Example sentences of "[vb past] from [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Simon Patiño , the family 's patriarch , who rose from being a clerk in a mining supplies store to owner of the largest known tin deposit , accrued revenues from the manufacture of nearly every tin can and piece of tin foil and was ultimately appointed a representative of the Bolivian government in Paris . |
| 2 | The tenement building we moved from is now gone ( as is the one we moved to ) , replaced by a row of council blocks of impressive ugliness , vintage early sixties . |
| 3 | A Thomas Coram Research Unit study , New Mothers At Work : Employment And Childcare , found , for example , a woman who moved from being an Executive Officer with the DSS to childminding , and another who moved from bank clerk to cleaner . |
| 4 | It moved from being a component in the domestic strategy for the conquest of power to the key element in the overthrow of world capitalism , founded now upon an alliance of European workers and the nationalist movements of Asia . |
| 5 | The United States may also be approaching the same conclusion , for between 1980 and 1988 it moved from being the world 's largest creditor to being its largest debtor . |
| 6 | By now denying that the arm's-length principle applies to national museums Lord Armstrong makes me wonder how he interpreted his new role when he moved from being Mrs Thatcher 's Cabinet Secretary to being her choice as Chairman of the V & A. If he saw himself as dutifully executing government policy over the V & A 's restructuring it is understandable that he did not subsequently feel constrained to resign , nor to dismiss his director , when it had become clear to the museum 's staff that the essence of the restructuring separation of research from ‘ object-management ’ had been abandoned as unworkable . |
| 7 | So clearly in this period the U K holidaymaker moved from being someone who primarily took their holidays in the U K very definitely into someone who was now taking their holidays abroad . |
| 8 | Culpeper was famous for his optical instruments , especially microscopes , but also known for a wide variety of mathematical instruments in silver , brass , ivory , and wood , although it is difficult to determine at what point he moved from being a maker to a retailer . |
| 9 | He was joined by a young Londoner , Jonathan Goodchild , who rapidly moved from being Sharp 's assistant to art director in his own right , leaving Sharp a clear run as perhaps the underground 's most innovative illustrator . |
| 10 | When it seemed that the sound and whatever it emanated from was about to overwhelm us , the engine and coaches of an express train appeared in the left-hand window and whizzed past a few feet from the front bumper . |
| 11 | She got a , I think she got a bit of a shock you know she actually probably thought she was better than she was and a lot of people had been giving her a lot of pats on the back and I tell you where half of that emanated from was down the corridor . |
| 12 | Given the conception we have , are mental events as we have conceived them excluded from being physical ? |
| 13 | Note : The specification of loose coupling relations will not stop the module referenced from being changed or set to hard copy only . |
| 14 | Anyway , that was the theory about her disappearance and it changed from being a theory to being referred to as what had probably happened and then later still it was accepted . |
| 15 | Each time she made a decision to keep away from birds , she was in fact reinforcing and enlarging the fear in her own mind , so that she changed from being someone who simply did not like birds to becoming a person who would actually consider spending the rest of her life within her own four walls rather than risk encountering a few sparrows in her path . |
| 16 | Between 1982 and 1986 it changed from being described as an uncommon parasite to the most common parasite identified and over 11000 cases were reported between 1985 and 1988 . |
| 17 | He changed from being a nice lad into being violent . |
| 18 | It is the portrait of a brash , insensitive but privately vulnerable man , who suffered from being portrayed as the comic perpetrator of ‘ Goldwynisms ’ : ‘ the public stayed away in droves ’ , ‘ include me out ’ , and many more , many apocryphal . |
| 19 | As his judgement suffered in his calmer moments from overconfidence , so in his energetic ones it suffered from being too headlong . |
| 20 | Lyall 's more obliquely modernist approach to harmony was less readily integrated , while the piano suffered from being too low in the sound-mix . |
| 21 | The two decisions appealed from are , first , that of Potts J. in B. v. Islington Health Authority [ 1991 ] 1 Q.B . |
| 22 | After one year working with the company , as part of Strathclyde University 's Teaching Company Associate Scheme , Rhona Johnstone transferred from being on the staff of the University to join the Marketing Department and continue her job in market research . |
| 23 | Laughter is the same language the world over , and the sense of pride and group identity which is engendered when a group tells another about who it is and where they came from is a critical factor in the cementation of the group and fostering of indigenous skills . |
| 24 | Putting data into a spreadsheet is simplicity itself , but remembering where that data came from is another matter . |
| 25 | Some of Hugh Bishop 's confidence came from being a countryman from a secure Shropshire home , safe among those ‘ blue remembered hills ’ . |
| 26 | I wanted to carry on as an airborne soldier , a paratrooper , enjoying the prestige which came from being part of an elite , and also the better pay and training opportunities that were the lot of such units . |
| 27 | Because he had learnt to face all kinds of circumstances with the strength that came from being in close fellowship with God . |
| 28 | Mrs Thatcher turned from being the least popular Prime Minister of modern times to becoming an Iron Britannia , a new Boadicea , the very embodiment of toughness , triumph , and grim resolve . |
| 29 | But it was to be a short-lived glory ; with his death the Bretwalda -ship passed elsewhere , and Sussex reverted from being prime among Saxon kingdoms to a minor position , on the periphery of the long-drawn-out struggle for national leadership between the rulers of Northumbria , Mercia and Wessex . |
| 30 | Leonard himself was enthused to make his own music , an inspiration which developed from being induced to learn the piano as a young boy with Miss McDougall , in which he said that neither he nor his sister made any headway . |