of polish and inventiveness , was full of dynamism and — above all — will to win . |
| 19 | Although they represented a new wealth and social authority , they were far from extravagant , representing instead a restrained order , often at odds with some of their more flamboyant inhabitants . |
| 20 | The furnaces were far from economical in their use of charcoal and it soon became necessary to replace the heavy drain on established woodlands with the careful use of coppiced underwood . |
| 21 | They placed it at 7,000 in early 1977 and were far from happy at the knowledge . |
| 22 | The north London club 's preparations were far from ideal , entering the game just 48 hours after they had been fined £50,000 for a breach of League regulations and chairman Stan Flashman had been involved in a scuffle with photographers at the London hearing . |
| 23 | A couple of years ago these lanes were far from peaceful when a flash flood swept through the area . |
| 24 | The airfield was then inspected on foot by the six officers following which all were in agreement that conditions were far from satisfactory and McGuinness advised they should be prepared for accidents and possible aircraft losses . |
| 25 | Not surprisingly , when the Report was published , the Federation 's leaders were far from satisfied : ‘ For all practical purposes , the Beveridge Report is useless … and we had better ignore it entirely , concentrating on action which will secure our just rights — AND NOW — not at some vague future time . ’ |
| 26 | The Scots ' commissioners in London were far from pleased with this new English church , and one of them referred to it as ‘ but a lame , Erastian presbytery ’ . |
| 27 | For the next eleven years , the country was under the effective control of the army , and as its commander-in-chief , Oliver Cromwell , and most of his fellow officers were far from convinced of the need for any state church , and firmly opposed to any compulsory religious system , Presbyterianism was consigned to a limited and localized presence . |
| 28 | Unaware that the papacy had lost much of its earlier counter-Reformation vigour and that relations between Rome and Paris were far from harmonious , many English Protestants remained convinced that their church was increasingly at risk from the growing ambition of Louis XIV , and made strenuous efforts to divert Charles and James from their pro-Catholic paths . |
| 29 | The study was criticised on a number of grounds , principally that it was based on a small sample of children ( 950 ) in an area of England ( Cheshire ) in which informal methods were far from common . |
| 30 | The Boards were far from innocent , however , and when they later developed a proper accounting system to allocate overheads fairly it was found that there had indeed been some unfair cross-subsidisation to their contracting accounts . |