Example sentences of "from [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Hair sometimes changes from being dry to becoming greasy at this age but as likely as not will revert later to its usual condition . |
| 32 | Far from being dry and insignificant facts , the questions of attributing particular pots to particular people and places are treated with real and infectious enthusiasm . |
| 33 | Apart from being dry . |
| 34 | Their women , far from being grateful , turned on them , snarling , in late night conversations telling them to shut up ; far from setting them free to work for the Revolution , their women demanded that they take emotional responsibility and also clean the loos . |
| 35 | Far from being grateful , she complained of the smell within and declared that sleeping in the open air had its merits . |
| 36 | In order to prevent LIFESPAN from being specific to an organisation , the term Design Change ( DC ) was chosen . |
| 37 | From being terse and reticent , Celia became all at once more communicative . |
| 38 | Co-operative schemes can range from being small and informal , to being relatively large , and highly formally organized . |
| 39 | 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 . |
| 40 | With the uncertainty about oil prices and the expense of both gas and electricity , many people are opting for wood-burning stoves These have long been a favourite in Northern Europe and America , and they can be amazingly efficient in heating most of the house , quite apart from being decorative . |
| 41 | These form today 's big stick : their owners hope that , by possessing the ability to kill tens of millions of people and destroy the fabric of modern industrial society , they will prevent an enemy from being stupid enough to risk all by waging all-out war . |
| 42 | 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 . ) . |
| 43 | A tenancy from year to year is saved from being uncertain because each party has power by notice to determine at the end of any year . |
| 44 | However , what the questions and responses do illustrate is that the notion of a discipline or subject , which is the basic building-block of the undergraduate curriculum , far from being straightforward and clearly defined , is in fact extremely complex . |
| 45 | But it is pointless and unhistorical to condemn the absence of " democracy " in the recruitment of diplomats when Europe in general was still so far from being democratic . |
| 46 | The West should take time off from being Gorbacharmed to think about recent events in Russia 's outer empire and the awkward question they raise : how to undo Europe 's post-1945 division without undoing its post-1945 stability . |
| 47 | Far from being Treasury-led , it is defence-strategy-led , and the Treasury has now agreed to fund the programme , so the comment was uninformed . |
| 48 | Since mathematics deals with purely imaginary entities , there is theoretically nothing preventing AB from being equal to CD except the need for someone to conceive them as equal , so that the actualization of let carries with it the automatic actualization of be equal . |
| 49 | How then could the British government act to save the nodule-mining industry from being stillborn ? |
| 50 | 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 . |
| 51 | I hope that red tape will not prevent the use of the enormous reservoir of skill and good will that is held in our reserve forces from being available for use at such times purely and simply because Departments might haggle over who will be billed for the cost . |
| 52 | The Government has invested £1.1m to make CD-Rom technology available in schools and apart from being available in many North-East schools our CD-Rom is widely used in schools as far afield as St Albans and London . |
| 53 | My father being a railwayman and er asking and doing various jobs from being ordinary shunter and man-about , eventually graduated by way of He 's he was a Lancashire man , you see ? |
| 54 | So if we are to think of all of this in terms of Christian joy then we must realize that joy does not come from being immune to everything else that 's going on . |
| 55 | The ambassador reported that " The Emperor is monitoring the serious political illness which has gripped all countries , and believes his empire very far from being immune from infection " ; Nicholas was now of the opinion that " Highly reprehensible principles have been disseminated among young people who completed their university courses around three years ago , among people who have lived abroad for a long time , and also among teachers , professors , writers and journalists . |
| 56 | Far from being terrifying , I always felt these pleasant films were cheerful and harmless . |
| 57 | Far from being typical in the Lukacsian sense of synthesizing the decisive problems of a particular epoch , they degenerate to the level of the " topical " , a fictional means of supplying appropriate , ideologically correct solutions to current political problems . |
| 58 | Although , when the three friends reunite in 1959 after thirteen years , they have not achieved everything they hoped for as adolescents , we are left at the end of the play with a feeling of hope — not the kind of false hope prescribed by Soviet censors but the hope that comes from being young and strong and having lived through difficult times . |
| 59 | It would encourage the idea that to be old and disabled is not so different from being young and disabled ; that dementia is a mental illness , not an inevitable feature of old age . |
| 60 | At the same time , I 'm a long way from being young enough to imagine , as you do , that marriage is the answer to all life 's little problems . |