Example sentences of "[verb] from [being] one " in BNC.
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| 1 | The album , ‘ Girlfriend ’ , is saved from being one of those embarrassingly wimpy singer/songwriter affairs firstly by Sweet 's own humour and taste and secondly by the presence of some of the hippest musos in New York : Television 's famed guitarist Richard Lloyd , kd lang 's imaginative pedal steel player Greg Leisz , Lou Reed 's old skinbasher Fred Maher ( also producing ) and last , but not least , that elusive and exclusive Fender bender Mr. Robert Quine . |
| 2 | By the time he called it a day , he had played in 60 Tests and taken 249 wickets at 23 , and like all of his fast-bowling colleagues had benefited from being one of a quartet as he could operate in short spells and rest more often . |
| 3 | I mean , some people have kind of butterfly minds , with butterfly behaviour , and they switch from being one type of person or another type of person almost minute by minute . |
| 4 | In less than 30 years , the British economy had declined from being one of the strongest to one of the weakest in Europe . |
| 5 | 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 . |