Example sentences of "to [being] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The status of comedy is crucial to the debate , and we can at least be sure that Kingsley Amis would not object to having his practice compared with Waugh 's , or to being placed with him among the monologists of the Right . |
| 2 | On the whole , acting in isolation is a peculiar feature of the audition system , which is why the pieces you choose in either the classic or modern text need to be reasonably well contained and lend themselves to being performed as a one man show . |
| 3 | Perhaps that is why I 'm not all that much attached to being part of a permanent company for too long — I get bored by being around in one place for too long . |
| 4 | The advice from the group once again raised the sensitive issue of employing staff who admit to being , or are discovered to be infected . |
| 5 | Bill , the first footman , who had nothing to tell him , said his foot itched to kick him up the b.t.m. , while Mary said she felt she was being taken by one of those continental gigolos to the Strand Corner House , as a preliminary to being seduced . |
| 6 | From being a peripheral figure for most of my working life , I now had to adjust to being on centre stage . |
| 7 | They had become my friends and there was no way that I would now go back to being their problem dependant . |
| 8 | ‘ You mean you went from being a university lecturer to being a tramp ? |
| 9 | I was close to being ‘ one of them ’ and definitely ‘ not one of us ’ because of an acquired list of significant differences . |
| 10 | So one is left with the impossible task of explaining why a perfectly respectable causal chain should ‘ go mental ’ for a while and then , recovering its non-senses , should return to being purely physical . |
| 11 | Here , Moby could acquire basic social and communication skills with other dogs , get used to being handled by many different people and Jenny could show Moby and the Hurseys how to start a course of basic obedience training . |
| 12 | But the Raskolnikov of the notebooks who joked grimly about getting used to being married and having children will do that average and earthy thing , though in a different spirit ; and in another story , as the Epilogue tells us . |
| 13 | When Scholes writes that ‘ no text is so trivial as to be outside the bounds of humanistic study ’ , I am reminded of C. S. Lewis 's argument that any piece of writing has a claim to being literary if someone can read it in a ‘ literary ’ — i.e. an absorbed , attentive , loving — fashion . |
| 14 | Arthur Golding 's translation of Ovid 's Metamorphoses may not yet be ‘ canonical ’ ; but it is a lot nearer to being so because Pound campaigned for it . |
| 15 | ‘ I have progressed from being an underpaid woman worker to being an underpaid pensioner . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ 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 ) . |
| 17 | We 're used to being told dark secrets about dead artists , but suddenly it 's open season on twentieth century public figures . |
| 18 | The nearest to being quenching is the ‘ white ’ beer of Berlin . |
| 19 | SOCRATES and Plato may be unlikely corner men for an aspiring heavyweight champion , but Lennox Lewis , the man reluctantly carrying the tag of the next Frank Bruno , is a lover of philosophy , and admits to being ‘ one of those deep-thinking kind of guys ’ . |
| 20 | He has miraculously survived all this , and even being education secretary , but how would he measure up to being chairman , in a party where , in times of stress , to be party chairman is a greater thing than to be a secretary of state ? |
| 21 | The Safety Authority said last night that Mr Bailey was a Department of Transport official , in addition to being secretary to the authority . |
| 22 | Healey is , of course , the man who likened an attack by Sir Geoffrey Howe to being savaged by a dead sheep , and his one-liners are terrific . |
| 23 | As the Doctrine Commission puts it , ‘ He exposes Himself to being acted upon and , in that sense , being compelled to change . ’ |
| 24 | England won comfortably enough , as indeed they ought to have done against a team containing 10 players whose ages ranged between 16 and 21 , and one - Madan Lal — who lays claim to being 38 , despite the strong suspicion that ( were he as famous as Nehru ) the Centenary Trophy could just as easily have been named after him . |
| 25 | In one terrifying episode , Mrs Thatcher and her ministers came close to being collectively murdered in the bombing of the Grand Hotel , Brighton , in October 1984 . |
| 26 | He widened the faculty from being Anglican to being for all denominations . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | And if men revert to being masculine , the Hic Mulier figure continues , women will once again become feminine and subordinate . |
| 29 | Clara switches from being aggressive to being acquiescent and Lucio does the reverse . |
| 30 | I owned to being the coward , traitor , thief and fairy they saw in me . |