Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [prep] [being] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Teresa may benefit most from being an only child . |
| 2 | That victory followed on from success in the Dewhurst International in March , where she came through from being a reserve qualifier to reach the semi-finals . |
| 3 | Matthew Miles has moved up from being a National Account Executive in the Multiples Sector to become National Account Manager in the sector , reporting to Gary Lunt . |
| 4 | Although the government has gone to great lengths ( £1 million spent on marketing the proposals ( in an attempt to convince us that the NHS will still remain a National Health Service and will still be free to those requiring health care the proposals clearly spell the future of a health service which will move away from being a public tax funded service to a two tier service , with those who ca n't afford to pay on the bottom level receiving inadequate and cash starved services . |
| 5 | He kept telling him to go back to being a serious actor . |
| 6 | Iain Laughland , for one , has gone on from being a long-serving cap from London Scottish to be the exiles ' representative on the Scottish Rugby Union committee and , ex officio , chairman of the Anglo-Scots ' committee . |
| 7 | ‘ I will not give up comedy completely , but I will never go back to being a stand-up comic again . |
| 8 | ‘ If you must know , it 's a hat Sebastian left behind w — ’ she began , and was rudely chopped off when Naylor Massingham went back to being a snarling brute again . |
| 9 | Senior sources say it is appropriate for Whitbread to move away from being a family-dominated group , saddled with an arcane share structure , in 1992 , its 250th anniversary . |
| 10 | Without consultation , Hayling had invited Pilger to move up from being a mere adviser to the new post of editorial director . |
| 11 | The walk outlined here comes close to being a true wilderness area , being lonely , beautiful and sometimes precarious . |