Example sentences of "far [prep] being [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As for the English speaking , a child of far more than three has no difficulty learning Italian and is so far from being wedded to the tongue he has begun with that he forgets it within a few months so do not say to me that is an obstacle . |
| 2 | The Substitute was a new man , Milanese , judging by the rapidity of his speech and the way he mumbled his S's , and far from being annoyed , he seemed to be amused . |
| 3 | Modernist innovation and the revolution that was Ulysses , far from being ignored , continue to expand the range of possibilities for British writers , encouraging new forms and combinations to sophisticate and diversify conventional resources . |
| 4 | Trends towards the centralization and bureaucratization of power , far from being accepted with resignation , generated an opposition which stressed the virtues of smallness , accessibility , openness and decentralization . |
| 5 | far from being crushed as a nation by the Russian conquest , the Yakuts succeeded in adapting to the ways of their conquerors and extended their own influence over their Tungus and Yukagir neighbours , not to mention the Russians themselves . |
| 6 | Far from being perceived as the harbinger of an amoral ‘ social Darwinism ’ based on the worship of brute force , Darwin 's theory became a foundation stone of the nineteenth century 's faith in the inevitability of progress . |
| 7 | Far from being a zero-sum game , far from being fixed in the amount that is technically available , those in possession of academic freedom can go on continually expanding its scope . |
| 8 | As a result , the wider human habitat , far from being humanised and ennobled by man 's agricultural activities , becomes standardised to dreariness or even degraded to ugliness ’ . |
| 9 | Far from being persecuted , their language and culture was promoted , according to Newens . |
| 10 | Far from being tempted to explain anything then , she was of the view that she 'd see him in hell first . |
| 11 | Far from being influenced by superstitions about her groom seeing her outfit before the big day , Erika enlisted Trevor 's help in making it . |
| 12 | The Guild of British Tie Makers has carried out extensive research into tie wearing and has discovered that , far from being viewed as a current trend , the tie is considered an essential item in a man 's wardrobe . |
| 13 | The British authorities argued at the time that the way to tackle this problem of falling competitiveness , far from being to allow the pound to devalue , was to maintain a rigid exchange rate for sterling and so through the resulting high interest rates and tight money ‘ to squeeze inflation out of the system ’ . |
| 14 | Indeed , far from being seen as the fragrant components of pot-pourri or as the aromatic base for creams and lotions , herbs were the only vegetable element of the medieval and Tudor kitchen . |
| 15 | So , far from being obsessed by witchcraft and sorcery as the causes of every unkind stroke of fortune , the truth is that Zande recognize many overlapping and reinforcing causal agencies . |
| 16 | However , far from being tied to his desk , Harry has built up quite a reputation as a roving reporter . |
| 17 | Far from being treated as adults , however , students on the course were talked down to as though they were children . |
| 18 | Far from being eclipsed after his death in 1964 , his work has attracted ever more attention . |
| 19 | The rules of the game , then , far from being set by society so as to ensure fair play for all , seemed to be set by the local authorities . |
| 20 | Perhaps everyday life , far from being ordered , consistent and non-contradictory is chaotic , inconsistent , and contradictory . |
| 21 | Foreign tours , far from being powered by a love of hard currency and routine displays of the standard Russian repertoire , have brought the unfamiliar to western audiences : it was typical of Gergiev 's driving force to take the Mussorgsky experience complete to last year 's Edinburgh Festival , and a fund-raising gala at Covent Garden , a four-hour marathon squeezed between a dozen Palermo Prince Igors , included a firm statement of future policies , with a galvanizing glimpse of Tchaikovsky 's The Enchantress , scenes from Iolanta and Mazeppa , and arias from Sadko and May Night ( Rimsky looks set for the Gergiev treatment soon ) . |
| 22 | ‘ Far from being invalidated by the fact that , for instance , a perfect balance of power policy will scarcely be found in reality , it assumes that reality , being deficient in this respect , must be understood and evaluated as an approximation to an ideal system of balance of power . |
| 23 | Far from being taken back , they were delighted by our sudden arrival , and unhesitatingly encouraged us to join them in the water . |
| 24 | A second international trend present in the election and one that needs to be recognised as a global , not uniquely British , phenomenon is the decline of clear , ideologically based , alternatives to right-wing capitalism , a crisis of the social-democratic model that , far from being reversed by the disappearance of authoritarian socialism in the east , has been accentuated by it . |
| 25 | It was not until ten years later that we began to see that in fact these very English store-cupboard provisions , so far from being suited to the cheese-paring methods necessitated by desperate shortages , demand first-class basic ingredients and a liberal hand with butter . |
| 26 | We have heard in this debate that , far from being extinguished by these policies , it is flourishing . |
| 27 | ( in fact , far from being considered inappropriate , the word ‘ bin ’ is now thought highly suitable among people who work with the mentally handicapped to describe large hospitals , but the irony tends to elude the general public ) . |
| 28 | They all laughed and it helped to relieve the tension , but when they returned to the occupational health centre , far from being criticised for their performance , they heard only praise and found they were being treated as heroes . |
| 29 | Too thinly spread to have much impact on the structure of wealth , so many were subsidiary to farming that , far from being divided into industrial and agrarian regions , England consisted of various farming regions of which certain pastoral ones had attained some degree of industrial development , in some few cases to the extent of substantially modifyng their fundamental characteristics . |
| 30 | That prospect , far from being feared , should be welcomed . |