Example sentences of "to being a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You mean you went from being a university lecturer to being a tramp ? |
| 2 | Unless a writer is eligible to join the PRS as a publisher member ( in addition to being a songwriting member ) there is little point in setting up a new publishing company . |
| 3 | He was as near as dammit to being a stylistic carbon copy of Hell . |
| 4 | By then the product will have reverted to being a reasonable business again — but not in a glamorous way as in the first phase . |
| 5 | You were half-way to being a lady 's maid with these private patients and if they wanted you to paint their fingernails while they told you their life histories you could n't choose but obey . |
| 6 | In addition to being a family house it is Timothy 's working base for his painting and sculpture . |
| 7 | I must confess to being a ‘ convert about this matter . |
| 8 | ‘ I decided on four days because I reckoned that that 's as near to being a full-timer as you can be , while still gaining something significant for yourself . |
| 9 | Going back to fame , to your intimate knowledge of the processes of identification and obsession … having been through various manic fixations , you have progressed to being a star , the subject of fixation yourself . |
| 10 | Perhaps Lord Ashley-Cooper was so horrified that he moved to another property , for there is evidence that the Manor reverted to being a tenanted farmhouse and remained thus until it was sold by the Shaftesburys in 1912 to Colonel Canning . |
| 11 | No one attempted to rebuild it , and the house soon reverted to being a farmhouse , as which it appeared in the film of Thomas Hardy 's Far from the Madding Crowd . |
| 12 | This was critical , since it took the new tax from being a hybrid to being a loosely-disguised property tax . |
| 13 | Never again will they imagine that to be an administrator is to be superior to being a cleaner . |
| 14 | I have to admit to being a bit of a philistine where flower arranging is concerned . |
| 15 | What O'Neillism did for Paisleyism was to raise in a concrete way the possibility of change from being a Protestant society and culture ( constantly threatened by the old enemy within and without ) to being a secular modern society in which religious affiliation would be of little consequence . |
| 16 | I was looking forward to being a guest in Ireland for the first time , instead of merely a paying guest . |
| 17 | Whatever Aachen may have been in the past , it has settled down now to being a prosperous commercial town with few pretensions . |
| 18 | At some time in the 19th century it became a school , then reverted to being a private house , but was in a sadly neglected state when bought by Major and Mrs Anthony Burke in 1953 . |
| 19 | He 's admitted to being a Liberal ! ’ |
| 20 | You should aspire to being a specialist in the central nervous systems of business , which is what its accounts should depict . |
| 21 | So there may be a sort of shame attached to being a Tory , up to the last minute , when a different instinct intervenes . |
| 22 | Ross admits to being a little disappointed at the level of basic skills when he arrived , adding : ‘ A lot of the mistakes were down to the mental approach and lack of concentration , but , having said that , the attitude and determination of the players has been excellent throughout the season . ’ |
| 23 | Once you get accustomed to life on the range , it 's hard to go back to being a city slicker . |
| 24 | There is an enormous body of data in support of the theory and it is as close to being a factual representation of the nature of evolutionary change as any theory can be . |
| 25 | Following them was Kim Philby , who escaped to Moscow just ahead of MI5 in 1962 , and Anthony Blunt , who finally confessed in 1964 to being a long-time and important Russian spy only after having been granted immunity from prosecution . |
| 26 | The reality seemed to be adapting to being a mother felt like starting a new job without any training . |
| 27 | Some jews went in the opposite direction by expropriating a territory in Palestine ( on the grounds of an historical occupation ) to substantiate their claim to being a nation . |
| 28 | More , an orthodox chromosomal gene and a virus that is transmitted inside the host 's egg would agree in wanting the host to succeed not just in its courtship but in every detailed aspect of its life , down to being a loyal , doting parent and even grandparent . |
| 29 | There is now a social status attached to non-manual jobs , to being a two-car family and so on . |
| 30 | It reverted to being a draught animal in many places , losing its beef productivity , though in some areas its old milking abilities were encouraged and in due course the dairies of Cheshire came to rely on Longhorn milk for cheese-making ; from 1839 onwards Longhorns were frequently winning major beef prizes too , right through to the 1880s . |