Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] from being " in BNC.
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| 1 | Younger writers now tend to suffer from being overpraised , which makes it difficult living up to expectations . |
| 2 | Under this leadership over the past decade the company has grown from being an essentially UK woodworm and pest control company , to an international enterprise with a broad base of environmental services in every major world economy . |
| 3 | Whatever the future holds for Northern Ireland , it is clear that Ian Paisley has moved from being a prophet crying in the wilderness to the centre of the unionist stage . |
| 4 | He has moved from being a persecuted minority to a person with full and equal ‘ rights ’ . |
| 5 | Over the long term , income tax has moved from being a tax paid only by the rich to one levied on quite poor people . |
| 6 | In recent years the UK has moved from being heavily reliant on oil imports to self sufficiency . |
| 7 | Now that Kilwinning has mushroomed from being a small village to having a population of almost 16,500 , it is to be hoped that some of the new residents will take an interest in the town 's historic past and will ensure the continued existence of the Ancient Society of Kilwinning Archers and the papingo shoot . |
| 8 | We have a population which has benefited from being able to tap into a wide and diverse range of information through the printed word . |
| 9 | Since its inception Super-SARA has slipped from being a pioneer project into the safety of nuclear reactor cores after a severe accident to an also-ran . |
| 10 | DAMON HILL , who has progressed from being a hard-up member of a punk rock band to one of Formula One 's most envied drivers , admitted last night that he had never had it so good . |
| 11 | ‘ He has gone from being totally subdued and unsure of everyone to playing games , just as we used to . |
| 12 | In short , " you know what I mean " has gone from being an agreement-seeker to being a marker of agreement in conversation . |
| 13 | Through her involvement , Birthright has leapt from being a fringe charity into a major one . |
| 14 | Our present party system and the way it works in elections has passed from being nearly useless to being pretty dangerous . |
| 15 | Now in its 25th year , the Crisis Open Christmas campaign has evolved from being a small-scale soup kitchen into an extremely sophisticated operation . |
| 16 | it 's an enormous adaptation that the baby has to make from being cocooned inside its mum to actually living outside , it has a whole host of new things to do , it 's got ta breath , it 's got ta eat it 's erm , it 's excretory system has got to work , bowels and bladder , it 's got to control its own temperature . |
| 17 | Just as the snack has changed from being a national joke into a respected billion pound industry almost overnight , so the most humble sector of the hospitality industry is on course to become the high-flier of the 1990s . |
| 18 | Llanberis has changed from being a slate quarrying town to being a tourist centre . |
| 19 | That is to say that a word in bold in your word processor file should still be bold when it gets onto the page , even though it has changed from being monospaced typescript to a real typeface and may be in a different size altogether . |
| 20 | Turnour has changed from being relaxed and comfortable with what he was about to do to feeling uneasy in a strange environment which has now put him in a bad mood . |
| 21 | His attitude has changed from being one of someone superior punishing someone who had insulted him to that of him being a bully and chasing down a poor wretch . |
| 22 | The survey has changed from being an instrument devoted to demonstrating the need for a welfare state into a central feature of its maintenance and administration . |
| 23 | After a while skateboarding changed from being something you do to being everything . |
| 24 | Women 's power is n't going to come from the unions , it 's going to come from being organised as women . |
| 25 | They 've got bent from being in my pocket — there 's a crease right across Marie 's forehead . |
| 26 | Ludens was not sure about Marcus 's ability to find new people , but certainly did not mind benefiting from being an ‘ old one ’ . |
| 27 | Whatever happens , try to protect these stone sets from being dug up and thrown away . |
| 28 | ‘ Glad to see you 've recovered from being goosed by Mrs Cody . |
| 29 | In that period of time we 'd have dropped from being the largest and preferred supplier to a minority supplier |
| 30 | In less than a decade Japan could have moved from being the most lightly taxed OECD country to being one of the most heavily taxed . |