Example sentences of "changed [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just as the snack has changed from being a national joke into a respected billion pound industry almost overnight , so the most humble sector of the hospitality industry is on course to become the high-flier of the 1990s . |
| 2 | Like King Arthur of the Britons , Charles the Great , Caroli Magni , changed from being a historical person into a legendary ideal — the great ruler who set the world aright , and encouraged men and women to live by a fusion of spiritual and material principles . |
| 3 | Like everyone else , I became equally at home with both systems , and I was doubly fortunate in that while I was still a student the metric system changed from being ‘ cgs ’ based ( centimetres , grams , seconds ) to ‘ MKS ’ based ( Metres , Kilograms , Seconds ) . |
| 4 | After a while skateboarding changed from being something you do to being everything . |
| 5 | Llanberis has changed from being a slate quarrying town to being a tourist centre . |
| 6 | Taphonomy is the study of all processes affecting bones as they become changed from being parts of living animals to being preserved as fossils . |
| 7 | By the time it published the first issue of its bulletin , STOP , in February 1980 the DUC had effectively changed from being an information and research group into an opposition group , as the bulletin made clear : ‘ After investigation into the hazards related to uranium and its by-products , the DUC feels that since uranium can not be mined safely , exploration should cease . ’ |
| 8 | The headquarters of the GLC , the great pile of County Hall , changed from being a tedious and unloved administrative centre to become the Right-On rival to the House of Commons directly across the River Thames . |
| 9 | So our perception of the nature of time changed from being independent of the universe to being shaped by it . |
| 10 | That is to say that a word in bold in your word processor file should still be bold when it gets onto the page , even though it has changed from being monospaced typescript to a real typeface and may be in a different size altogether . |
| 11 | By the late 1950s , air pollution in California had changed from being a Los Angeles problem to one that was experienced by most urban and some rural areas throughout the state . |
| 12 | Within groups — collections of individuals , with no special ties with each other , grew into closely-knit groups ; the group climate changed from being play-orientated to work orientated , and leadership tended to become more autocratic ; each group became more highly structured and put a much greater emphasis on loyalty and conformity . |
| 13 | Why have we changed from being liners to being tramps ? |
| 14 | Since the World War II , it has gradually changed from being selective , non-selective and then selective again , according to the Government and has been used as a great political tool . |
| 15 | At the same time , we must have a proper national debate to see how many estuaries can be changed from being tidal areas , where there is extremely good feeding for birds , to areas which , in effect , become inland lakes . |
| 16 | Turnour has changed from being relaxed and comfortable with what he was about to do to feeling uneasy in a strange environment which has now put him in a bad mood . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The survey has changed from being an instrument devoted to demonstrating the need for a welfare state into a central feature of its maintenance and administration . |
| 19 | Geneva states that in the 1980s , ‘ IVF and allied procedures changed from being purely experimental in character to become accepted treatments for certain types of infertility and the numbers of centres offering them increased rapidly ’ . |
| 20 | It was during the generation after Waterloo that the balance of English economic and social life changed from being predominantly agricultural to being predominantly industrial ; and with this change … came the growth of urbanization , the development of the mine and factory as the unit of production , and the transformation of the " average " Englishman into a townsman rather than a countryman . |
| 21 | The concepts themselves have an earlier history on the margin of the philosophical tradition , and were changed in being drawn to the centre . |
| 22 | The Profitboss believes that the union problem can be overcome , that attitudes can he made positive , payment systems made equitable , management developed to be competent , personnel departments changed to be constructive . |
| 23 | unc Sometimes you will find questions like this : ⅖ + ⅓ Here neither denominator can be changed to be the same as the other . |
| 24 | The scrolled area allows the names of any modules which are to be changed to be entered , up to a maximum of 29 . |