Example sentences of "[verb] to [being] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Interestingly non-smoking and non-drinking were cited by many fewer respondents as contributing to being healthy . |
| 2 | ‘ Would Luke object to being dog-sat ? ’ |
| 3 | The health authority is entitled to object and does object to being subject to an order of the court with penal consequences in the event of disobedience when it does not know precisely what is required of it . |
| 4 | Fred Crocombe went on to work for Boulton Paul Aircraft , and often reflected on how close he came to being one of those many aviator 's lost mysteriously without a trace over the wide expanse of the sea . |
| 5 | It was a fair enough question , and when it came to being fair Fabia endorsed that she owed him this particular explanation . |
| 6 | People vary in their ability to revert to being outgoing , social creatures after a long time of semi-confinement to the house . |
| 7 | He had explained that , ‘ Mrs Miller is a woman not used to being idle and will sweep clean through the house with fearsome enthusiasm if she is n't watched . |
| 8 | Over and above the residual discomfort of managers used to being able to see bodies in seats around the office and to address them face-to-face , the teleworkers themselves can feel similarly cut off . |
| 9 | I confess to being sceptical about the whole enterprise , but readers who agree with Hughes that we need a drama that blends the sacred with the secular , on the model of the best Greek tragedies , may feel differently . |
| 10 | ‘ We need to uphold the growing reputation of British rugby , ’ said Rob Andrew , who would confess to being third-choice captain ( after Finlay Calder 's non-availability and Donal Lenihan 's withdrawal ) . |
| 11 | Thus a nursery nurse will confess to being ignorant and fearful of a certain handicap while demonstrating competence and confidence in dealing with a child who has tantrums or is language-delayed . |
| 12 | Changing from being employed to being self-employed , it 's , it 's a big change that is you and er , and er the union the union helped me and er told me what I could do and what I could n't do and all that sort of thing . |
| 13 | You can see , therefore , that when hypnosis is compared to being asleep , nothing could be further from the truth . |
| 14 | In the present case the poles of are from equation ( 12.4 ) simply and rejecting the pole the procedure for finding yields This being the physically realisable transfer function , in it is restricted to being imaginary and , checking back , when expression ( 12.6 ) is indeed the transfer function in agreement with equation ( 12.3 ) . |
| 15 | In an age when totems and taboos are reduced to being another manifestation of Freudian symbols , where stands the homosexual ? |
| 16 | When ninety-five per cent of the population of the Republic professes to being Roman Catholic , the Catholic Church does not need a constitutional commitment to dominate moral and social legislation . |
| 17 | Eurodollars can be used to cover transactions inside the US , at which point they cease to be Eurodollars and revert to being ordinary , domestic US$ again . |
| 18 | And if men revert to being masculine , the Hic Mulier figure continues , women will once again become feminine and subordinate . |
| 19 | She was sixty-five years old and confessed to being fifty . |
| 20 | The corporate finance unit at house broker Smith New Court confessed to being ignorant as to what was going on . |
| 21 | The princess confessed to being worried for his safety during the Gulf War . |
| 22 | Mandy 's candour took him completely by surprise , and it was obvious he was not a man accustomed to being surprised . |
| 23 | If you 've got a school where there are weak teachers then you do n't want to being weak . |
| 24 | In this sense it aspires to being context-free . |
| 25 | And he frankly admitted to being obsessed with her sex — some of the talk she 'd heard was of cradle-snatching ; some of death-bed fucks — he played no favourites . |
| 26 | It was just as well Devoy clinched the issue in three games , for she admitted to being tired . |
| 27 | For instance , the forms of masculinity among the working class lay more emphasis on physical prowess , than those of the middle classes , where appropriate career is more important because masculine status is limited to being successful as husband-father breadwinner . |
| 28 | How can women who have been taught that their choice in sexual relations is passive , limited to being able to say yes or no when approached by a man , be expected to make a sudden leap into active love-making where their desire is acknowledged , and their pleasure is a definite goal ? |
| 29 | Just to invoke God 's name for what one chooses to do is no guarantee whatever that the thought , word or action really is God 's will , or is creative and positive as opposed to being destructive and negative . |
| 30 | " … a guide for the medical practitioners of both tropical and temperate regions to the origins and diagnosis of infections that are tropical as opposed to being cosmopolitan , and of great value for training and teaching because it reproduces much better and more comprehensively than is possible with ordinary textbooks the appearance of specimens that will be examined … has been prepared with great care and deserves to remain one of the standard texts in the subject for many years . " |