Example sentences of "[being] [art] [adj] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | In general , mobility falls with age ; the most mobile being the 16 to 24-year-old age group . |
| 2 | Gwendolen was clad in her dark blue serge travelling dress , this being the nearest to mourning she could manage . |
| 3 | The West Midlands has seen a remarkable economic collapse : Birmingham and Coventry were second and third only to London in the growth of new jobs between 1951 and 1961 , but between 1970 and 1983 relative earnings in the West Midlands fell from being the highest to being the lowest of any region . |
| 4 | 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 ’ . |
| 5 | Lawrence McGinty , late of these pages and now science 's man on Channel 4 's news programme — had the indignity of being the first to be ejected from the balloon . |
| 6 | The very next day the business was commenced , the artillery being the first to be moved , Ramsay and Fraser helping to superintend . |
| 7 | In the original case that was put forward , the basis of the economical assessment and its traffic flows , was on the western relief road being the first to be built . |
| 8 | It is possible to suggest an implicational series , using the symbols suggested in chapter 4.5 : as the rule diffuses through the lexicon , monosyllabic T environments are the first to be affected by it , followed by monosyllabic D environments , with the polysyllables being the last to be affected . |
| 9 | Part of the impetus behind these voluntary decisions also comes coincidentally from the Ministry of Labour who argue that rationalization requires a change in ‘ the concept of labour cost from being a fixed to a variable one ’ ( Hamada 1980 p.400 ) . |
| 10 | Even Craig Cwm Trwsgl in Cwm Pennant , home of the classic Exterminating Angel , has received some attention with Lloyd-Jones and Clive Stephenson adding Blinded By The Light , E4 5b , 6a , to the crag ; this route being a counter-diagonal to Day Of Reckoning . |
| 11 | I think it 's from being a haulier to being a parcel carrier now , Peter . |
| 12 | In the reshuffle that followed Brolly 's departure , Lloyd Webber himself moved from being a non-executive to an executive director on the Really Useful board . |