Example sentences of "to being [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am worried that many students may convert to being part time rather than full time , simply because they can not afford to be full-time students . |
| 2 | In the case of Letitia , who had married an Irish baronet , Sir Thomas Wyse , her refusal to accept the Emperor 's decision that she confine herself to being Lady Wyse , dropping all imperial pretensions by calling herself Bonaparte Wyse , led to her being expelled from France . |
| 3 | N E H I , that 's close to being N E I which is a big company in N E I Parsons . |
| 4 | It would have been hard for the toughest , most stable and secure character to stand up to being dream symbol to the world . |
| 5 | Robin Leigh-Pemberton , who has a full-time job as Governor of the Bank of England in addition to being Lord Lieutenant of Kent , sits on an estate of 2,400 acres . |
| 6 | He faxes me , not to own up to being Clark Kent , but to draw attention to the fact that he is giving his surplus Y-fronts to Mary Loudon ( author of Nuns Unveiled , Chatto it says here ) for onward transmission to the homeless . |
| 7 | He undergoes a personality change , from being just ‘ one of the others ’ at home in Yorkshire , to being show jumping 's superstar . |
| 8 | This posture always made me suspect him of having a horizontal cleft slicing through his buttocks , betokening a random — but adaptive — mutation , taking humans closer to being office furniture . |
| 9 | At Midland , we are committed to being market leaders in the provision of quality money transmission services . |
| 10 | In addition to being Microsoft Corp 's front-line defence against the forces of Sun Microsystems Inc WABI binary interface for Windows applications under Unix , and providing the MS-DOS and Windows emulator on most other vendors ' Unix machines , Insignia last week became one of only 12 companies to get on Apple Computer Inc 's ‘ Inside Track ’ programme . |
| 11 | In addition to being Microsoft Corp 's front-line defence against the forces of WABI and being the MS-DOS/Windows emulator on practically everyone else 's box , Insignia last week became one of only 12 companies to get on Apple Computer Inc 's ‘ Inside Track ’ programme . |
| 12 | The Mesquite main strip aspires to being Las Vegas without anything like the money or the reputation . |
| 13 | Except Tony says I can return to being Security manager . |