Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] [being] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is like asking a Jew to apologize for being a Jew . ’ |
| 2 | He 's the one who taught in Ohio me the important things I needed to know about being a man . ’ |
| 3 | I want to concentrate on being a good actress . ’ |
| 4 | Although former Neville men were predisposed to look to the duke , Gloucester still had to work at being a good lord in order to give substance to the relationship . |
| 5 | One obvious element was his willingness to work at being a good lord . |
| 6 | Although former Neville men were predisposed to look to the duke , Gloucester still had to work at being a good lord in order to give substance to the relationship . |
| 7 | One obvious element was his willingness to work at being a good lord . |
| 8 | They force us to choose between being a part of or apart from the world of our everyday living . |
| 9 | It seeks above all to help into being a multi-level network of partnerships . |
| 10 | Pupils may be invited to play at being a detective to resolve some mystery , or they might investigate the contents of a seaman 's chest , a collection of craftsman 's tools , or a doctor 's bag , or a lady 's valise , for example to help pupils to build up a picture of the people who used them . |
| 11 | ‘ What you really want to know is how long you will have to play at being a lady . |
| 12 | ‘ If she wishes to play at being a tourist , I will arrange for a guide for her . ’ |
| 13 | Was it something to do with being a vegetarian ? |
| 14 | But it 's got nothing to do with being a Nazi as far as I 'm concerned … |
| 15 | He wore a steel bracelet on his wrist — something to do with being a Sikh , Nutty understood , with rain , and she had Midnight to ride . |
| 16 | ‘ Naah , it 's all definitely worth doing , it 's nothing to do with being a fad or something specifically Californian , it just makes you feel better … ‘ |
| 17 | But every single thing to do with being a Muslim seemed quite incredibly controversial . |
| 18 | ‘ I found it quite a transition to go from being a single bloke to being married . |
| 19 | This expired in 1978 , but by this time it was such an established force in user education in the USA that it was able to switch to being a self-financing , subscription-funded clearinghouse in that year . |
| 20 | One is to settle for being a minority government , and hope to collect enough support each time a parliamentary vote comes up to win the day and stay in office . |
| 21 | He would have provided an excellent model for Stendhal 's portrait of the capricious but timid despot of Parma whose minister warned him that ‘ to have received power from Providence is no longer enough in these times ; it requires brains and a strong character to succeed in being a despot ’ . |
| 22 | Your wife says you have a lot to learn about being a parent , but it is she who has a lot to learn . |
| 23 | The price to pay for being a vessel for divine birth seems to be rather a high one . |
| 24 | Punch 's newspaper has to think about being a little less boring . |
| 25 | ‘ Girls ’ , he called us , ‘ girls ’ , enjoying his situation : it was as near as he was likely to get to being a pasha in a harem . |
| 26 | The Financial Times added that , although Pearson has not plans to dispose of its oil services and fine china businesses for the foreseeable future , the company is likely to move towards being a ‘ more tightly focused media and entertainment group ’ . |
| 27 | The link was severed on 1 July and the aim is to move to being a single status organisation by 1 August 1994 . |
| 28 | The development of republican publishing industries , for instance , had helped to bring into being a group of local writers and journalists who tended naturally to operate in terms of the idiom with which both they and their readers were most familiar . |
| 29 | I have to admit to being a bit of a philistine where flower arranging is concerned . |
| 30 | In most professions it was suicide to admit to being a homosexual , and in some macho jobs like bricklaying it was probably asking for a brick to be dropped upon one 's head . |