Example sentences of "[being] [vb pp] from a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only then will many of the educational tasks now being approached from a quasi-managerial perspective become the focus of properly professional processes . |
| 2 | A group of naturalists from Evesham in Worcestershire are back home after being rescued from a tiny island in the Bristol Channel . |
| 3 | BRITISH children are believed to be among 160 being held in care today after being rescued from a religious sex cult in Argentina . |
| 4 | They claim some 10-20pc of Britain 's electricity could be wind-generated in the long term and say every kilowatt of electricity produced in this way saves around a kilogram of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide being emitted from a coal-fired power station . |
| 5 | MORE than 200 young dancers are expected to join a protest outside the BBC Television Centre in west London on Sunday after being dropped from a major TV tribute to the Queen . |
| 6 | According to Heinrich Harrer axes are being made from a jade-like stone in central New Guinea today . |
| 7 | A CONVICTED rapist carried out another sex attack months after being freed from a 14-year jail sentence . |
| 8 | Wrapped in the adulation which expressed the country 's relief at being saved from a constitutional crisis , Baldwin went down to Astley in December . |
| 9 | He has been sitting on a nurse 's knee being fed from a small drinking cup . ’ |
| 10 | The Comintern policy was applied in Britain on the theoretical grounds that the Labour Party had ceased to be a federation and that " the Labour Party was in the process of being transformed from a federal organisation to a party of the social democratic type " . |
| 11 | I was being dragged from a double bed , a dog lead lassoed around my neck , its thong being pulled by a hand with scarlet-painted fingernails . |
| 12 | It has been argued that the limited success of children in referential communication tasks is due to a large extent to the tasks being extracted from a meaningful framework . |
| 13 | The media corps were not dressed much better as they tossed on whatever was nearest after being woken from a deep sleep . |
| 14 | That was why I found myself being winched from a bobbing dinghy during a piece about RAF pilots on survival training off the North Devon coast . |
| 15 | The party was short of funds ; and it was still being run from a tiny office with just four paid staff . |
| 16 | A system of rotation was used for this crop , with coppices being taken from a different part of the wood each year . |
| 17 | In the shadow of their ancestors , right wing Afrikaaners muster to protest at their governments so-called betrayal of the white man , but the man responsible , President F W de Klerk , was himself being welcomed from a successful tour of Europe , where he said ‘ South Africa 's commitment to reform was believed ’ . |
| 18 | This is best explained by reference to the diagram , topsoil being removed from a small area at a time and the chalk quarried down to the new level . |
| 19 | We have not asked for contributions from the voluntary sector in the past as the Newsletter was viewed more as a vehicle to let staff and others know about how Community Care was being implemented from a Social Work Department perspective . |
| 20 | The data base of the project is being constructed from a wide range of sources , including reports , documentation on the development of the Political Studies Association , and interviews with early members of the association . |
| 21 | There is a 65-member Chamber of Deputies , most recently elected for a term of five years in April 1987 [ see p. 35180 ] , all candidates being elected from a single list put forward by the Popular Rally for Progress ( Rassemblement populaire pour le progrès — RPP ) , since October 1981 the sole legal party . |
| 22 | One monkey , a female called Gena , ripped off her own tail after being returned from a dental research project at Guy 's Hospital in London . |