Example sentences of "[adv] to being " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was used enough to being left behind while Gloria went off , but it seemed more dangerous to do it the other way around , for her to leave Gloria behind . |
| 2 | More , an orthodox chromosomal gene and a virus that is transmitted inside the host 's egg would agree in wanting the host to succeed not just in its courtship but in every detailed aspect of its life , down to being a loyal , doting parent and even grandparent . |
| 3 | Their misfortune is often put down to being ‘ no one 's fault , or an accident . |
| 4 | The quality plan , erm a lot of ticks , but no names , apart from the detailed design drawings and I , we thought that the quality plan , the idea was to pin somebody down to being responsible for each actual item erm . |
| 5 | When asked by the masters where it came from , he put it down to being ‘ good with my tongue ’ , and they nodded sagely , wondering why he smiled . |
| 6 | He got right in to being that successful South Africa skipper ( 8 ) |
| 7 | But let me show you exactly what we I 'll I 'll bring in to being the list of businesses which we invite the golf club to forward to us . |
| 8 | Occasionally they are led through the freshly flooded rice-paddies to turn and fertilize the soil ; otherwise their duties extend only to being sacrificed at noble funerals such as these , and leaving their magnificent horns attached in layers to the Toraja houses whose residents had so generously supplied them . |
| 9 | This shift in position marked a decline in status as well as income , but was preferable perhaps to being sacked . |
| 10 | She was no longer in the habit of being late : her life had schooled her to temporal accuracy , perhaps to being considerate . |
| 11 | In one terrifying episode , Mrs Thatcher and her ministers came close to being collectively murdered in the bombing of the Grand Hotel , Brighton , in October 1984 . |
| 12 | Alone , the two girls were playful as they went about their tasks , mischievous at times , even carefully boisterous ; but as soon as their father came in they would sink into a beseeching drabness , cower as close to being invisible as they could . |
| 13 | The vole , he says , appears to be coming perilously close to being endangered ; and this means that Britain 's wetlands are going the same way . |
| 14 | Sir Samuel , disguised in drag , comes close to being ravished by Sir Formal ; the curmudgeon turns out to have a taste for flagellation . |
| 15 | Predictably , though , there was little resemblence between this defeated Liverpool side and the one that came so close to being knocked out of the FA Cup in the semi-final against Portsmouth at Highbury . |
| 16 | Pringle hovered uncomfortably on 99 , coming close to being stumped and leg before to Salisbury before the vital runs came on the stroke of the close . |
| 17 | An interesting sign of the times was the Ladies ' request in 1937 to have a bar-hatch cut into the lounge , at their expense , but despite Mrs. J. Chalcraft and Miss Lorna Simmons attending a main Committee to put the case , their request was lost 7–3 , although a referendum on the subject came close to being conducted . |
| 18 | Anger was getting close to being out of control , Briant suddenly realized , and he made a conscious effort to push it down . |
| 19 | With his plans close to being finalised , Peckham is diplomatic . |
| 20 | I hope you will agree that in these two instances I have cited from his career — both of which I have had corroborated and believe to be accurate — my father not only manifests , but comes close to being the personification itself , of what the Hayes Society terms ‘ dignity in keeping with his position ’ . |
| 21 | The few in their thirties were well balanced by those of us close to being geriatrics . |
| 22 | It is not a fantasy to say that Nancy has now come close to being a myth , and with a fiction writer that is exceedingly dangerous , for sometimes I ask myself , did Nancy ever exist ? |
| 23 | In any event , the proposal came close to being passed , and failed only because of last year 's legislative jam-up , Helping it along were the customary health-lobbying tactics , such as having Senator Barry Goldwater , still recuperating from a double hip-joint replacement , hobble into a hearing room on crutches to testify on behalf of the proposed institute . |
| 24 | It 's actually too thin to be uncomfortable , funnily enough ; none of the sharp edges even come close to being a nightmare for the rib cage . |
| 25 | The trial unmasked him as a complete charlatan and , in the words of one detective , ‘ as close to being the perfect rapist as you could get ’ . |
| 26 | When Ojomoh boards that plane on December 31 he steps into a new world , the elite strata of an elite sport — not bad for a lad who never saw a rugby ball until he was 13 , ca n't get a first team game and came close to being escorted to a plane by police . |
| 27 | Tom Peters — the top US management guru — cites the example of the US Harley Davidson motorcycle plant , which came close to being put out of business by Japanese competition some eight years ago . |
| 28 | Stupidity is coming pretty close to being a national currency in the US . |
| 29 | But when one track came dangerously close to being ‘ rompalong , knees-up , power-pop anthem ’ the band quickly sabotaged it by sticking ‘ a cheesy drum machine behind it and turning the last two minutes into a total sonic attack ’ — much to the tearful bewilderment of their paymasters , left-field Belgians Play It Again Sam . |
| 30 | The walk outlined here comes close to being a true wilderness area , being lonely , beautiful and sometimes precarious . |