Example sentences of "from [being] one [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is far from being one of the outer world , but in reading his work we constantly feel the influence upon him of his reading of the worst English poets . |
| 2 | Apart from being one of the smallest ( 225 square miles ) of the 11 national parks in England and Wales , the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park is also the only park in Britain which is largely coastal and mainly covering lowland areas . |
| 3 | By the time he called it a day , he had played in 60 Tests and taken 249 wickets at 23 , and like all of his fast-bowling colleagues had benefited from being one of a quartet as he could operate in short spells and rest more often . |
| 4 | His portrait was modified , in stages which can be dated by coins , from a depiction in the tradition of a Hellenistic king to one based on the canons valued in the Greek city-state , thereby reflecting his change from being one of the warlords in the civil wars after Caesar 's death to a new ‘ democratic ’ position after the settlement as first citizen , ‘ first among equals ’ ( fig. 17 ) . |
| 5 | The album , ‘ Girlfriend ’ , is saved from being one of those embarrassingly wimpy singer/songwriter affairs firstly by Sweet 's own humour and taste and secondly by the presence of some of the hippest musos in New York : Television 's famed guitarist Richard Lloyd , kd lang 's imaginative pedal steel player Greg Leisz , Lou Reed 's old skinbasher Fred Maher ( also producing ) and last , but not least , that elusive and exclusive Fender bender Mr. Robert Quine . |
| 6 | Alan Smith had joined the paper in 1962 from the local Liverpudlian press and had gained kudos/notoriety from being one of The Beatles ' early champions . |
| 7 | Apart from being one of the most widely read and influential books , it is also more enlightened than most of the published work getting through to teachers , health visitors , therapists and parents too . |
| 8 | And they 've caught up from being one of the most illiterate countries in Europe to on the edge of the leading group . |
| 9 | I remind the Minister that Gateshead is far from being one of Britain 's most prosperous towns . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | In less than 30 years , the British economy had declined from being one of the strongest to one of the weakest in Europe . |
| 12 | Apart from being one of the largest blue boats in years , it is also one of the youngest , with only one American he 's the boat club president , Mike Aspel . |