Example sentences of "[noun sg] have [been] [adv] from [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only a few days before an ITV programme had been far from complimentary about some of the Salvation Army hostels . |
| 2 | The operation had been far from easy , the cable being ‘ … manhandled out of the hold of a steamer , over a pulley and round a drum which measured the speed , and then several times round a brake drum before passing into the sea ’ .5 |
| 3 | Absenteeism and lack of reverence in church had been far from unknown before the Reformation ; indeed such charges were the most frequent cause of appearances before the Suffolk ecclesiastical courts in the fifteenth century . |
| 4 | But the year since Robert Maxwell 's death has been far from comfortable . |
| 5 | The visit had been far from successful , for Adam had sulked when offered the four-ten , the so-called ‘ lady 's gun ’ . |