Example sentences of "far from [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to the narrator , Patrick is ‘ so far from being anti-semitic that a couple of his best friends really were Jews ’ ( but who can these two best friends be — can Ormerod , unmentioned in the later novel , be one ? ) . |
| 2 | Far from being a conclusion of the ‘ consumer-led ’ revolution beloved of propagandists , the change is the child of a retail revolution which , for the consumer , constitutes only a re-arrangement of his or her individual powerlessness . ’ |
| 3 | The ignoramuses who deplored pop music in the fifties failed to understand how these new forms , far from being ‘ a return to the jungle , ’ were actually heightening genuine musical development by incorporating their rhythmic vitality and percussive effects into them , as Stravinsky had done . |
| 4 | Far from being of a piece with classical theories , computational theories share with early modern ones the nominalism that made them oblivious of what was important in the classical tradition : namely the irreducibility of thought and universals . |
| 5 | Far from being device neutral , the image file is usually coded in a way which reflects the device which first produced it . |
| 6 | Far from being inclined towards self-righteousness , the Pharisees taught ‘ Be humble before all men ’ , and revered their teacher Hillel for his extreme humility ; and far from being judgemental , they urged ‘ Do not judge your fellow man until you are in his position ’ and ‘ Always judge others by the scale of merit ( that is , charitably ) ’ . |
| 7 | Far from being inclined towards self-righteousness , the Pharisees taught ‘ Be humble before all men ’ , and revered their teacher Hillel for his extreme humility ; and far from being judgemental , they urged ‘ Do not judge your fellow man until you are in his position ’ and ‘ Always judge others by the scale of merit ( that is , charitably ) ’ . |
| 8 | Far from being a harmless slice of programme music , Popes is a remarkably positive statement . |
| 9 | Even more amazing , he is alleged to have told confidants before he died last month that , far from being the spoils of two decades of looting the Treasury , he had found the 400 tons of bullion just after the war in a northern province of the Philippines . |
| 10 | Far from being used by the producers , it is her insistence that there is no absolute link between salmonella in birds and its presence in eggs that has attracted supporters to her cause . |
| 11 | While far from being a ‘ wet ’ herself , Mrs Thatcher was presiding over a distinctly watered-down form of Tory economic policy by the summer of 1983 . |
| 12 | Far from being a challenger for power , it could not even hold on to its old citadels . |
| 13 | But it was a titter far from being mirthless . |
| 14 | In a bizarre and disavowed way this antiquated pseudo-scientific theory of male and female sexuality might usefully recall something remarked more recently by Gayle Rubin , namely that modern sexual difference theory , far from being an expression of natural differences , actually involves the suppression of natural similarities ( ‘ Traffic in Women ’ , 179 — 80 ) . |
| 15 | And this , far from being a containment ( transgression presupposing and thereby ratifying the norm it contravenes ) , is one condition of the norm 's undoing . |
| 16 | Far from being an endorsement of discrimination , an excess of difference would disarticulate its very terms . |
| 17 | Far from being a blot on her tenth anniversary as Conservative leader , the withholding of the doctorate perfectly crystallised the cultural change that she has wrought … |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | They tried to show that the very notion of private property , far from being an ‘ inalienable right ’ as it was stated to be in the American constitution , was , in fact , itself a product of certain unique economic , technical , and social conditions , and it was therefore reasonable to expect that this notion , like others , would be superseded when the associated relations of production changed . |
| 20 | Far from being just another Rolls-Royce clone with winged ‘ B ’ badges , the Mulsanne went straight back to the first act where raw performance and driving reward shared equal billing with cossetting comfort and refinement . |
| 21 | Today , it still looks interesting but far from being a perfectly balanced shape . |
| 22 | Far from being popular , Hatton had evidently had a host of enemies . |
| 23 | Far from being influenced by superstitions about her groom seeing her outfit before the big day , Erika enlisted Trevor 's help in making it . |
| 24 | Peter Dray , testing and commissioning engineer : ‘ Manifested all problems produced by BR reorganisation ; less than happy ’ with his job , as shown by performance in days up to and including November 27 ; despite having facilities , time and assistance for an independent wire count of Hemingway 's work , did not do this — far from being ‘ the last defence ’ , was no defence at all . |
| 25 | New pop , far from being a bright new beginning , turned out to be merely the inauguration of global designer-soul , the soundtrack to the new yuppie culture of health and efficiency . |
| 26 | Far from being the enemy of the environment , the expanded road programme will improve the quality of life for thousands of people . ’ |
| 27 | Yet all these faults suggest that the reform , far from being too bold , has not been bold enough . |
| 28 | Far from being a natural cabinet chairman , he intervened and interfered repeatedly — mostly to speed up decision-making . |
| 29 | Far from being his only subject , eroticism — along with politics , aesthetics and theology — is a seamless part of life for Kundera . |
| 30 | 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 . |