Example sentences of "far from the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is far from the first time that the Fnac has made a widely publicised intervention claiming that discounting favours the interests of the consumer . |
| 2 | But he had used the wrong word ; ‘ peace ’ was far from the correct description of Merrill 's emotions , but … |
| 3 | Venezuela 's Muslim population is far from the largest in the region . |
| 4 | But Stravinsky 's music , although classical in form , was far from the tuneful dance idioms of Tchaikovsky , Stravinsky 's source of inspiration . |
| 5 | Unlike many of those who followed him and profited from pirated editions of his works , Russell was not a quack and his treatments were not to be taken lightly , the firm physical and mental regimen he prescribed being not far from the modern practices of hydropathic establishments or the health clubs beloved of overweight executives . |
| 6 | Sydney is a big as Los Angeles , and I was now far from the two teams I liked — Wests and St George . |
| 7 | But he was far from the political revolutionary which many observers thought him to be and as adapt at cooling the passions of the men as he was at arousing them . |
| 8 | It 's not far from the Imperial Francis . |
| 9 | Books , letters , documents , manuscripts — in my mind they are all indissolubly linked , members of one great family ; but it is far from the general feeling . |
| 10 | But we are far from the finished article . |
| 11 | Instead , students will experience a high degree of satisfaction from being able to speak a number of simple phrases " like a native " , while realising that they are far from the ultimate goal ( Rivers 1964 pp 83–4 ) . |
| 12 | So Scott has never been far from the sharp end — where all the action is , as they say — and he fired his latest salvo when Rhythm Section landed the Festival Bumper at Cheltenham for his brother-in-law , Belfast solicitor Robert Sinclair . |
| 13 | Part of Puppis rises over Europe and the northern United States — notably Rho , which is not far from the prominent triangle made up of Eta , Delta and Epsilon Canis Majoris . |
| 14 | A new approach must also recognise they also derive from wider non-location-specific political-economic relations , and also in other places that may be far from the affected area . |
| 15 | It was far from the idealized water-mill beloved by greetings-cards and table-mat manufacturers . |
| 16 | He 's far from the best rider around but he sticks to it , or to the horse which is more important I suppose ! |
| 17 | If we adopt this definition , which is not too far from the colloquial meaning , nice guys can finish first . |
| 18 | That , though , is far from the only reason for contemplating this remarkable substance |
| 19 | But it 's far from the only service we offer you . |
| 20 | Steffi Graf and Arantxa Sanchez Vicario , both winners in Paris before the Seles dynasty began three years ago , are far from the only pretenders to the vacant crown . |
| 21 | Such considerations are far from the traditional pre-occupations of demography . |
| 22 | The unsavoury reputation which the last of the sultans acquired during the late nineteenth century — especially Abdülaziz ( 1861–76 ) and Abdülhamid II ( 1876–1909 ) — has coloured the view which many western historians have taken of the Ottoman empire as a whole , but to many Christian subjects the Ottoman empire in its heyday was far from the horrific picture conjured up by the use of the phrase ‘ the long Turkish night ’ . |
| 23 | Being already in the City I was n't far from the divisional H.Q. , and I went along in the hope of finding Redpath there . |
| 24 | But the two-thirds society he is creating in Spain , and which is now , with variations , the European model , is far from the last word . |
| 25 | This was far from the last fling of the old system . |
| 26 | The insignia , a cross with the ends linked up and an eagle 's head at the centre , was n't far from the old Nazi swastika . |
| 27 | A monarch 's speech at a state opening of parliament , though spoken , is far from the reciprocal end of the scale , but a scribbled memo from one teacher to another , though written , may trigger off a series of replies and counter replies , and is thus highly reciprocal . |
| 28 | Firstly , the heading gives the impression that the production plans for the car and its fitness for purpose are in some way in doubt and this is very far from the true situation . |
| 29 | No one attempted to rebuild it , and the house soon reverted to being a farmhouse , as which it appeared in the film of Thomas Hardy 's Far from the Madding Crowd . |
| 30 | The poet characteristically longs to be not only far from the madding crowd , which Pope had wanted as much as Gray , but far from everybody . |