Example sentences of "be far [prep] [being] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But they 're far from being identical . |
| 2 | I ask that this impudent remark can only be far from being dilatory , we are being diligent in safeguarding the environment of and the quality of life of the people , and we are not merely interested in financial gain . |
| 3 | To Adorno , listeners to popular music are far from being private critical spirits , of course ; they are a passive mass which is prepared to accept standardized musical forms precisely because it is the product of the same processes as the musical forms themselves . |
| 4 | Words , the authors argue , are really a barrier between us and the world ; we can not escape from the structure of our language , and the structure of our language and the structure of the world are far from being identical . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | We are far from being able to specify all the things that actually take place in a learning situation , and ( as we saw earlier ) we have little knowledge of the implications of individual difference for our work . |
| 7 | The evidence , then , from reconstructions of many paleontologists , is that many dinosaurs were far from being sluggish . |
| 8 | My thighs were far from being perfect but , my goodness , they did look much better . |
| 9 | It is plain too , that dinosaurs in their highest forms were far from being lumbering brutes ; and there is overwhelming evidence that what finally defeated them was not competition from ‘ higher ’ forms of life , but changes in climate , possibly exacerbated by catastrophic events , including the impact of giant meteors . |
| 10 | Moscucci claims that women were far from being passive in relation to their doctors . |
| 11 | Because it portrays male dominance and , on occasion , male violence in a sexual context , porn , in this view , is far from being harmless smut . |
| 12 | It may look invulnerable but ‘ Shine On ’ is far from being perfect . |
| 13 | But it is far from being absent . |
| 14 | Arthur Scargill 's influence seems to have diminished , but the trade union world as a whole is far from being convinced that nuclear power is a good thing and that development should be encouraged . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | From being a comprehensive Weltanschauung , in which there were to be found , according to Gramsci , all the elements that are needed for the construction of a new ‘ integral civilization ’ , it has come to be regarded by many thinkers as a much more limited and tentative body of thought , which is far from being able to predict , in any detail or with any certainty , the future development of society , or to offer anything but the roughest of guides to political action . |
| 17 | But our review of the literature on environmental scanning contained in Appendix B has shown that all too frequently this is far from being true . |
| 18 | But I was far from being depressed . |
| 19 | Hunt 's championship was a narrow squeak , achieved in a car that was far from being all-triumphant ; it was achieved by Hunt 's merits and by Lauda 's misfortune . |
| 20 | This contributed to a temporary operating surplus between 1970 and 1974 , though it was far from being able to fund investment and interest payments . |
| 21 | Perhaps she sometimes did , she replied — with sudden sideways glances — but she was far from being housebound . |
| 22 | This association was far from being universal . |