Example sentences of "[being] [vb pp] from one [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What could the sensation of his persona being sucked from one house of flesh and fitted , circuit by circuit , into another possibly feel like ? |
| 2 | An ‘ idea-meme ’ might be defined as an entity that is capable of being transmitted from one brain to another . |
| 3 | CRITICALLY ill patients are being moved from one hospital to another in a desperate search for hospital beds , a medical expert revealed yesterday . |
| 4 | Next , it might be said that although Locke was in the business of trying to explain communication in terms of ideas being conveyed from one mind to another , now we know better . |
| 5 | So having got back to Egypt ( and he was being harried from one end of the Western Desert to the other by Rommel ) Boyce found himself in a caravan which was his headquarters and also where he lived when he received an order to hare back as fast as possible to El Alamein . |
| 6 | Other ports dealt very much in the coastal trade ; if sea transport was expensive , land transport was prohibitively costly , and very slow , so that a number of small ports could flourish on goods being taken from one part of England to another . |
| 7 | His parents had been killed during the Berlin blitz and after being shunted from one set of foster parents to another he had run away at the end of the war . |
| 8 | Nevertheless , the Templars continued meeting in secret , each coven acting like a small community , the mysteries of the Order being passed from one generation to another . ’ |
| 9 | Though the system is quite helpful to divorcees , it does involve the assumption that women are a piece of property being passed from one man to another ! |
| 10 | However , in the process of being passed from one office to another Joyce was making contacts who might prove of some use . |
| 11 | Ken said he saw the play in the way he saw all comedy ‘ like a ball being thrown from one place to another ’ . |