Example sentences of "far [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm not far off am I ? |
| 2 | The food 's not far off is it ? |
| 3 | RECONSTRUCTING a lifeboat rescue is not far off being as difficult as the rescue itself . |
| 4 | In at least one pub ( and if there is one , there will be more ) 4p has been added to the cost of what can not be far off being a 0.57 litre please landlord . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Announcing the recommendations , Lord Justice Beldam , its chairman , said hacking was ‘ far from being a youthful prank ’ and caused serious consequences . |
| 11 | The ideal was very far from being a reality in 1922 , or indeed throughout NEP . |
| 12 | The decisive factor , though , was that Mrs Thatcher , for all her election triumph , was far from being mistress in her own house yet . |
| 13 | But the Corrado 's victory is far from being so clear cut in other areas . |
| 14 | Curing time nevertheless remains one of the barriers to composites ' mass production , even though , as Lotus 's Albert Adams is quick to point out , what comes out of a steel press is far from being a complete car body . |
| 15 | In fact he was not far from being sick . |
| 16 | True , Tolkien 's favourite books were the old books — in English , the Anglo-Saxon poets ; in Icelandic , those of the Elder Edda ; in Celtic , the old Welsh Triads and the Irish was by far the most distinguished scholar in his field of Old and Middle English , his interest in it all was very far from being ‘ purely academic ’ . |
| 17 | The tour may have lost an offshore event but financially it is far from being at sea . |
| 18 | Just one glance had told Muldoon that they were very far from being as generous as he had encouraged Mark to believe . |
| 19 | She was far from being so , and I always remember her with affection for the way she enlivened my drama classes . |
| 20 | The David of 2 Samuel is far from being an exemplary character , yet here in the gloom of the surrounding narrative we have a bright flash of faith , wisdom and humility . |
| 21 | Though it was far from being a great film it altered the boundaries and opened the way for the New Wave of realism , cinema vérité . |
| 22 | West Country Living : Where waves wash away city tension Lynne Edmunds finds that the trek to a more leisurely crowd-free lifestyle is far from being an over-60s monopoly |
| 23 | As Tom Watson has said , however , the Masters is far from being an ‘ us against them ’ tournament . |
| 24 | Perhaps the most important thing that QED will have done is to open other sufferers ' eyes to the realisation that they are very far from being alone . |
| 25 | This example was far from being an isolated one . |
| 26 | He also instructed those around him in these arts , and was far from being just a powerful military ruler . |
| 27 | The acid rain problem may have disappeared from the headlines but it is far from being solved . |
| 28 | I think it may give the Reader a worse Idea of her Person than it deserv 'd , which was very far from being shocking ; tho' there was nothing extraordinary in it . |
| 29 | First , different ideals of the good far from being excluded will form the starting points of the argument about a doctrine of justice . |
| 30 | I have no doubt whatever … provided the production is good , I mean provided there are good people to perform it — and that is the case in Munich … but when your music is performed by a mediocre orchestra , it will always be the loser , because it is composed with so much discernment for the various instruments and is far from being commonplace , as , on the whole , Italian music is . |