Example sentences of "from be [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now , however , a comparison … has made clear that what the older version mainly suffers from are considerable deficiencies in ‘ discourse structure ’ , i.e. , in the way the sentences are combined into well-integrated paragraphs , and these in turn into a well-constructed whole . |
| 2 | From being shifty Mrs Goreng started to become nervous and then irritable . |
| 3 | I suppose it comes from being lifelong buddies — you rub off on each other , reflect each other 's personality . |
| 4 | Some months after Wilson resigned from being prime minister , he admitted to two journalists that he believed there was a faction in DI5 sympathetic to the South African and Rhodesian authorities . |
| 5 | thickened from being battered year on year |
| 6 | Hillier , who guided Langley from being perennial re-election candidates to a first division side in only two seasons , announced his decision to quit after yesterday 's 2–1 win Gretna . |
| 7 | My father being a railwayman and er asking and doing various jobs from being ordinary shunter and man-about , eventually graduated by way of He 's he was a Lancashire man , you see ? |
| 8 | However , current research shows that early humans did not generally rely on a meat diet , but that plant foods were at least as important : far from being mighty hunters , early humans are more likely to have been opportunist scavengers . |
| 9 | And , from being part-time entertainers on the toilet circuit , Suede have been disturbingly promoted to potential saviours of the entire music industry . |
| 10 | Wooed from being European marketing director of Coca-Cola , Hogan was then , and remains now , the architect of FI 'S promotional side , if only because Marlboro controls so great a proportion of the FI budget : through direct sponsorship of its teams , through individual contracts with drivers , through sponsorship of races , through general advertising , through supporting the press , through the general glamorizing of the sport . |
| 11 | From being polite strangers they had become like sparring lovers speaking their minds with a familiarity which was extraordinary in its intensity . |
| 12 | From being little-known property owners , who were simply willing to risk where others hesitated , the Reichmanns were suddenly stars in the financial firmament of America . |
| 13 | It is plain too , that dinosaurs in their highest forms were far from being lumbering brutes ; and there is overwhelming evidence that what finally defeated them was not competition from ‘ higher ’ forms of life , but changes in climate , possibly exacerbated by catastrophic events , including the impact of giant meteors . |
| 14 | I visualise a matrix even more subtle to taste the most intangible fruit of the soul ; and one day men will fall heir to a Golconda of the most beautiful emotions and joys , and from being mere trappers and hunters we shall become harvesters . |
| 15 | The need is to move unions on from being state-controlled agencies for controlling industrial production to collective bargaining organisations . |
| 16 | For example , there are dual currency bonds , where the coupon payments are in one currency and the redemption proceeds are in another ; currency change bonds , where coupons are first paid in one currency and then in another ; deferred coupon bonds , where there is a delay in the payment of the first coupon ; multiple coupon bonds , where the coupon payments change over the life of the bond ( although in a predetermined manner ) , fixed-then-floating bonds , where the coupons change from being fixed rate to floating rate ; floating-then-zero bonds , where the bonds change from being floating-rate coupon bonds to zero-coupon bonds ; and missing coupon bonds , where a coupon payment is missed whenever a dividend payment on the issuing corporation 's shares are missed . |
| 17 | ( This precludes them from being irreligious communists . ) |
| 18 | Despite this allusion to financial gentility , the truth was that Michael Joyce 's income derived from rented property , and from being general manager of the horse trams in Galway . |
| 19 | Because it portrays male dominance and , on occasion , male violence in a sexual context , porn , in this view , is far from being harmless smut . |
| 20 | And they claim that , far from being innocent fun , the blow-up castles are putting children at risk of serious injury . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | For example , there are dual currency bonds , where the coupon payments are in one currency and the redemption proceeds are in another ; currency change bonds , where coupons are first paid in one currency and then in another ; deferred coupon bonds , where there is a delay in the payment of the first coupon ; multiple coupon bonds , where the coupon payments change over the life of the bond ( although in a predetermined manner ) , fixed-then-floating bonds , where the coupons change from being fixed rate to floating rate ; floating-then-zero bonds , where the bonds change from being floating-rate coupon bonds to zero-coupon bonds ; and missing coupon bonds , where a coupon payment is missed whenever a dividend payment on the issuing corporation 's shares are missed . |
| 23 | I have no difficulty in accepting certain supposedly key Freudian notions , such as the existence of the unconscious mind and its effect on our daily living , and the self-contradictory and self-defeating quality of much human behaviour , but these are far from being original discoveries . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | These two suggestions , far from being enlightened liberation of all children , are actually oppression of a deeply damaging kind to at least some , and Harris 's suggestion contains a capacity criterion in disguise . |
| 26 | And , far from being teenage tearaways , the typical offender is a middle-aged white-collar worker who probably drinks lager . |
| 27 | Local authorities are changing from being direct providers of services to enablers . |
| 28 | at the moment the only source it 's come from is directed projects . |
| 29 | Relaxed and expansive in his office , explained how he used a local policeman to obtain details from 's criminal record on the police national computer . |