"far from receiving" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is typically used to show contrast between an expected or desired outcome and the actual outcome. Here is an example: Far from receiving a promotion, Jenny was actually demoted to a lower position.
Far from receiving favoritism, he said, his small pharmacy was almost destroyed by an unforgiving government bureaucracy and is now being swept into a politicized inquiry.
And far from receiving official support for their contributions to the economy and the environment, they live in constant fear of police harassment, capricious detentions and deportation to their former homes.
On the issue of Virgin Rail – where we did win a highly competitive bid to run the west coast mainline – we have doubled passenger numbers from 14 million to 30 million and, far from receiving subsidies, we now pay more than £100m a year to the taxpayer.
But far from receiving support from industry, which has the most to gain from the community patent, three of the most influential industry lobby groups have advised the commission to drop the initiative for now and instead improve the existing patent regime run by the European Patent Office in Munich.
Far from receiving equal time, teachers were given no time at all.
(Why not a $20 monthly fee for debit card use?) But far from receiving an eager farewell at bank branches impatient to shed small-time depositors, many of those who have descended upon institutions such as Citibank demanding to close their accounts report encountering bank managers who tried to convince them to change their minds.
He thinks that using language that is familiar with his readers is a good way to make his views seem not too far removed from received opinions.
By overemphasizing the degree of reality that he grants bodies he is able to introduce the theory of monads in a way that makes it appear less far removed from received opinions.
His "Poison," for example, won the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival in 1991, and "Far From Heaven" received four Academy Award nominations, including one for its star, Julianne Moore.
It is futile to do so, however, just as it is futile to argue that far from being received as a negative portrayal that would damage or undermine the image of a community as its "leaders" claim to fear, the novel was received as a warm and sympathetic portrayal, with readers and critics alike proclaiming an entirely different sort of response.
But a third successive away defeat leaves the newly promoted west Londoners in the bottom three and compounds a miserable afternoon for Redknapp, who received a far from welcome reception on his return to a club that he guided to relegation in 2005.
