Example sentences of "start being " in BNC.
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| 1 | TOM : Well , is there a time when Big Tree stops being a plant and starts being a tree ? |
| 2 | If he starts being really difficult and kicking at the partitions we sometimes have to put hobbles on him . |
| 3 | After April 1988 , they will have to increase GMP built up in future years by 3 per cent a year , once it starts being paid . |
| 4 | then the , the main problem is rent because presumably it all , all starts being creamed off the top so , okay you do n't have to redistribute land , but you can still get rid of the landlords and the people who are erm taking away the surplus |
| 5 | She ru she , she does her own work she starts being |
| 6 | ‘ Brenda does n't know , ’ said Wendy , ‘ but apparently poor Margot started being sick about one o'clock in the morning and then had a most frightful pain in her tummy . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I started being a prime minister at the age of 53 . |
| 8 | Marks and Spencer started being nice to its employees , customers , suppliers and neighbours decades before it was fashionable to do so . |
| 9 | I began to get nervous when these new fluorescent vehicles started being referred to as ‘ mountain' bikes . |
| 10 | Giles-the-murderer , who had been in the coffee shop , strolled along into the mêlée and started being frightfully nice to old ladies . |
| 11 | Sometimes Shadwell came in to watch the show , and one day he started being nice to me . |
| 12 | But then it started being written about in magazines and newspapers in America and England , and the ‘ Voice of America ’ and West German radio did some broadcasts on it . |
| 13 | Ever since the heroes in women 's magazine stories started being advertising executives , advertising has been considered a " glamour " job . |
| 14 | He started being sickeningly ingratiating , but I felt from the start he was gliding towards insult . |
| 15 | With the help of a friend Lucy stopped crying and started being angry . |
| 16 | This would always give Felix a cheeky look , even when he stopped being a black kid and started being a black man . |
| 17 | PC World chairman Jan Murray reckons it was only a matter of time before PCs lost their premium product status and started being treated like any other commodity item . |
| 18 | Berni 's problems began , he believes , when they started being influenced by marketing and introducing themes to the properties and designing the menus to match . |
| 19 | It was when they started being invited out for dinner , or going to restaurants for special occasions , that she remembered he knew about different kinds of food . |
| 20 | If she started being funny saying oh I got honours and you got commended just say yeah let's see what you get at grade three tap then . |
| 21 | she goes , she started being a cocky little bitch , she 's only fucking nineteen |
| 22 | she started being a cocky little bitch , and she wears make- up , really plasters it on |
| 23 | ‘ We have to start being meaner at the back . |
| 24 | ‘ We 've got to start being a bit meaner on the pitch and we 've got to do it now . |
| 25 | He kissed me ; it was intended to be a sealing sort of kiss to show me that he believed me and that things were going to start being all right , but the kiss altered in the middle and suddenly he pulled himself away . |
| 26 | You 've got to start being a good boy now . |
| 27 | Now , what you 've got to do , the one thing you really have got to do is to , is is to start being critical of yourselves and well look , am I doing anything wrong here ? |
| 28 | You 'll have to start being a lot tidier . |
| 29 | ‘ We seek the power in order to do all that , to stop being spectators and start being negotiators , to take our country off the sidelines and put it in the mainstream of advance where it should rightly be . |
| 30 | Investors from outside the European Community are not allowed to subscribe , and there is strong demand from Japan to buy in the French market once shares start being traded . |