Example sentences of "from be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , 11 stated that it was poorly written , and all but one of those 11 rewrote the passage so as to make it conform to Hankamer & Sag 's parallelism condition — some changed the antecedent from are critical of to criticize , others changed the form of the ellipses ( e.g. … anyone who is … ) or eliminated it ( e.g. … anyone who was openly critical … ) . |
| 2 | Now , however , a comparison … has made clear that what the older version mainly suffers from are considerable deficiencies in ‘ discourse structure ’ , i.e. , in the way the sentences are combined into well-integrated paragraphs , and these in turn into a well-constructed whole . |
| 3 | From being underdetermined , the Keynesian model was made fully determinate by means of what many non-Keynesians regarded as a rather devious sleight of hand . |
| 4 | From being shifty Mrs Goreng started to become nervous and then irritable . |
| 5 | Apart from being awkward , the Arabic version also distorts the information structure of the original by presenting the first element ( ‘ general picture ’ ) as given when the point of the cleft structure is to present it as the new information worth attending to . |
| 6 | I suppose it comes from being lifelong buddies — you rub off on each other , reflect each other 's personality . |
| 7 | They were er anybody that knows about moleskin , and there very heavy material er and apart from being hard-wearing , I suppose they , in the winter time , they gave them a wee bit of warmth in their legs etcetera . |
| 8 | Any impairment of consciousness from being drowsy and lethargic to total unconsciousness . |
| 9 | Apart from being inaccurate — Denmark has no visa regime — the statement betrayed the Minister 's muddled thinking on refugee issues . |
| 10 | Far from being neutral , the objects and descriptions become in fact suffused with meaning when attached in some way to a centre of consciousness . |
| 11 | Indeed far from being fearful of continued public objection , local authorities should be more concerned about their ability to be able to keep up with public demand for calming various residential areas once the ideas take off . |
| 12 | Arthur Scargill 's influence seems to have diminished , but the trade union world as a whole is far from being convinced that nuclear power is a good thing and that development should be encouraged . |
| 13 | But it is far from being absent . |
| 14 | But I was far from being depressed . |
| 15 | Far from being unflattering , they add cleavage , volume or support as in the Gossard Wonderbra . |
| 16 | From being normal , |
| 17 | But it was to be a short-lived glory ; with his death the Bretwalda -ship passed elsewhere , and Sussex reverted from being prime among Saxon kingdoms to a minor position , on the periphery of the long-drawn-out struggle for national leadership between the rulers of Northumbria , Mercia and Wessex . |
| 18 | Some months after Wilson resigned from being prime minister , he admitted to two journalists that he believed there was a faction in DI5 sympathetic to the South African and Rhodesian authorities . |
| 19 | Apart from being disinclined for work , Mrs Peterson was showing her age more than ever and was not capable of sustained effort . |
| 20 | Such enthusiasm may have had as much to do with the excited nationalism of wartime , as any substantial appreciation of these films ' merits , and it should not be supposed that British filmmakers had universally gone from being dull and unimaginative to become masters of the cinematic art . |
| 21 | ‘ That 's OK , I can deal with it ; I 'm all for a good fight , especially with you as my opponent — it keeps life from being dull . |
| 22 | Yet many of the teachers we interviewed , far from being unaware of this risk , perceived only too clearly that it was inherent to the LEA 's preferred combination of group work and multiple curriculum focus teaching . |
| 23 | Far from being unaware of the impact on Scotland of the Scottish Constitutional Convention 's proposals , I am aware that Scotland enjoys identifiable public expenditure 22 per cent . |
| 24 | But the benefit that the trees obtained from being tall did not go up . |
| 25 | As it is , they create a culture that compensates for life at work ; a myth system that draws its sustenance from being separate from the culture of management . |
| 26 | Do you think that there was a changeover from being practical , I mean can you remember seeing that transition from the very practical shade to the , to , to the light fitting becoming something decorative ? |
| 27 | There is , of course , always a danger that , in industries with some monopoly power , an element of competition , far from being beneficial , will induce uneconomic cross-subsidisation to win business , and this certainly happened in some areas . |
| 28 | thickened from being battered year on year |
| 29 | Hillier , who guided Langley from being perennial re-election candidates to a first division side in only two seasons , announced his decision to quit after yesterday 's 2–1 win Gretna . |
| 30 | Far from being unimportant , the study of administration and institutions has much to tell us about the increasing effectiveness of the state and central government in an aspect of government growing more important with every passing year . |