Example sentences of "[adv] from [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the hermeneutic tradition prevents such final accounts at least from being easy and perhaps from being possible . |
| 2 | The strengths of the approach are clear : it gets away from being content-dominated and takes the teaching of skills seriously , especially skills of stilling , centredness and attentiveness . |
| 3 | But , because I felt even further away from being masculine , I was forced to amend this self-assessment and tell myself that I was not yet feminine . |
| 4 | ‘ Then I 'll let you make the decisions that affect all nomes ’ bodies , ’ said Gurder , his voice just one step away from being threatening , ‘ and you 'll let me make the decisions that affect all nomes ’ souls . |
| 5 | He is being wooed by three counter-arguments : first , that when it comes to big , company-wide computer systems , customers still prefer to buy everything from a single , proven supplier ; second , that mainframes will remain at the heart of many of tomorrow 's systems , in which a network of PCs will be served by a central processor ; and third , that IBM is moving away from being hardware-dominated to become , increasingly , a one-stop-shop for computer consultancy and services . |
| 6 | Roll padding , aside from being dishonest , is useless . |
| 7 | Aside from being difficult to fit they may interfere with the dog 's restricted breathing abilities . |
| 8 | She pulled herself up sharply from being mournful . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Far from being unnational or anti-national , ( Social Democracy ) places nations at the foundation of its world structure . ’ |
| 13 | And they claim that , far from being innocent fun , the blow-up castles are putting children at risk of serious injury . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | These perceptions , far from being simple or accidental , are intimately related to issues of authority and control and the need to concentrate power in the hands of certain groups of people . |
| 18 | Far from being neutral , the objects and descriptions become in fact suffused with meaning when attached in some way to a centre of consciousness . |
| 19 | Far from being strong , such leadership is , in this context , weak . |
| 20 | I only wish that the House had listened to the present Minister of State , the right hon. Member for Plymouth , Sutton ( Mr. Clark ) 10 years ago when , in March 1981 , in a highly prophetic speech against the views of his Tory colleagues , he said that far from being strong and a threat to the world , the Soviet Union was in the process of retreat and disintegration . |
| 21 | It would not be unfair to say that God , far from being superhuman , appears to be inhuman . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Far from being terrifying , I always felt these pleasant films were cheerful and harmless . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | In fact , the skin is the body 's largest eliminating organ weighing about 3 kilograms , and far from being delicate , it is dynamically hard-working . |
| 26 | However , current research shows that early humans did not generally rely on a meat diet , but that plant foods were at least as important : far from being mighty hunters , early humans are more likely to have been opportunist scavengers . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Far from being grateful , she complained of the smell within and declared that sleeping in the open air had its merits . |
| 29 | Campbell points out that Jesus ' sufferings , far from being heroic , are far more wonderful than that ; all our wounds and pains are taken up in his and are redeemed . |
| 30 | 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 . |