Example sentences of "far from " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Man with a Sheep is said to be humanitarian ; that is far from one 's experience in front of it , and the assertion is not much supported by the iconographical evidence . |
| 2 | Patrick is far from anti-homosexual , though not entirely patient with the relevant practices and pretensions . |
| 3 | But their accumulation is very far from the complicated truth . |
| 4 | The desire can be surmised , without recourse to hindsight , in some of what he wrote , but is far from being the point of what he wrote . |
| 5 | Taken in by the image of yourself they present you with , wrote Harsnet , instead of waiting in patience for the beginning , instead of waiting and then beginning , though beginning , having begun , he wrote , is not everything , is far from everything . |
| 6 | Do not think , he wrote , biting his lips in concentration , bending low over the page , blinking to keep the sweat out of his eyes , do not think that it was ever far from my mind . |
| 7 | CAMRA 's work is far from over . |
| 8 | This is far from being an indication of cultural superiority , but is due to the fact that English manufacturers extract the essential oil through their milling process . ’ |
| 9 | She was lying not far from her fiancé , eyes closed , deathly pale but apparently hardly injured . |
| 10 | Inside , in the warm living room , with a glass of chilled dry wine to drink and Mozart to listen to on the CD , she was far from the tiredness she had claimed earlier . |
| 11 | I did n't know exactly where Leicester Square was , but 1 did know it was n't far from Piccadilly , I had seen it in one of those tourist maps I had in my hand a short while ago , did n't know where it went , probably left it in the cinema showing the explicit sex film which was n't . |
| 12 | But Stravinsky 's music , although classical in form , was far from the tuneful dance idioms of Tchaikovsky , Stravinsky 's source of inspiration . |
| 13 | for example : in Napoli they were Italian , in Far from Denmark they were Danes influenced by the dance of South America . |
| 14 | BUT the drinker 's struggle is far from over … |
| 15 | Scholes 's case is the more telling in that he is far from being a conservative opponent of all recent developments in theory ; he has written favourably of structuralism , and unsympathetically about fictional realism ( for which , indeed , he has been attacked by Tallis ) , and elsewhere in Textual Power he finds deconstructive reading — as opposed to the theory underlying it — a useful critical method . |
| 16 | I have no difficulty in accepting certain supposedly key Freudian notions , such as the existence of the unconscious mind and its effect on our daily living , and the self-contradictory and self-defeating quality of much human behaviour , but these are far from being original discoveries . |
| 17 | Here Hartman is also covertly speaking of himself , for his puns and wordplay and his jokey chapter headings are seldom far from the trivial . |
| 18 | Among Pound 's associates in that vanished world , the most instructive figures , I 'm inclined to think , are Frederic Manning and Allen Upward ; but unfortunately we 're still very far from recovering from oblivion the lineaments of either of these men . |
| 19 | He is far from being one of the outer world , but in reading his work we constantly feel the influence upon him of his reading of the worst English poets . |
| 20 | The principle indicated in those cases was a long way from the circumstances of the present case and was far from warranting the conclusion that by making a photocopy of a document which in the hands of the maker of the photocopy was not privileged , and then sending the photocopy to a solicitor for the purposes of obtaining advice , privilege was thereby cast on the copy sent to the soicitor . |
| 21 | Yet it would not be quite right to call Under Briggflatts ‘ controversial ’ , for that deadened word implies a self-serving wish to shock which is far from Davie 's considered anger . |
| 22 | ‘ They seemed convinced a whole lot of people had come up from the big city to show off , to be grandees , which was far from the truth . |
| 23 | But even here there were signs that we were not far from the sea or from strange phenomena . |
| 24 | On Friday he played the match of his life to beat the defending champion , Jahangir Khan , in five games , and at 6-0 up in the final game on Saturday he was not far from becoming the first player to beat both Khans in the same tournament . |
| 25 | However , it is clear the two sides are far from agreement on the extra £382m TML claims the tunnel terminals and fixed equipment will cost , which Mr Morton described as ‘ manifestly absurd ’ . |
| 26 | The All Blacks are searching for perfection on the pitch and the physical strength and skill of their forwards leaves you with the sense that they are not far from attaining that dream . |
| 27 | Announcing the recommendations , Lord Justice Beldam , its chairman , said hacking was ‘ far from being a youthful prank ’ and caused serious consequences . |
| 28 | Now , though the office air is clean , the butt-crammed ashtray outside testifies that smoking is far from stubbed out . |
| 29 | However , for all the heat generated by the scandal , it appeared from this week 's developments that the opposition is still far from identifying the ‘ smoking bank account ’ that would ruin Mr Gandhi 's career . |
| 30 | Political expediency seemed far from his mind . |