Example sentences of "to being [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He widened the faculty from being Anglican to being for all denominations . |
| 2 | Mr.Groves had aspirations to become a missionary and was instrumental in getting Kitto a place in the Missionary College in Islington , London where he learnt printing with a view to being of some service in some foreign missionary institution . |
| 3 | It was fortunate that I had a little time to accustom myself to being in such a place and to the thought of seeing my father . |
| 4 | The Arnoldian tradition relates art firmly to being in all its existential , moral and aesthetic modalities , but in so doing perhaps diminishes our awareness of the unique properties of the arts as arts ; conversely , while the continental schools in various ways direct our attention to the formal or technical properties of the arts ( even when contesting them ) , they perhaps risk losing the human frame of reference . |
| 5 | He had got used to being in this room , shut in by the four scrawled walls , the sloping ceiling and the unrelenting noise . |
| 6 | In Britain , the character of being a mobilizer or a reconciler is not related to being in any one party or being in opposition or government . |