Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] being [adj] [conj] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 However , what the questions and responses do illustrate is that the notion of a discipline or subject , which is the basic building-block of the undergraduate curriculum , far from being straightforward and clearly defined , is in fact extremely complex .
2 The boy was so far from being ill-used or closely confined that he apparently lived a normal life , at least within the walls , going and coming much as he pleased , and eating in hall like a member of the household .
3 The Seagram Grand National looks to be an ideal race for Royal Cedar , who jumps economically without being spectacular and never put a foot wrong here .
4 But the hermeneutic tradition prevents such final accounts at least from being easy and perhaps from being possible .
5 One 's lifestyle in television can be stressful , artificial and erratic , quite apart from being exciting and creatively fulfilling .
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