Example sentences of "[verb] be [adv] from [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mature Student was defined as someone who has been away from continuous education for more than one year . |
| 2 | The June 5 announcement that Foreign Minister Ghozali was to be the new Prime Minister prompted favourable international press comment ; Tehran radio said that he was " recognized by the Islamists as someone who has been away from domestic confrontation " . |
| 3 | Its profits record , which has been far from outstanding , suggests that it is wrong . |
| 4 | Both her looks and personality came from a ride to stardom that has been far from comfortable . |
| 5 | But the year since Robert Maxwell 's death has been far from comfortable . |
| 6 | The task of loading and storing the data has been far from trivial ; for one thing , the total raw data in the SAS/LBS for Great Britain at all areal levels comes to some 6–7 gigabytes . |
| 7 | We had already settled for Peru when Terry rang , but the vision he described was far from encouraging : Lima a cauldron of unrest and theft , the hills in the hands of ‘ Sendero , ’ the country on the edge of collapse . |
| 8 | And I 'd been there from six in the morning till quarter to nine . |
| 9 | The modest honours he received were mainly from natural history societies , but in 1873 he was awarded the honorary degree of MA by Yale University , in 1902 the Victoria medal of honour by the Royal Horticultural Society , and in 1903 the gold medal of the Linnean Society . |
| 10 | But while the legislators were vying with each other to amend insolvency laws which all were agreed were far from fair or just , in 1842 they were able to agree on the need to do away with the notorious symbol of that unfairness and injustice , the Fleet Prison . |
| 11 | The conclusion to be drawn from the above discussion is that while market forces undoubtedly constrain management behaviour , the disciplinary framework they impose is far from complete . |
| 12 | ( Even so , Valentin 's marriage did not survive and it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that its atmosphere must have been far from normal . |
| 13 | The fears of insecurity which the system once provoked were far from notional — for example , the number of possession orders granted to farmers in England and Wales in 1975 was 1268 . |
| 14 | If there were no need for sheltered workshops because disabled people were fully integrated into ‘ normal ’ society , then it would be a gain ; but if , as I suspect , in these hard times it is impossible for many severely disabled people to get a job of any sort , surely the lack of opportunity to go to work is a loss — even if the kind of work they do is far from ideal . |
| 15 | What this means is far from clear . |
| 16 | Mr Modrow also criticised the party 's former leader , Mr Egon Krenz , who he said had been far from honest in saying he was a reformer . |
| 17 | Mr Modrow also criticised the party 's former leader , Mr Egon Krenz , who he said had been far from honest in saying he was a reformer . |
| 18 | The visit had been far from successful , for Adam had sulked when offered the four-ten , the so-called ‘ lady 's gun ’ . |
| 19 | 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 |
| 20 | Both Croatia and the Lebanon objected on the grounds that Sotheby 's had been far from complete in its discovery process , and was trying to slip out from the case before the evidence of Mr Camber was made available . |
| 21 | He linked the freedom of the foreign-owned press in Africa to the general principle of press freedom , but remarked that its effects had been far from encouraging : the press had done things that he personally was very unhappy about . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | In later years , Roderick confided that he had been far from happy with the title , for the book certainly was not " elementary " . |
| 24 | Earlier in the day , Jeffrey had been far from happy to learn that the Scotland seven to be chosen from a pool of ten — Hong Kong have increased from nine to remain consistent with the World Cup format — would have around five hours between their ties tomorrow . |
| 25 | Only a few days before an ITV programme had been far from complimentary about some of the Salvation Army hostels . |
| 26 | To be able just to walk , or drive , wherever you want ; Christ , I 've been away from all this for less than a week and I feel like somebody coming out after thirty years . |
| 27 | You 've been away from active duty for a while , have n't you ? ’ |
| 28 | The quotations that follow are both from personal letters to the present writers , commenting on a published suggestion that those who give advice to parents often do not pay enough attention to the parents ' own views . |
| 29 | It is as simple as that ( though I guess the skills required are far from simple ) . |
| 30 | This year has been hard work for us , and for our trainees , some of whom have been away from formal education for some time . |