Example sentences of "change from [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | He changed from being a nice lad into being violent . |
| 5 | As Macdonald points out , some subjects change from being viewed as ‘ masculine ’ to being viewed as ‘ feminine ’ , and vice versa ; she argues that this is partly the result of ‘ pressures exerted on the school and universities by the changing pattern of employment of men and women in the labour force ’ . |
| 6 | For example , there are dual currency bonds , where the coupon payments are in one currency and the redemption proceeds are in another ; currency change bonds , where coupons are first paid in one currency and then in another ; deferred coupon bonds , where there is a delay in the payment of the first coupon ; multiple coupon bonds , where the coupon payments change over the life of the bond ( although in a predetermined manner ) , fixed-then-floating bonds , where the coupons change from being fixed rate to floating rate ; floating-then-zero bonds , where the bonds change from being floating-rate coupon bonds to zero-coupon bonds ; and missing coupon bonds , where a coupon payment is missed whenever a dividend payment on the issuing corporation 's shares are missed . |
| 7 | For example , there are dual currency bonds , where the coupon payments are in one currency and the redemption proceeds are in another ; currency change bonds , where coupons are first paid in one currency and then in another ; deferred coupon bonds , where there is a delay in the payment of the first coupon ; multiple coupon bonds , where the coupon payments change over the life of the bond ( although in a predetermined manner ) , fixed-then-floating bonds , where the coupons change from being fixed rate to floating rate ; floating-then-zero bonds , where the bonds change from being floating-rate coupon bonds to zero-coupon bonds ; and missing coupon bonds , where a coupon payment is missed whenever a dividend payment on the issuing corporation 's shares are missed . |
| 8 | We might turn away from our own particular church — we might go through a period of not knowing what we believe in — we might change from being a Catholic to a Buddhist or from a Jehovah 's Witness to an Anglican ; but , no matter how many times we reject religion , we know it will never reject us . |
| 9 | First , as a general point , an industry may change from being a natural monopoly not only through changes in underlying technology but also through changes in demand . |
| 10 | When , however , this breaks down , goods can change from being relatively static symbols to being more directly constitutive of social status . |
| 11 | Public debt as a proportion of GDP is already rising steeply ; and if this is allowed to go unchecked , Britain would quickly change from being a low debt to a high debt country with a burden of interest payments which would have serious implications for future levels of taxation . |
| 12 | Public debt as a proportion of GDP is already rising steeply ; and if this is allowed to go unchecked , Britain would quickly change from being a low debt to a high debt country with a burden of interest payments which would have serious implications for future levels of taxation . |
| 13 | Hair sometimes changes from being dry to becoming greasy at this age but as likely as not will revert later to its usual condition . |
| 14 | It changes from being a cost centre to a profit centre , and this should stimulate management to aim for better performance and should provide increased job satisfaction . |
| 15 | Industry is changing from being labour intensive to being capital intensive . |
| 16 | He believes the ‘ crisis ’ in the computer industry stems from the market changing from being technology-driven to customer-driven . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Local authorities are changing from being direct providers of services to enablers . |
| 19 | It took less than two years for the computer to change from being perceived as a threat and as something only big businesses would use to something one buys for doing income tax . |
| 20 | The arts can have a liberating effect on people , encouraging them to change from being passive and dependent to being creative and active . |
| 21 | Just as the snack has changed from being a national joke into a respected billion pound industry almost overnight , so the most humble sector of the hospitality industry is on course to become the high-flier of the 1990s . |
| 22 | Like King Arthur of the Britons , Charles the Great , Caroli Magni , changed from being a historical person into a legendary ideal — the great ruler who set the world aright , and encouraged men and women to live by a fusion of spiritual and material principles . |
| 23 | Like everyone else , I became equally at home with both systems , and I was doubly fortunate in that while I was still a student the metric system changed from being ‘ cgs ’ based ( centimetres , grams , seconds ) to ‘ MKS ’ based ( Metres , Kilograms , Seconds ) . |
| 24 | After a while skateboarding changed from being something you do to being everything . |
| 25 | Llanberis has changed from being a slate quarrying town to being a tourist centre . |
| 26 | Taphonomy is the study of all processes affecting bones as they become changed from being parts of living animals to being preserved as fossils . |
| 27 | By the time it published the first issue of its bulletin , STOP , in February 1980 the DUC had effectively changed from being an information and research group into an opposition group , as the bulletin made clear : ‘ After investigation into the hazards related to uranium and its by-products , the DUC feels that since uranium can not be mined safely , exploration should cease . ’ |
| 28 | The headquarters of the GLC , the great pile of County Hall , changed from being a tedious and unloved administrative centre to become the Right-On rival to the House of Commons directly across the River Thames . |
| 29 | So our perception of the nature of time changed from being independent of the universe to being shaped by it . |
| 30 | That is to say that a word in bold in your word processor file should still be bold when it gets onto the page , even though it has changed from being monospaced typescript to a real typeface and may be in a different size altogether . |