Example sentences of "[being] [vb pp] from [noun prp] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then the prime minister 's Tristar jet was buffeted by freak 200-mile-an-hour winds before being diverted from Ottawa to Montreal due to fog . |
| 2 | Beneath them is a freshly lettered gravestone being carried from Sedbergh to Hawes : |
| 3 | Evaristo Porras Ardila , linked to the powerful Medellin cocaine cartel , was being held in the south-western city of Pasto after being deported from Ecuador on Sunday night . |
| 4 | The Customs and Excise Department is being moved from London to Liverpool , with the new office housing 1,800 staff . |
| 5 | The prisoner , who is serving a five year sentence for burglary was being moved from Dartmoor to Bullingdon Prison in Oxfordshire . |
| 6 | There are accounts of dogs of Mastiff type being exported from Britain to Rome through an agent known as the Procurator Pugnacium ( provider of dogs ) . |
| 7 | French farmers recently sought to protect their markets by setting fire to a lorry load of live sheep being exported from Britain for slaughter in an abbattoir in mid-France . |
| 8 | So there are two records being achieved here with the operation of ‘ The Sarum ’ being hauled from Waterloo to Salisbury and back on Friday , February 5th . |
| 9 | He was now being repatriated from Germany via Britain , and had come to Edinburgh to visit his aunt , my mother-in-law . |
| 10 | Mohammed Siyad Barre fled to Kenya on April 29 after forces of the United Somali Congress ( USC ) captured the south-western town of Garbaharrey where the former President had been living since being ousted from Mogadishu in January 1991 [ see pp. 37946-47 ] . |
| 11 | Elizabeth of Spalbeck imitated the Passion of Christ at the Canonical Hours : at Matins , beating herself as she remembered Christ being taken with swords and staves ; at Prime , walking with arms twisted behind her back like a bound thief to commemorate Christ being led from Caiaphas to Pilate and then Herod ; at Sext , None and Evensong , stretching herself in a cruciform posture . |
| 12 | The snazzy looking range of Cap Horn sailing yacht performance instruments is now being imported from France by Burmarc Ltd . |
| 13 | Yes , there 's the er sweat rag as you call it being tossed from DeFreitas to Lawrence who , as he dries his hands rather like a towel . |