Example sentences of "[pers pn] to [being] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Smoking is bad news from every direction — from being damaging to your health and the health of those around you to being smelly and totally antisocial . |
| 2 | These examples will not immediately take you to being chairperson of ICI but they will give you personally , as well as potential employers , a more positive image of you as a candidate in an interview . |
| 3 | Rough was lucky to miss out on one of Scottish football 's most infamous scandals , when he missed the taxi that whisked five if his international team-mates to the notorious bender in Copenhagen which led them to being banned for life . |
| 4 | My father felt that his lack of poise and connections had led him to being passed over in favor of people of less ability but more social graces . |
| 5 | Faced with arguably the most reactionary piece of legislation this century , with its major implications for basic civil liberties and education , not to mention lesbians and gay men , Labour reduced it to being for or against the ‘ promotion ’ of homosexuality . |
| 6 | In my diary I recognised it almost from the beginning , probably because I made no connection between it and non-eating , but seemed to have ascribed it to being overworked academically or being hounded into sporting activities which I resented for their profound pointlessness . |
| 7 | She held the letter over the basket , ready to consign it to being thrown away , and then at the last minute snatched it back and put in in her desk . |
| 8 | It has been our experience that our car service patients like and appreciate the service they receive , and actually prefer it to being carried by ambulance . |
| 9 | Now people start getting very involved with this cos squared and integrating it to being cos cubed . |