Example sentences of "[noun] from [be] [art] [noun sg] " 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 | Neither man , however , is commenting on the goings on which have turned Mr Lines from being the industry 's darling , he even had his 40-acre Teesport chemicals development blessed by Mrs Thatcher , into the pariah of the market . |
| 3 | But can he make a living from being a lookalike ? |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ’ . |
| 6 | He revealed : ‘ I 've dreamt of this moment right from being a boy-racer at the age of nine . |
| 7 | This was critical , since it took the new tax from being a hybrid to being a loosely-disguised property tax . |
| 8 | 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 ) . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 ) . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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) ) . |
| 15 | The change from being a child to an adult involves a great deal more than physical and biological change . |
| 16 | ‘ Another thing that we 've had a lot of use from was the baby bouncer ; it 's the type that hangs on the door frame . |
| 17 | This image-conscious city got some relief from being the place where Kennedy was killed as a result of ‘ Dallas ’ , a television series glorifying the pluck and greed of the oil patch . |
| 18 | But because he was guilty of an indictable offence , he was also disqualified by the Assistant Recorder from being a company director for two years under the Company Directors Disqualification Act 1986 . |
| 19 | As it made the historic journey from being a charity team for Irish immigrants in Glasgow 's East End in 1888 to being a European Cup winning team in 1967 , there is a widely held myth that the club resents spending money and keeps its funds in the infamous biscuit tin , a closely guarded money chest under the Parkhead bed . |
| 20 | These are the sort of achievements and skills that you may have under your belt from being a member of such social groups : |
| 21 | Kano State Radio is the mouthpiece of the government of Governor Abubakar Rimi , which is a very different thing from being a PRP radio station ; indeed , the PRP , led by the late Aminu Kano , had the doubtful distinction of being without any mass media outlet at all during most of the period between the 1979 and 1983 elections . |
| 22 | It knows that the pageant derives its reality from being a circus and it demands that the circus fulfils rationalized functions . |
| 23 | Anticipation of the decision transformed the Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro stock markets from being the world 's worst performers in 1990 to currently the best . |
| 24 | We can derive a strength from being a family company that other businesses can not . |
| 25 | Under French rule broadcasting had no pretensions to autonomy and so made a fairly smooth transition from being an arm of French colonialism to being an arm of the new African governments . |
| 26 | If anyone had prevented Elinor from being an oil executive , or a leading novelist and short-story writer , it was Elinor 's mother , a small , heavily built woman with a squint , who lived very near the Sellafield atomic reactor. principally because Elinor 's mother was completely without talent for anything apart from giving men a hard time and had , presumably , passed on her genes to her daughter . |
| 27 | ‘ And you 're a long way from being a saint , are n't you ? ’ he drawled mischievously . |
| 28 | With figures like these the WEA , here as elsewhere , was a long way from being the body of ‘ middle-class ’ students pursuing ‘ soft options ’ which its critics liked to allege . |
| 29 | He was a long way from being an alcoholic , but he was vulnerable to heavy social drinking and was a sucker for the old Scottish adage ‘ One For The Road ’ . |
| 30 | Their Notice No 700 has the force of law when stating in para 56 and 69(a) that the words stop the document from being a VAT invoice . |