Example sentences of "[be] a long way from [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such interviews provide an index of ‘ psychological malaise ’ but they are a long way from producing the more concrete statistics provided by medical consultation , prescription levels and mortality rates . |
| 2 | We are a long way from liberating the woman from the artificial status of woman artist , which only serves to segregate her further and prevents her working as an individual professional artist , regardless of her political stance — do we call a man a male artist ? |
| 3 | The new appointments demonstrate a commitment by the Saatchi brothers to restore the company 's fortunes and suggest they are a long way from turning their backs on the business they built . |
| 4 | That the social sciences are a long way from devising scales which even approximate to the temperature scale is not to be wondered at . |
| 5 | The only other sense man has had any success in recording and reproducing on its own is sight , although moving pictures and videos are a long way from fooling the human eye in quite the way sound can fool the ear . |
| 6 | Sometimes the image they create may be a long way from expressing their real character but the search is on — through fashions , chats with friends , reactions from boyfriends — to find a style that suits their temperament and physical type . |
| 7 | We appear to be a long way from finding effective means of primary prevention of attempted suicide . |
| 8 | They may be a long way from performing in the Greatest Show on Earth , but getting there has certainly got them in a spin . |
| 9 | Far from suggesting that the two sides were moving towards a new spirit of co-operation , the diplomats said they were a long way from calling for a ceasefire . |
| 10 | But this is a long way from arguing that they were such political pariahs that the deposition of Edward V could seem preferable to a regime dominated by them . |
| 11 | But this is a long way from arguing that they were such political pariahs that the deposition of Edward V could seem preferable to a regime dominated by them . |
| 12 | She was a long way from believing him . |