Example sentences of "[noun] from [be] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | David and Catherine shared with us during the evening service on December 29th , and explained how God had led David from being a car mechanic into the mission field in Brazil . |
| 2 | In both books , neither community were prepared to give the outsiders a chance , it 's their obvious ignorance and old ways which prevent their neighbourhood from being a complete one . |
| 3 | But can he make a living from being a lookalike ? |
| 4 | At that stage I was up to my sticky-out ears in Shetland 's music scene , and still harbouring a yearning to make a living from being a boring-but-sometimes-funny singer-songwriter . |
| 5 | For some time , Olschewski has also been trying to change the image of the German subsidiary from being a hardware manufacturer to a service provider . |
| 6 | One benefit from being an old fart is that you get chance to play with yer kids ’ stuff . |
| 7 | Although only financial control is centralised , IDG reaps some advantages from being a global group . |
| 8 | As one writer has noted , ‘ There is a turning from being a star player to being a coach , from being the patronized to becoming a patron , from being totally preoccupied with oneself to being preoccupied with the generation which will take over ’ . |
| 9 | He revealed : ‘ I 've dreamt of this moment right from being a boy-racer at the age of nine . |
| 10 | Further , he suggested that the principle of the exemption of the civilian population from being an intentional object of warfare had been so whittled down during the Second World War and in post-1945 treaties as to cease to offer reliable guidance except in the most unambiguous circumstances . |
| 11 | If , for instance , the national government has been stripped of its ultimate authority , no amount of elections , speeches or appearances on television of politicians will prevent the process from being a twisted perversion of democracy . |
| 12 | This was critical , since it took the new tax from being a hybrid to being a loosely-disguised property tax . |
| 13 | The plan involved proposals to reduce excess capacity and to transform Rover from being a volume car producer to a specialist producer in an ‘ up-market move ’ with the aim of increasing profit per car sold ( see Figure 4.2 ) . |
| 14 | Ben Johnson improved in four years from being a skinny undersized 15-year-old to running the 100 metres in 10.25 and becoming one of the world 's leading juniors — on nothing more exceptional than plenty of food , regular training and competitive instinct . |
| 15 | Both gave glamorised summaries of Nicola 's rise in the space of ten years from being a cub reporter on a local newspaper in Keighley to ‘ stardom ’ at TV London . |
| 16 | Optical Character Recognition ( OCR ) has advanced over the years from being a very imprecise science that needed special fonts ( you might remember printers being equipped with OCR A and OCR B ) . |
| 17 | To preclude a charge from being a floating charge , the restriction must substantially deprive the company of the power to deal with its assets in the normal course of business . |
| 18 | Ken , as that star , received star treatment from this reviewer of the revue — which incidentally got its title from being a company of eight performing at eight o'clock each evening . |
| 19 | Thereafter each student passes before the Chancellor , who says ‘ I admit you ’ and at that moment the student changes from being a graduand ( one who has satisfied all the requirements for a degree ) to a graduate ( one who has been admitted to the degree and is entitled to the privileges thereof including use of the designatory letters , e.g. BA , MSc or PhD ) . |
| 20 | One way and another John had had his fill of the theory of price lately , and the last person he wanted to take lessons in economics from was an avaricious north Welsh merchant . |
| 21 | This can be seen by considering the concept of ‘ prejudice ’ itself and its transformation from being a concept of Enlightenment philosophy to a concept , which permits , by its apparent criticism , the expression of prejudice in everyday discourse . |
| 22 | The ‘ Shivering Mountain ’ derives its name from being a distinctly unstable lump of land , given to landslips . |
| 23 | The press has shifted its emphasis from being a backlist publisher , selling books over five to ten years , to selling its frontlist within two years , reprinting when necessary , rather than having vast stocks gathering dust in a warehouse . |
| 24 | The fact that goods such as manuals and floppy disks may also be transferred does not prevent the contract from being a contract for the supply of services ( section 12(3) ) . |
| 25 | What O'Neillism did for Paisleyism was to raise in a concrete way the possibility of change from being a Protestant society and culture ( constantly threatened by the old enemy within and without ) to being a secular modern society in which religious affiliation would be of little consequence . |
| 26 | The change from being a child to an adult involves a great deal more than physical and biological change . |
| 27 | Clearly demonstrated the complexity of the issues in a well-argued presentation which suffered at times from being a little unfocussed . |
| 28 | Time 's winged chariot , complete with skeleton and scythe , is converted during the play from being a trivial ornament in an artist 's studio to a darker symbol of Dorian 's decline , and the whole drama unfolds under a vast sundial , bedecked with clouds but surrounded by Roman numerals for the hours . |
| 29 | I 've started a quiet enquiry to find out who 's making money from being an unofficial outlet . ’ |
| 30 | Nevertheless Clovis had transformed the Franks from being an essentially northern people to one which was influential in the wider politics of Gaul and the Mediterranean . |