Example sentences of "[vb -s] to [being] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | In this sense it aspires to being context-free . |
| 3 | He suggests that this maladaptive strategy helps to explain the traumatic neuroses which sometimes follow events like bereavement , and which can be contrasted with successful adjustment in which the individual works through grief triggered by indirect reminders and gradually progresses to being able to respond to stronger reminders of the deceased . |
| 4 | And none of us admits to being alive when all this happened , we , that goes without saying . |
| 5 | He admits to being nervous because it was the first time this kind of operation was carried out . |
| 6 | A software engineer who freely admits to being plump and has tried every diet in the book claims to have invented a programme that 's guaranteed to keep those extra pounds off . |
| 7 | In a previous book , King of the Confessors , Hoving admits to being able to ‘ lie convincingly without any hesitation ’ . |
| 8 | Now he freely admits to being gay and to having had a stable , loving relationship with another man . |
| 9 | Naturally , however , the more partial the ordering imposed by the proposing process , the closer a consultative approach comes to being democratic . |
| 10 | When it comes to being selfish then you 're top of the league . |
| 11 | ‘ Davey may be younger and faster than me , but when it comes to being smart , there 's no contest . ’ |
| 12 | She watched him in reluctant fascination as he put to her , ‘ When it comes to being irresponsible , your brother , I 'm afraid , has already proved himself to be in the top league . ’ |
| 13 | Men are babies when it comes to being ill . |
| 14 | Martin Katahn confirms that ‘ it 's the fat in your diet that makes you fat … when it comes to being fat and overweight , it 's primarily the fat calories that count , not the carbohydrate and protein calories ’ ( T-Factor Diet ) . |
| 15 | In America of course the privilege runs to being able to shoot on sight . |