Example sentences of "[being] [vb pp] from [art] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many flowers are under threat of extinction because their bulbs are being uprooted from the wild to be replanted in the gardens of countries like ours . |
| 2 | We in Scotland are also having an environmental row over the bridge being built from the mainland to the Isle of Skye . |
| 3 | Agreement is being sought from the Clerk to the Licensing Justices to have the condition included on the Justices Licence . |
| 4 | It then reverts to the A-Shau Valley in 1969 as 3rd Squad , 1st Platoon , Bravo Company , having sustained several casualties , are being airlifted from the fighting to a rest area . |
| 5 | Er in the context of bulk transfers would you like to comment on the Good Committees conclusions on the bulk transfers of members between schemes and how they operate , and do you think that er there is widespread abuse or do you think er on balance your experience has been that where bulk transfers have taken place , they have taken place responsibly , but I would in that context ask you to comment whether there has been an unreasonable time delay where you have experienced bank bulk transfers between the transfer actually taking place in terms of employees being transferred from an undertaking to another undertaking and the actual transfer of their pension funds . |
| 6 | Large industrial users can specify 180 litre drums ( the old 40 gallon drums ) with detergent being drawn from a tap to an intermediate container . |
| 7 | The grateful driver told the farmer that his cargo consisted of 47 foxes which were being transported from the Midlands to be let loose in Wales by order of the RSPCA . |
| 8 | Physics is interesting in having connotations of both : as a physical science , its discoveries ( and the skills it gives to its graduates ) have obvious uses for industry ; while its status as a ‘ pure ’ rather than an ‘ applied ’ science gives it the appearance of being removed from the uses to which it may be put . |