Example sentences of "their [noun] be far from " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lists of freemen of the city must be used with great caution , for their coverage was far from complete , but they indicate patterns of immigration amongst the ‘ middling ’ groups of townsmen — the tradesmen , craftsmen and shopkeepers who together accounted for at least half the adult male population . |
| 2 | While all the neural crest cells are not completely multipotent their fate is far from fixed as they begin to migrate . |
| 3 | Yet they 're one of the few products not advertised on TV , probably because their appearance is far from viewer-friendly . |
| 4 | Some older men and women have very comfortable incomes , and the recent spread of advertised facilities for them such as sheltered home developments suggests their numbers are far from insignificant . |
| 5 | Given the abstract nature of our alphabetic system for representing language , and the abstract nature of our wholly context-free numerical system , their acquisition is far from immediate or straightforward . |
| 6 | Their stay is far from leisurely . |